Electrical and Civil Eng

Princes Margaret opens Southside, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering buildings 

HRH Princess Margaret opened Southside Halls of Residence on 8th October. This increased student accommodation so that 20% could live in halls, compared to 8% in 1955.

After she had opened Southside, she visited two other new buildings at South Kensington. In Electrical Engineering, she was given a demonstration of bandwidth compression and in Civil Engineering she viewed a model dam. Listen to Sir Patrick

 Linstead’s speech from the official opening ceremony of Southside in 1963.