Pictures of Josephine Butler College

Does anyone have any pictures of the new college being built? Just interested as I imagine a lot of pooled applicants will end up there.

Reply 1

AdamC

I drove past it today. It's right next to the Durham Park and Ride. Lovely view of the carpark!

Looks lovely and new though. I can only dream of the wonderous self-catering facilities it offers!!

Reply 2

Rach:)

1

Where is it?! (I dont know where the park & ride is, sorry......!)

Reply 3

Talya

16

Rep to the first Durham student who posts pictures here.

Go!

Reply 4

blurboy

1

If I applied a course at Queens Campus can I still apply for Josephine Butler college.. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........

Reply 5

AdamC

Our senior tutor asked if anyone from our college wanted to go to Butler... and this is the email he sent is below. It's about 5-10 minutes further up the hill than Collingwood, past even Aidan's. But obviously with the park and ride, there are brilliant bus connections!

The college from the outside is quite a pretty building in honeycomb brick with cream strips at each level. It's quite bright and airy inside I feel from the amount of windows.

It doesn't have the best view on one side, as it overlooks a busy park and ride area for Durham. Though everything in Durham is on a miniature scale, so by "Park and Ride" it's more of a glorified car park.

October 2006 sees the opening of the University’s 16th College, the
first new college in Durham since the opening of Collingwood College in
1972. Located on the Howlands Farm site next to Ustinov College, the
16th College is being purpose-built to provide a level of facilities
consistent with the University’s efforts to maintain its status as a
world-class university.

Butler College will be the only self-catering undergraduate college on
the Durham campus. For those students who enjoy college life but who
find the requirement to take college meals restricting, the College
offers the best of both worlds: the benefits of living-in with the
flexibility of living-out.
In terms of facilities the 16th College offers:

• Spacious new en suite rooms
• Fully-equipped self-catering facilities
• Purpose-built bar and JCR
• State-of-the-art IT facilities
• Gym

Perhaps more tempting than the opportunity of living in the relative
luxury of a brand new building with up-to-date facilities is the chance
to put your mark on 16th College in its first stages of development. In
particular we need, in the first instance, to recruit a JCR President
and a JCR Executive Committee with the energy and commitment to help the
College through what will be a challenging but exciting first year of
operation.

Reply 6

Talya

16

AdamC

The college from the outside is quite a pretty building in honeycomb brick with cream strips at each level. It's quite bright and airy inside I feel from the amount of windows.

No pics = no rep! :biggrin:

But thanks :smile:

Reply 7

Sooz

1

There are some artist's impressions on:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/colleges/sixteenth_college/
http://www.durham21.co.uk/archive/archive.asp?ID=2886

Reply 8

AdamC

I can safely say it doesn't look much like that at the moment. Grass would be a luxury up there... it's just a boggy building site! lol

The first link on the dur.ac.uk website is probs the best one to go by. It does actually look like that!

Reply 9

Talya

16

Do you mean to say NO Durham students on TSR have a digital camera? :eek:

Reply 10

morals_officer

9

Yes, but I really can't be arsed to walk to the building site where it's currently being finished. The building is far from ready, at the mo.

Reply 11

arkbar

12

And most livers-in are at home.

Reply 12

Rooftopcowboy

12

blurboy

If I applied a course at Queens Campus can I still apply for Josephine Butler college.. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........

no, we are about 35mins by car/bus away im afraid....

so its Stephenson or Snow for you!

its still good fun here though (well there! im at home still at the moment)

Reply 13

danfel

7

I want to see what it looks like too!

Want to get in as well... :p:

edit: am being a bit lazy since I live in South Shields... could really go and see it for myself. But will do that if I get an offer... and go in the summer when it's nearer time to let people in... :biggrin:

Reply 14

dobbs

17

If you give me a day or so, I'll get some fancy photos for you lot on my camera...going up to Trevs this evening for a bit of a drinky methinks (amidst all the open day kiddies hehe) with some friends so I could go via Butler to take some piccies.

That's a MAYBE though :wink: