Campus life

My memory of Birmingham will be filled with adventure of late night study seshes, times at the guild, and loving memories with friends!

Spending hours and many rounds at the Bratby discussing scientific and less serious things with fellow group members.

I got to be part of a kpop dance cover - I danced to one of my favourite songs as part of the Korea Society!

Fireworks at the Vale with flatmates.

Making a 'comedy' home video with my mate Kris doing a tour of the campus with host 'Ronson Woocrest' pre-social media we were way ahead of our time!

So many happy memories of studying at Birmingham between 1992-95. I'm now very lucky to have a good excuse to come back to visit as my son is currently studying having just finished his first year. An amazing university!

Grease night at the Guild. I went as Sandy in my black leggings etc.

Spending most of my time in the Guild doing lighting and PA's for all sorts of things and eventually running 'stage staff'.

Watching the Space Shuttle disaster on a Black and White portable TV in a friend's room in Maple Bank.

My love of being part of the University Netball Club

Muirhead Tower's infamous Paternoster lifts - going up over the top and 'jumping off'…

Queueing to use the payphone on a Sunday evening in Maple Bank!

Finding out that there was a Motorcycle Club to join at Fresher's Fair.

The lake at the Vale froze over in Dec-Jan 1981-2. People slid over it using trays taken from the Halls of Residence. Great fun!

Campus covered in snow when I came for interview. Looked so green when I arrived.

Finding the 'secret' route up to the whispering gallery in the Aston Webb building.

I lived in High Hall on the 15th Floor. One night some pranksters removed every single toilet cubicle door and hid them. This happened at about 3am and caused confusion and consternation all day

Happiest memories: Lectures by Dr Bryer; dissertations; walks around outskirts of Birmingham including Alvechurch, Harborne, the Brum-Worcester canal, Dowery Dell viaduct, Manor House 1972-3; Priestley Hall lunches - small pizza, chips and baked beans for 25.5p!

Student protests in 1969-70. Occupying the Vice Chancellor's Office! Snooker in the Union.

A hot spring day and the students in High Hall got the fire hoses out of the windows for a water fight.

Student Demos including 'The Sit In'!

Staying late in the library, making multi-cultural friends.

I came to the University in October 1976 and as an 18 year old Fresher represented the University 1st XV at Rugby.

Nearly 30 years on since I left Birmingham Med School, I still fondly remember my time there and am very grateful for it enabling me to do a job I still love and feel very fortunate to do.

Happy memories. Manor House, The Muirhead Tower, The Dilshad…and my studies, of course.

I loved my time at Birmingham and visit the Edgbaston campus when I can, as it was my first home away from home. I hope it is a wonderful experience for all attendees for the next 125 years!

Let's celebrate our good fortune at attending such a fantastic seat of learning! 125 years of that lovely leafy campus and the iconic Chamberlain clock tower.

My favourite thing about University of Birmingham is that it has always something to keep you going around the year. My fondest memories include the trip to the lake district, dollar hunt event, and grad ball.

Extremely grateful for the learning experience at University of Birmingham, everything was immaculate! From the teaching staff, the courses to the events (UoB festival, Ramadan iftar, UoB extra…)and the societies; unforgettable years spent at Birmingham. You feel part of a community, heard and understood. Thank you !

My story is about playing football at the university, the beautiful game in the mid-70's. Back then it was both training and playing twice a week. Every Wednesday it was against other universities, either at home or travelling away to Loughborough, Liverpool etc. Our home was Wast Hills, with football, hockey and rugby pitches as far as your eyes could see but not just for us, we were joined by our active departmental sports teams. Wednesdays always ended the same, with us in the Union bar! Here we would join all the other teams for a thoroughly good time singing, drinking and playing bar games, yet still make our Thursday lectures. On Saturday afternoons we played the locals in the Birmingham leagues, they so enjoyed playing us students, with us living off their hard-earned taxes. However did we find time to study.

It is about entertainment and law and music and history and chemistry and biology and human and social biology as well.

My grandfather (Professor Harry S Ferns)  emigrated form Canada and was a Professor in Political Science and was associated with the University for more than 30 years (including becoming Head of Department). I remember, as a small boy, being on campus where he used to take me and my sisters to the Vale to go 'fishing' in the canal (using a garden cane, string and red Leicester - safe to say we never caught anything!).

I studied a BA in Geography and graduated in 2003. I've also worked at the University over the last 10 to 15 years. My favourite place on campus when I was here was definitely the Guild. I would say that my favourite place on campus now would be the Green Heart and I come here quite often with my children as I still live locally. My hopes for the next 125 years of the university is that it would give young people the opportunity that it gave me and transform their lives and I think that that is what Birmingham has the power to do.

I studied here from 2015 till 2018 and I studied English. My favourite memory and place on campus has to be the old library and runner up to that was definitely old Joe.