Way cool! Some very valid points! I appreciate you writing this post and the rest of the website is very good.

Great work brings back many memories 70-73

Wow! I was at Shoreditch from ’73 to ’77. The wonderful photography on this site has made me very nostalgic! Thank you.

Wow, brings back lots of excellent memories from my 3 years at the ‘Ditch’ 1962-65. The Dining Hall hadn’t been completed when I was first there and meals were served in the Main Building.

Thanks so much for the effort, a wonderful trip back in time. Thought you might like to see these pictures taken by Jon Osborne on a trip back in 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonno101/sets/72157623762148926/

Very sad to see it in an even worse state, incredible what can happen in just two years of neglect.

Guy

Awesome site, bringing back happy memories of my four years there (1991-1995) and all the good times with good friends. Thanks for putting this site together. PC

Hi Tom,

Great work on the site, you’ve done a really good job

From reading your comments its good to see that the campus and Brunel University life had the same meaningful and postive impact on you as they did on me and my friends – and I dare say a lot of other people who attended too

Fantastic site guys, just sad that the images are of Runnymede in its “carcass-like” state, not its glory days. Seeing the union, mews and workshops all barricaded up brings a tear to my eye – what a waste!!!

All brings back the memories though. Would be great to have a separate section where old runnymede residents could upload their own photos of the campus in its prime and link then to exactly where the image was taken on the map/aerial view. I’m sure I have lots.

Brunel Design is/was never the same after the move. It could and should have been the next Bauhaus.

Keep up the good work!

Hi,

I bumped into Les at a conference yesterday and he emailed the link to this. Great stuff and clearly a labour of love!

I was at Runnymede between ’93 and ’97 (Marshall for 3 years and College for 1) and a group of us had a impromptu reunion ten years later, managing to sneak in a look around as they gradually ripped out all the internals of all the workshops…rather poignant. I’ve got some pics I took that day if you are interested.

I’ll circulate on FB now. I know there will be a few people who will be keen to see this.

Thanks,

Russell

I remember some life changing experiences while at ditch . . 76 yr . . such a fantastic place and looking back a tremendous priveledge to be there. Even looking through the guest book triggers memories I had thought I’d lost. Lived on Reed 200 with some of the football boys, went on tour to Bensburg and remember how feircely competetive it all was to get into first team. Now coming in for retirement after 34 years of working at the same school in Maidenhead, currently working with Mark Goodman another ditch old boy of 79 year I believe. Thanks to Gary Nichols for this link.