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Hulme Hall, Manchester
Hulme Hall is a traditional hall of residence at the University of Manchester situated at the Victoria Park Campus in Rusholme, Manchester. It houses 300 students and has a range of facilities including the John Hartshorne Centre: a 300 seat lecture theatre with attached seminar rooms; a library; Junior Common Room and study spaces; music room; old dining hall; the Victoria Park bar; and chapel.
The hall is the oldest student accommodation in Manchester, founded in association with Owens College. It was named after the Lancashire lawyer and landowner William Hulme whose Hulme Trust funded the Hall's foundation. It is a Grade II listed building. Along with Dalton-Ellis Hall, Ashburne Hall, St. Anselm Hall, and Woolton Hall, Hulme is one of the five remaining traditional collegiate halls of residence at the University of Manchester.
The present-day University of Manchester has its roots in Owens College. As the academic profile of the college grew, students began coming from outside Manchester, which led to increased need for halls of residence to be attached to the college. These had first been suggested in 1856 to promote discipline, but nothing came of this until 1869, when several meetings were held between figures of Manchester's intellectual and philanthropic class with the end of establishing a Church of England hall of residence. The leaders of this project were Manchester MPs Sir William Houldsworth and Hugh Birley, though they were joined by philanthropist Richard Copley Christie and then president of Owens College Joseph Gouge Greenwood. Today these founders can be found in the names of various accommodation blocks at Hulme Hall. These men appealed to the Hulme Trust, a charity established in 1691 by William Hulme, for assistance; however the trust was unable to provide.
The hall opened at 174 Plymouth Grove in 1870, but was short-lived for financial reasons, and closed in 1876. This was the first hall of residence opened in connection to Owens College, and one of the first outside Oxford and Cambridge in the country. The hall was a private entity separate to the then Owen's College, with funds provided by Sir William Houldsworth, a prominent Manchester businessman, and the Hulme Trust, and was administered by a board of governors. Membership initially was for male students at Owens College, and later the University of Manchester. In 1886 the hall reached an agreement with the Hulme Trust providing £1,000 a year, half of which was to be spent on scholarships, and the hall – now named Hulme Hall – was opened to students.
In 1933 a short history of Hulme Hall's first incarnation was written by then warden Thomas Nicklin, and published by the Oxford University Press.
In the mid-1950s, the University of Manchester announced plans to expand its residential capacity. By the end of the decade many independent halls of residence in Manchester were at risk of folding, and the university gradually assumed responsibility for the upkeep of many halls, including Hulme in 1962. In 1966–1967 work was carried out by Bernard Taylor & Partners to build five new accommodation blocks: Christie (named for Richard Copley Christie, one of the hall's secretaries), Oaklands, Greenwood (named for Joseph Gouge Greenwood, former principal of Owen's College and a member of the hall's original Committee of Management in 1870), Birley (named for Hugh Birley), and Plymouth; along with a new dining hall, bar, and common room. The old warden's lodge, and a number of other buildings around Hulme, were demolished to make space for the new accommodation. The largest of the blocks, Oaklands, consists of four floors of student accommodation. Each floor contains two kitchens, male and female bathrooms and the first floor also contains the Oaklands common room and the "Sky bridge" connection to the Christie block and subsequently to the table tennis and snooker building. Oaklands is at the heart of a structure with a larger number of student rooms than any other building in Hulme Hall. 1968 saw the construction of the chapel, which was designed by the architect JRG Seward, and dedicated on 21 January by the bishop of Manchester. It can seat 150 people and was designed with the idea of drama and musical productions as well as services.
In 1985 Hulme Hall accepted female students for the first time, initially on a trial basis. This proved successful and by the end of the 1980s the hall was officially mixed.
In 1992 Hulme's only self-catered block, Burkhardt House, was constructed, housing an extra 129 students. It is named after George Norman Burkhardt, who was Dean of Science at the university in 1968, and his wife Carol. Burkhardt House proved popular as student residences were increasingly self-catered and ensuite, and over the next decade Hulme Hall's two remaining Victorian villas – Park House and Jubilee House – were closed down.
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Hulme Hall, Manchester
Hulme Hall is a traditional hall of residence at the University of Manchester situated at the Victoria Park Campus in Rusholme, Manchester. It houses 300 students and has a range of facilities including the John Hartshorne Centre: a 300 seat lecture theatre with attached seminar rooms; a library; Junior Common Room and study spaces; music room; old dining hall; the Victoria Park bar; and chapel.
The hall is the oldest student accommodation in Manchester, founded in association with Owens College. It was named after the Lancashire lawyer and landowner William Hulme whose Hulme Trust funded the Hall's foundation. It is a Grade II listed building. Along with Dalton-Ellis Hall, Ashburne Hall, St. Anselm Hall, and Woolton Hall, Hulme is one of the five remaining traditional collegiate halls of residence at the University of Manchester.
The present-day University of Manchester has its roots in Owens College. As the academic profile of the college grew, students began coming from outside Manchester, which led to increased need for halls of residence to be attached to the college. These had first been suggested in 1856 to promote discipline, but nothing came of this until 1869, when several meetings were held between figures of Manchester's intellectual and philanthropic class with the end of establishing a Church of England hall of residence. The leaders of this project were Manchester MPs Sir William Houldsworth and Hugh Birley, though they were joined by philanthropist Richard Copley Christie and then president of Owens College Joseph Gouge Greenwood. Today these founders can be found in the names of various accommodation blocks at Hulme Hall. These men appealed to the Hulme Trust, a charity established in 1691 by William Hulme, for assistance; however the trust was unable to provide.
The hall opened at 174 Plymouth Grove in 1870, but was short-lived for financial reasons, and closed in 1876. This was the first hall of residence opened in connection to Owens College, and one of the first outside Oxford and Cambridge in the country. The hall was a private entity separate to the then Owen's College, with funds provided by Sir William Houldsworth, a prominent Manchester businessman, and the Hulme Trust, and was administered by a board of governors. Membership initially was for male students at Owens College, and later the University of Manchester. In 1886 the hall reached an agreement with the Hulme Trust providing £1,000 a year, half of which was to be spent on scholarships, and the hall – now named Hulme Hall – was opened to students.
In 1933 a short history of Hulme Hall's first incarnation was written by then warden Thomas Nicklin, and published by the Oxford University Press.
In the mid-1950s, the University of Manchester announced plans to expand its residential capacity. By the end of the decade many independent halls of residence in Manchester were at risk of folding, and the university gradually assumed responsibility for the upkeep of many halls, including Hulme in 1962. In 1966–1967 work was carried out by Bernard Taylor & Partners to build five new accommodation blocks: Christie (named for Richard Copley Christie, one of the hall's secretaries), Oaklands, Greenwood (named for Joseph Gouge Greenwood, former principal of Owen's College and a member of the hall's original Committee of Management in 1870), Birley (named for Hugh Birley), and Plymouth; along with a new dining hall, bar, and common room. The old warden's lodge, and a number of other buildings around Hulme, were demolished to make space for the new accommodation. The largest of the blocks, Oaklands, consists of four floors of student accommodation. Each floor contains two kitchens, male and female bathrooms and the first floor also contains the Oaklands common room and the "Sky bridge" connection to the Christie block and subsequently to the table tennis and snooker building. Oaklands is at the heart of a structure with a larger number of student rooms than any other building in Hulme Hall. 1968 saw the construction of the chapel, which was designed by the architect JRG Seward, and dedicated on 21 January by the bishop of Manchester. It can seat 150 people and was designed with the idea of drama and musical productions as well as services.
In 1985 Hulme Hall accepted female students for the first time, initially on a trial basis. This proved successful and by the end of the 1980s the hall was officially mixed.
In 1992 Hulme's only self-catered block, Burkhardt House, was constructed, housing an extra 129 students. It is named after George Norman Burkhardt, who was Dean of Science at the university in 1968, and his wife Carol. Burkhardt House proved popular as student residences were increasingly self-catered and ensuite, and over the next decade Hulme Hall's two remaining Victorian villas – Park House and Jubilee House – were closed down.
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