{"id":6,"date":"2009-12-08T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6"},"modified":"2019-10-06T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:14:30","slug":"southside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/southside\/","title":{"rendered":"Places: Southside 1963-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Southside Royal opening in the Upper Refectory 1963<\/span>
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For this first blog entry we\u2019re going to focus on places and in this case, Southside. The Southside halls were opened on 8 October 1963 with a Royal ceremony with Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden in attendance. Due to the forward thinking of past members of staff the whole thing was audio recorded and then transferred to an acetate disc. Things like this are held in the main archive and recently I transferred it from the disc into a digital format. On the right is a photo of the process happening a few months ago.<\/p>\n

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SOUTHSIDE OPENING 1963<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Click the link above to listen to what was said and because this is audio only I\u2019ve included some photos taken during the ceremony rather than leaving you with a blank screen. The whole thing runs for about 20 minutes and you can skip forward if you so wish.<\/p>\n

In 2005 the lifetime of the Southside halls had come to an end and something new was required. So on 6 October 2005 Sir Richard Sykes, as Rector, held a ceremony to officially start the process of demolition.<\/p>\n