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In one corner of the university campus is a granite monument. The plaque on it reads: This monument was unveiled by Professor John Garside, Vice Chancellor, on the 8 September 2004 to commemorate 180 years of educational excellence at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). It also heralds the beginning of a new era of higher education in this City, with the establishment of The University of Manchester on the 1 October 2004.

With an "uncompromising frame of big squares and four storeys". By Thomas Worthington, 1960, and extended in 1968. Built for the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology and now used as a conference centre. In front is a stone monument (roughly central) unveiled in 2004 to "commemorate 180 years of educational excellence at UMIST". It was unveiled less than a month before UMIST merged with the University of Manchester.

The Barnes Wallis Building is in the foreground, the Renold Building is beyond. Viewed from Altrincham Street. See also Image

The red structure is the remains of Manchester's Havelock Cotton Mill. The cast iron construction marks the transition from craft design to engineering designs based on calculation. It is preserved in the grounds of the University of Manchester on the former Institute of Science & Technology campus. The building in the background is the Barnes Wallis building named after the inventor of variable geometry (swing wing) aircraft and the "Bouncing Bomb" who studied here.

The red structure is the remains of Manchester's Havelock Cotton Mill. The cast iron construction marks the transition from craft design to engineering designs based on calculation. It is preserved in the grounds of the University of Manchester on the former Institute of Science & Technology campus.

The red structure is the remains of Manchester’s Havelock Cotton Mill the cast iron construction marks the transition from craft design to engineering designs based on calculation. It is preserved in the grounds of the University of Manchester on the former Institute of Science & Technology campus. The building in the background on the right is the Barnes Wallis building named after the inventor of variable geometry (swing wing) aircraft and the "Bouncing Bomb" who studied here as did the designer of the Lancaster Bomber Roy Chadwick.

Built to provide student recreational and administrative facilities, as well as a hall of residence (Wright Robinson Hall) in the tower section. The former section is now given over to student workspaces. In January 2021 the Guardian newspaper highlighted this as a key building of the brutalist period threatened with demolition. See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis_Building for more information.

In one corner of the university campus is this field of daffodils. A nearby sign reads: A Marie Curie 'Field of Hope' Planted November 2002 with donations from UMIST Staff and Students At present they all seem to be in bud.