Images of the University from the 1970's when the campus was a pleasant place

The cedar tree outside the old library, now the Herbert Manzoni building, before it lost its top due to snow in the 1980's

Hazelrigg Hall with a future far east sales manager for Rolls Royce. Note the lack of a student Union building which was built on a superb cricket pitch. Epinal Way did not exist and was tennis courts.

The Haslegrave building was otherwise know as the buffer building because it was only supposed to last for a few years. The cricket pitch was jointly used with rugby and hockey pitches in the winter. You can see the fenced-off cricket square. The portacabins in the car park in the distance were staff offices. The mathematics department office was a wooden hut in front of Schofield. One of the huts is still there. The other was demolished to make way for the new MEC. Mathematics staff offices were portacabins on the car park between Schofield and the EHB, although a few lucky ones had offices in Rutland.

In the 1970's hockey was played on grass, before the business school was built. Here you see a very nice hockey pitch with a future university professor in his early career. The fence actually marked the boundary of the University of Technology at that time since the fields belonged to the College of Education which amalgamated with the University in 1976.

Telford hall was built along with some of the old student village in the 1960's. Where the library and Elvyn Richards Hall are, was a small university golf course, home to hares, badgers and screech owls. The wildlife has long since gone.

A brief history of mathematics at Loughborough University.

Mathematics was originally only taught as a service course to engineers in the College of Technology and joint with other subjects in the College of Education. With the granting of university status in 1966 an industrial mathematics course was set up where all the students did a year in industry. The first Professor was Colin Storey who specialised in Control Theory. He obtained his BSc (external London) by night school study after leaving school at the age of 14 and becoming an apprentice signalman. Later he was awrded a DSc by London University. He died in 2008. In the early 1970's a professor of computing D.J. Evans, an excellent numerical analyst but with a difficult personality, joined the Mathematics Department from Sheffield and a senior lecturer, A.C Bajpai, was promoted to become professor of mathematical education. Shortly after the department split into 3.... mathematics, computer studies and engineering mathematics with the 3 professor as their heads. The engineering mathematics department originally did mainly service teaching. CAMET (Council for the advancement of mathematical education in technology) was set up attached to engineering mathematics. This unit was effectively the precursor to the present MEC. At this time nearly all external money funded post docs in control theory or education projects in CAMET. Mathematics was also taught in the College of Education, as joint courses with other disciplines. The PE and mathematics course attracted very highly qualified applicants and was one of the flagship courses of the then PE department, with England Union players such as Fran Cotton as its graduates. Other joint courses included Mathematics and Geography and Mathematics and Library Studies. In 1976 the joint honours courses were taken over by the University with the amalgamation of the College of Education.

There was a period of stagnation in the 1980's with very little money around for anything. During that time Sue Hearnshaw, one of our final year students won a bronze in the LA Olympics with absolutely no sponsorship or intense training.