UEL, Stratford
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UEL, Stratford
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 7 Jan 2011
A building that has gone through various educational ownerships; it opened in 1898 as West Ham Technical Institute, and became West Ham College of Technology in 1921. It amalgamated with the South East Essex Technical College in Barking in 1970 to become North-East London Polytechnic, renamed Polytechnic of East London in 1989. In 1992 that turned into the University of East London. Can you still do the same courses as six name changes and a hundred years ago? Just to really confuse things, in the evenings it magically turns into Birkbeck College, part of the University of London, as an element of a partnership http://www.bbk.ac.uk/prospective/stratford/ . The nearer part of the building has long served as the library.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.54326
Longitude
0.009253