Towers Hall
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Towers Hall accommodates 300 students at Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is located on the 'east park' of the University's vast campus.
[edit] History
The building is Locally Listed Building of important interest [1]
It was designed by Gollins Melvin Ward & Partners Chartered Architects of London in 1963. (Also designers of much of Sheffield Uni, the British airways terminal at JFK Airport, New York and the Royal Military Academy building).Built between 1964-5 by William Moss & Sons ltd, based in Loughborough the building was originally the brain child of John Bridgeman, the Principle of the Loughborough Teacher Training College. Bridgeman retired in 1963, and the building was completed in the time of the next principle, John Hardie.
The building began to subside at 8 storeys high because as a marsh lay where Butler Court now sits, so building work had to be postponed while concrete was pumped into the foundations of the structure.
The building is 210ft (64m) high in total; The East tower is about 157ft (48m) and the West about 183ft (56m). Although the building was finished in 1966 Towers was first used for accommodation in September 1967.[2]
The original price of rent in the catered hall was just £310 pounds, a fraction of todays fee's. The East tower used to be for men only and the West for females only.
A lock is still visible on the doors between the towers, which were locked to prevent mingling between the male and female towers.
The Towers remained East Tower for Men, West Tower for Women until the College of Education amalgamated with the University in 1977, and the hall became a mixed hall in September 1978.[3]
There used to be 4 box rooms for storage(two for the girls and two for the boys), but now there are only 3, the fourth is locked and it's on floor 22. Female students were allowed to stay the full four years of their teacher training course while staying in Hall, but Male students had to live elsewhere in their second year. Originally you could walk right under the towers from one side to the other The laundry used to be on Floor 21
Towers Hall today is a 35 week catered hall for any type of student [4]
