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Standing near the top of Park Street on Queens Road, [6] it is a landmark building of the University of Bristol that currently houses the School of Law and the Department of Earth Sciences, as well as the Law and Earth Sciences libraries. [7] It is the fourth highest structure in Bristol, standing at 215 ft (65.5 m). [8]
The building was purchased and given to the university in 1920 as a home for the student union and, circa 1924, it spent a brief period as a cinema. Following a fire in 1934, the building was refurbished by the university. It remained as the base of the student union until purpose-built facilities were opened in Queens Road in the 1960s.
Purpose-built in the 1960s, and refurbished in the summer of 2008, 115 Queen's Road is directly opposite the student's union, [22] and so has quick access to the student bar and university swimming pool. It has 41 single rooms, with 9 rooms on each floor.
The Winston Theatre was built in the 1960s as part of the Students' Union building on Queens Road in Clifton, Bristol.The Union moved to this new location in 1965 from the Victoria Rooms, as a larger premises due to the large expansion of the University and increase in undergraduate numbers.
The University of Bristol Students' Union (Bristol SU) located on Queen's Road in the Richmond Building is a founding member of the National Union of Students and is amongst the oldest students' unions in England. The union oversees three media outlets: UBTV, the Bristol University Radio Station and the student newspaper Epigram.
The union was originally housed in the grand Victoria Rooms on the corner of Queen's Road and Whiteladies Road. [8] Today this building houses the University of Bristol's music department. The union is now a multi-site organisation, with spaces in Senate House and the Richmond Building, Queens Road, Clifton.
The bird flu outbreak has taken concerning turns, with more than 60 human cases confirmed. Experts outlined four signs that the virus is going in the wrong direction.
During the COVID-19 pandemic a temporary 300-bed NHS COVID-19 critical care hospital, one of seven NHS Nightingale Hospitals in England, was built at the Exhibition and Conference Centre of the University of the West of England. [2] [3] It would be ready for use from 25 April, but would only be used if needed during the peak of the outbreak. [4]