I’ve managed to save today’s video before it was lost forever. This is one of many videos that were on the old video server used to present videos on the college’s web pages. I had just asked what had happened to the old server when I was informed that it was about to be fully decommissioned and ‘junked’ within a few months.
Fortunately, common sense had already prevailed and YouTube was accepted as the most obvious place to upload videos to, leaving the old server gathering dust. These early videos were in a variety of different formats including “RealPlayer” and “Windows Media”. It was an almost impossible task to transcode this video from the RealPlayer format into something YouTube would accept. Image resolution is not great, but the best I could achieve.
Today’s video is the opening of the Ethos Sports Centre in 2006. I can’t find any general photos that might have been taken, so we’re stuck with just the video. A notable attendee was Sir Roger Bannister who I was pleased to have met after he had given his speech.
Colin Grimshaw March 2025