Liverpool Uni #1 Traditional Geocache
team tinker: not there, stolen by some robbing scouser
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Micro on the University of Liverpool Campus. Stealth needed++! Avoid open days and freshers fairs!
A simple Micro in the relatrively cache-poor area of central Liverpool, near the Famous Victoria building. Wheelchair accessible. Cache is a 35mm film container, with no pen/pencil, sorry!
The university was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool. In 1884, it became part of the federal Victoria University. Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university with the right to confer its own degrees called the University of Liverpool.
The University has produced eight Nobel prize winners, from the fields of science, medicine and peace. The nobel laureates include the physician Sir Ronald Ross, physicist Professor Charles Barkla, the physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, physicist Sir James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, physiologist Professor Har Gobind Khorana, physiologist Professor Rodney Porter, and physicist Professor Joseph Rotblat.
The term red brick was first coined by a Liverpool professor to describe the red brick built civic universities that were built in the UK, mostly in the latter part of the 19th century; these were characterised by Victorian buildings of red brick, such as Victoria Building, which was historically the administrative heart of the University.
The grade II listed red-brick Victoria Building, designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse was opened in 1892 and is a well known landamark in The University of Liverpool The Building was the inspiration for the term "red brick university". The term was coined by Professor Edgar Allison Peers to describe the group of universities founded in Britain's industrial cities during the Victorian era in his books Redbrick University (1943) and Redbrick and these Vital Days (1945).
Originally the building was the administrative centre of the university housing the university library and the offices of most of the senior academics. Recently the building has mostly unused as the univerity's administration has been moved to the newly built Foundation Building.
The Victoria building is set to re-open in July 2008 as the Victoria Gallery and Museum and will house most of the university's art collection including work by John James Audubon, Lucian Freud, J. M. W. Turner, Jacob Epstein and Augustus John along with various scientific objects from the university's "hertitage collection".
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