Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
I agree it shouldn't have been sold! I cannot think that the need for student accommodation has gone down at all! Plus I am constantly bombarded by requests for donations for this and that from the Uni so I wonder what they did with the money!

But as to its photo fame - who can forget its appearance in the opening sequence of Chariots of Fire even though they were trying to pass it off as a hotel in Broadstairs!

I guess most residences are now co-ed so to speak - I well remember how lady visitors had to leave on the stroke of midnight or else!

I had an academic daughter girlfriend too - but I was also an academic polygamist several times over!
Worse still all the new accomodation the Uni builds tends to be pretty expensive, even halls they re-open like Hepburn.

I worked as a sort of scullery maid in Hamilton for a while and one of the chefs was an extra in that famous chariots scene!

My first girlfriend happened to be the academic mother of a lot of my friends, which earnt me some colourful nicknames! :P I had a really nice bunch of kids, many of whom i keep in contact with now. I only dated one of them (honest!) and I have two academic wives. Funnily enough my bilogical sister is my academic grand-daughter!

I wouldn't be surprised if were related in some distant way McClef!