19F. W. Rogers Brambell on the marine zoology Easter course, 1933. Dates of terms were set in accordance with information on the tides – ‘Brambell’s tides’ as they were known.

20Sir Ifor Williams, Professor of Welsh and ‘doyen of Celtic scholars’.

21Wynn Wheldon, Registrar, 1920–33.

22Students and sandbags on the terrace of the Main Building during the Second World War.

23The improvised Physics laboratory in 1942 in an old bicycle shop on Bangor High Street. (Reproduced by kind permission of UCL Library Services and UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy).

24Valuable National Gallery paintings being unloaded at the Prichard-Jones Hall in 1939 (reproduced by kind permission of BRB [Residuary] Ltd.).

25The Main Building in the late 1930s.

26The ‘Adult Training Orchestra’, conducted by E.T. Davies, the first Director of Music, who established the idea of ‘lecture concerts’.

27Prime Minister Clement Attlee receives an honorary degree on the stage of Prichard-Jones Hall in 1949.

28Wesbury Mount in Menai Bridge, purchased as a home for the Marine Biological Station in the 1950s.

29For many students, Prichard-Jones Hall was the venue for College ‘hops’ (and examinations!).

30The eminent electrical engineer, Sir Willis Jackson (third from left) at the opening of the Electronic Engineering building in Dean Street in 1959, with Principal Charles Evans (second from right).

31The Students’ Representative Council, 1956/57. The President was R. Gerallt Jones, the writer and poet.

32The original Dining Hall, now divided into teaching rooms.

33Charles Evans, Principal, 1958–84 – a pencil drawing by John Merton in 1972.

34Lord Hailsham (right) during the opening of the new Physics Building in 1962.

35Brecht’s ‘The Tutor’ performed by the English Dramatic Society in 1965.

36W. Charles Evans (with pipe) holds forth to postgraduate students and researchers in Biochemistry – one, Douglas Ribbons (second from right), later occupied the Chair of Biochemistry and Soil Science.

37Students’ Union Executive, 1963–64, in the Council Chamber.

38Dennis Crisp, one of the world’s most influential marine scientists, in the 1960s.

39J. Gwynn Williams, Professor of Welsh History, and Vice-Principal from 1974 until 1979.

40William Mathias (left) Professor of Music, with Gordon Lamb, visiting Head of Department from the University of Texas in 1976 (by kind permission of Rhiannon Mathias).

41Bedwyr Lewis Jones, Professor of Welsh from 1973 until 1992.

42Students of Neuadd John Morris-Jones and Welsh medium teaching staff.

43Principal Sir Charles Evans (left), Lord Kenyon, President (centre)and Eric Hughes, Registrar, at a meeting of the Court in the late 1970s.

44Student protesters gather, watched by police officers, in January 1979.

45The College rugby team, 1979/80.

46Eric Sunderland, Principal, 1984–95.

47The centenary: Eric Sunderland (Principal) and Sir William Mars-Jones (President), lead the centenary procession from the Penrhyn Arms portico in October 1984.

48New en suite student residences were opened on the Ffriddoedd site in 1993.

49Hen Goleg, the original Coleg Normal building, became part of the University in 1996 and now houses the University’s Business School.

50The poet R. S. Thomas, who declined an Honorary Professorship in the 1980s in protest at government policy, accepted one in the 1990s.

51Roy Evans, Vice-Chancellor, 1995–2004.

52Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos unveils his portrait on his retirement as President in December 2000.

53Merfyn Jones, Vice-Chancellor since 2004.

54Student volunteering: an arts and crafts session at Treborth Botanical Gardens for local children.

55The University Chamber Choir, rehearsing with Dame Kiri te Kanawa in 2003.

56Author Philip Pullman, an Honorary Fellow and Honorary Professor in the University, lecturing in the Main Arts Lecture Theatre in 2006.

57Lord Elis-Thomas (President) and the Prince of Wales at the ceremony in June 2007 in Prichard-Jones Hall to mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Main University Building.

58Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with the Vice-Chancellor Merfyn Jones, chats to a student at the opening of the ‘Environment Centre Wales’ in February 2008.

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