Mansfield Lives is a project to create a collection of alumni memories, capturing a history of Mansfield College as ‘lived’ by its students and staff.
Do you have a picture from a College Ball, or from a sporting event? Maybe you have a picture or footage of croquet on the quad, bikes at the porters lodge, a quiet time in the university parks, cooking with friends, drinks in the student bar, or from celebrating your finals? Whatever you have, we'd love you to share them with the Mansfield Lives archive project.
The aim is for Mansfield Lives to be a celebration of our vibrant College community spanning back through the decades. The collection will be searchable and, as the collection is built up, it will be a wonderful source of information and memories. For this aim to become a reality, we need alumni, you, to contribute. So please have a look through some of the pictures or video recordings you may have, and please get in touch.
Simon Giddings (Physics, 1989) is leading the project to establish Mansfield Lives. Following three years at Mansfield, Simon completed teacher training in London. That led to a teaching career spanning schools in London, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Simon now lives in Greece and we are delighted that he is spearheading this remarkable new project for us.
If you have any questions about your contribution, or have an item that you cannot submit via the form below, please email Simon at mansfieldlives@gmail.com.
The more contributions made, the richer Mansfield Lives becomes.
Below are some photographs which are already archived as part of the Mansfield Lives project (click on each one individually to view the larger image):
Mansfield College Bar, Winter 1989. The bar was then at the bottom of the library staircase, near the JCR. I remember it always being lively. It was a student run bar.
Summer Eights, 1992. Mens 1st VIII. The boat is new to the college. I believe it was the first new boat the college boat club had purchased in ten years. It was purchased second hand from one of the London rowing clubs. On our first outing in it, excited, we swerved to the right to avoid hitting a swan and rowed the boat straight into the bank, putting a hole in the side of our brand new boat. It took four weeks for the repair! Embarrassing to say the least!
Torpids, 1992. Mens 1st VIII. Not our finest hour! We were bumped, maybe 6 places, over the course of the regatta. This photo captures us conceding to a crew rapidly approaching from the right.
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