The idea of a university college in Manchester was not new and some of Owens's ... Portrait medallion of John Owens by Thomas Woolner, 1878 The gothic building now named for John Owens was the first ...
The Victoria University of Manchester developed out of Owens College ... new premises and building started on the current Oxford Road site. The first building, now the John Owens building, was ...
The University of Manchester in the UK has reached a significant stage in the redevelopment plans for its Fallowfield Campus ...
More than 1,000 extra students will live in Fallowfield, university chiefs have confirmed — despite an exodus from south ...
The Rutherford Building ... and so the University sought the best possible successor. The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who had studied in ...
John Owens (1790–1846) was a cotton merchant, philanthropist, and founder of Owens College, one of the predecessors of The University of Manchester. Dr James Hopkins, University Historian and Heritage ...