Postcards from Bangor

 Lectures have been cancelled today due to high winds. (It's still safe to shop though). So I've uploaded some pictures instead...

The central carpark never seems to be that full. You can see the 1st World War memorial entrance, Pontio (white) and Main Arts (looks like a cathedral) in the background.

You are now entering a posh university. Ignore the car wheel on the lawn.

This picture doesn't really do Pontio justice but anyway, this is about half way up and in the distance is a nice restaurant. You have to bring your own friends to dine with.

This is the view you get of the town once you reach the top of Pontio, bottom of Main Arts. My village is hidden in those trees in the ridge on the other side. It's a 15 minute walk tops.

And if you look to the left you can gaze out across the bay. You can just about see yacht masts and mountains in the distance.

Main Arts is all very Harry Potter.

Only in period films do students actually use areas like this.

Pontio has a restaurant and cafe, so does Main Arts. The cafe is used by the plebs the fancy restaurant seems to be a hang out for professors and random dignitaries. Like many institutions, university is a gravy train.

I just caught a picture of a waiter wheeling a trolley full of plates. It was like something out of Titanic, and in fairness Main Arts was built at the same time.

I saw a Chinese student come out of here with a wad of toilet paper in his hand. Either he brought it with him, expecting none to be provided (as would be the case in China) or he was delighted to find it is provided and is stocking up.

I really think this toilet should be Grade 1 listed.Not the toilet brush, though.

A good education is one route to heaven.

Why are the lights on? Nobody knows. Or cares.

 

The reading room alleged to be haunted. 

The fancy reading room above it that is not alleged to be haunted.

My child literature lectures are in the room bottom left. Built 1910, like Main Arts.

Traffic tends to be light around the top of Main Arts.

In my view you can't call Bangor a shit hole when it keeps doing things like this.

The Music School, which I have no involvement with but I thought I'd take a picture anyway.

More Main Arts porn.

Not going to make quadrangle of the month, is it?

I wonder if that noticeboard was there when the Titanic struck the iceberg. I wonder if notices about Titanic were placed on the board.

Don't you hate it when doors that were once meant to be used as an entrance now have a no entry sign on them? And don't you think the windows look like a ship's portholes? Okay, enough.

Hope you enjoyed. I'll upload some pics of my village later in the week.