Bangor University Welsh: Prifysgol Bangor is a university based in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales.Until 1 September 2007 the University was part of the federal University of Wales, and was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales "UCNW", Coleg Prifysgol Gogledd Cymru in Welsh. From 1995 until 31 August 2007 the University was known as University of Wales, Bangor "UWB" and Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor ("PCB").Bangor University should not be confused with the University College of Bangor, which is a campus of the University of Maine at Augusta).The University was founded as the "University College of North Wales" UCNW on 18 October 1884 with an inaugural address by the Earl of Powis, the College's first President, in Penrhyn Hall. There was then a procession to the college with 3,000 quarryman (quarrymen from Penrhyn Quarry and other quarries had subscribed over £1200 to the university). The result of a campaign for better higher education provision in Wales,and following some rivalry between North Wales towns as to which was to be the base of the new college, it was incorporated by charter a year later.
Its students received degrees from the University of London until 1893 when UCNW became a founding constituent institution of the federal University of Wales.During the Second World War, paintings from national arts galleries were located at the Prichard-Jones Hall to protect them from enemy bombing; they were later moved to slate mines at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Students from University College, London were evacuated to continue their studies in a safer environment at Bangor.During the 1960s, the University shared in the general expansion of Higher Education in the UK following the Robbins Report, with a number of new departments being created and new buildings built. On 22 November 1965, during construction of the extension to the Department of Electronic Engineering in Dean Street, a crane collapsed on the building. The three ton counterweight hit the second floor lecture theatre of the original building about thirty minutes before it would have been occupied by about 80 first year students. The counterweight went through to the ground floor
Its students received degrees from the University of London until 1893 when UCNW became a founding constituent institution of the federal University of Wales.During the Second World War, paintings from national arts galleries were located at the Prichard-Jones Hall to protect them from enemy bombing; they were later moved to slate mines at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Students from University College, London were evacuated to continue their studies in a safer environment at Bangor.During the 1960s, the University shared in the general expansion of Higher Education in the UK following the Robbins Report, with a number of new departments being created and new buildings built. On 22 November 1965, during construction of the extension to the Department of Electronic Engineering in Dean Street, a crane collapsed on the building. The three ton counterweight hit the second floor lecture theatre of the original building about thirty minutes before it would have been occupied by about 80 first year students. The counterweight went through to the ground floor