{"id":6929,"date":"2016-09-01T08:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2016-09-01T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:18:36","slug":"south-kensington-campus-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/south-kensington-campus-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"South Kensington Campus: 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 24 year old video will bring back memories for those who can remember Imperial&#8217;s South Kensington campus before all of the rebuilding work and many changes began. Back in late summer 1992 I shot some stock footage around the campus for inclusion in videos we were currently making. This is just a small selection of campus views and I intend to find others, shot prior to this current video.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, you could be one of the people seen walking along the old walkway from the Exhibition Road entrance. You&#8217;ll also see: Dalby Court as it was before the &#8216;blue box&#8217; Faculty Building, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/2013\/06\/27\/imperials-external-tv-view\/\">Civil Engineering<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/2010\/05\/12\/departments-electrical-and-electronic-engineering\/\">Electrical Engineering<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/2014\/03\/01\/100-years-mechanical-and-civil-engineering\/\">Mechanical Engineering<\/a> as well as the old steps up from the pavement on Exhibition Road prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/2014\/06\/27\/opening-of-the-new-college-entrance-2004\/\">new main entrance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not added anything to the sound track, so what you&#8217;ll hear are the sounds of Imperial as well as the sights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LvVcn9E3Bhk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw September 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were at Imperial College around 1992 then this video will bring back memories of the South Kensington campus before all the rebuilding work started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,18461,604],"tags":[161,233,84,197],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-college-history","category-daily-life","tag-buildings","tag-civil-engineering","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-mechanical-engineering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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