Life In 2003, I revisited the three places I lived as an undergrad in Leeds. Now, thanks to Google Street View, since the little car apparently took these photos last summer, I can see what they look like five years later.
First year: Macaulay Hall , Beckett Park Campus:
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The car didn't quite drive that way, but it's the building in the centre. Sometimes we'd have seminars there and I could attend in my slippers.
Second year: 69 Richmond Avenue.
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That window at the front was my bedroom. Notice the To Let sign. I wonder if this still a student house, or it just means it hadn't been secured by anyone for the summer.
Third year: 38 Harold Walk.
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My bedroom this time was behind the window on the top right. The wall between me and that bathroom was basically made hardboard and I could hear everything. I think the block paving outside is new.
Is it possible for you to do the same? Perhaps we could start one of those meme things.
Just for fun, I look for the University of Manchester (where I was a post-grad). The photocar must have visited Oxford Road on a wet Sunday at the crack of dawn:
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I love that even so, there's still at least one student crossing the street.
Now there's an interesting way to find visuals to accompany your posts. Maybe now I'll go back and find one where I can do the same.
ReplyDeleteThat library is a really beautiful building. I think I would have loved to study in there.