Month: March 2025

Ethos Opening: 2006

I’ve managed to save this video before it was lost forever. It is one of many videos that were hosted on the old video server previously used on the College’s website. I had just asked what had happened to the old server when I was informed that it was about to be fully decommissioned and scrapped within a few months.

Fortunately, common sense had already prevailed, and YouTube was accepted as the most obvious platform for uploading videos, leaving the old server unused. These early videos were in a variety of different formats, including RealPlayer and Windows Media. Transcoding this particular video from the RealPlayer format into a format compatible with YouTube was an almost impossible task. The image resolution is not great, but it’s the best I could achieve.

The video shows the opening of the Ethos Sports Centre in 2006. I haven’t been able to find any general photos that might have been taken, so only the video remains. A notable attendee was Sir Roger Bannister, whom I was pleased to meet after his speech.

Colin Grimshaw March 2025