{"id":9609,"date":"2021-11-01T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2021-11-01T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:38:23","slug":"linstead-hall-demolition-rebuilding-2007-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/linstead-hall-demolition-rebuilding-2007-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Linstead Hall Demolition\/Rebuilding: 2007-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s video was previously available back in 2007 via the old Imperial iMedia Server. However, that has now been decommissioned and videos are no longer accessible from it. So let&#8217;s go back to the day when Rector Sir Richard Sykes officially launched the start of demolition and ultimately rebuilding of what was called Linstead Hall, but then became Eastside Halls.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Linstead Halls  Demolition: 30 July 2007\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NGZ5lfaPvGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Sykes had already ended his term as Rector when, in 2008, Sir Roy Anderson who was then Rector, attended the Topping Out Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eastside &#039;Topping out&#039; ceremony Imperial College London\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H7m2IcbmSSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just before the end of 2009 we made a series of &#8216;student tours&#8217; of the various halls of residence at Imperial College. 1st year Biochemistry Student Laura Bunting did the honours by showing us around the newly opened Eastside block.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eastside Halls - Student Tour: 2009\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oREWaKvyKAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw November 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it&#8217;s firstly the demolition and then occupation of the old and then new Linstead (Eastside) Halls 2007-2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,79,18461,53,82],"tags":[157,161,155,183,89],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-college-history","category-events","category-student-life","tag-accommodation","tag-buildings","tag-eastside","tag-princes-gardens","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}