Some towers - Sep/Oct 2020

The Whitworth Building, on the campus of Loughborough University, is a ten-storey building which is part of the Rutherford halls of residence. This image was taken from Schofield Road.

Another view of the Whitworth Building, this time from up the road at Thorpe Hill.

Towers Hall with the smaller tower of the Hazlerigg Hall in front. Hazlerigg Hall was built in 1937, while Towers Hall, Loughborough's tallest building at 68 metres tall, was completed in 1967. It, along with the Wills Memorial Building in Bristol, is the fourth-tallest university building in the UK.

Queen's Park playground has a host of play equipment which is unique in Loughborough. It is the only playground with a sandpit, the only accessible roundabout that I know of in Loughborough, and this, an unusually tall slide tower. There are two ways in, one is at the bottom of the spiral staircase and the other is to cross a suspension bridge to a landing part-way up the tower. The tower has two slides

Whitworth with Towers behind it. Viewed from Stapleford Memorial Park

The current Loughborough Fire Station was built in 1974. I've never seen the fire tower actually being used for firefighting practice, probably because of the extensive array of equipment atop the tower. Instead, they use a simulator to the rear of the station.

The Loughborough Carillon is Loughborough's war memorial. It was built of local materials and was completed in 1923. (One hundred in just three years' time!) The belfry houses 47 bells.