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Hmmm I'll go for Portsmouth or Southampton.

Actually, strike the Southampton bit, as you wouldn't have needed a mini bus to get to the Uni.

Ditto Portsmouth IMO, as the campuses (for lack of a better term) are walkable from either station.

Er, Sheffield. DG Goes North?

I've no idea - I can only think of Canterbury and that's full of tourists.

I think I was first the guess Margate so I'd better give this a go too. Ok then - decent university I expect, knowing where DG ended up - further afield than the home counties, but a campus university with a nearby (though not near enough) mainline connection to London.

My guess is that minibus went to the campus of Warwick, so now I've got to disaggregate Warwick, Leamington Spa and Coventry. All three are arguably historic, though 8 miles is quite a way in a minibus and it would have been quicker and easier to get you to go to Coventry - but then maybe you'd have decided against going to university there.

I'm going to Warwick as its Wikipedia looks a bit more fun and historic. That's where I'd spend my Saturday were I not overwhelmed by DIY...

Enjoy!

I'll say Coventry. Should be rather fast on the train and the city strikes me as the sort of place for DG to explore. I certainly found it more fascinating than I'd have thought when I went.

Of course I'd rather prefer to read about Sheffield, but I doubt the train there would be that fast.

Birmingham?

or Leicester?

I thought Coventry, but I seem to have been beaten to it. How,then about Wolverhampton (everywhere now has a uni these days) and it's a city and seems obscure enough for you make it fascinating,dg. Just a bit quicker than Margate too....

I won't give the answer but it would be obvious to anybody who read your blogs on "The History Boys".

I am going to really look forward to this. Going back to your old university town and in particular if you go back to your old college after such a long time is very strange and unnerving for some. To others it is as if they had never been away and they are completely at home after a few minutes. I wonder what effect this will have on you.

Loughborough

The train ride to Coventry is quite pleasant. And you can walk to the city centre from the station.

*rambling*

Hope for your sake its not Cardiff or as the overpaid embarrasingly naff "leaders" like to dub it "our vibrant young capital"

Nottingham?

Of course if you think you have the answer you can check by noting his comment "at a central London terminus, about to set off" and then looking up train times. Perhaps thats a bit obsessive!

Keele? Stafford/Stoke?
Wild guess. My geography's so rubbish a very wild guess is all I can muster.
But yes, I bet it's a 'good' pre-1992 university, and, pace Pedantic, not necessarily where DG finally ended up.

Much as I'd love to read what DG thinks about my home city, I don't think it will be Sheffield - train journey much longer than London to Margate, plus in 1982 we only had one university, and they sent directions about which bus to catch rather than a minibus.

I'm guessing... oh I don't know! Somewhere in the Midlands, maybe Leicester (they definitely sent a minibus!), despite the fact that I've been beaten to this guess (and I'm probably wrong anyway).

Bristol?

I thought Birmingham. Then spotted Coventry in the comments box and don't know which one to guess.

is Guildford a city?

Can one be sat on a train? I know it is common parlance, but whatever happenened to the present participle "sitting"?
It's a bit like saying "I am ate/eaten my dinner in Coventry"
http://www.englishdaily626.com/gocu.php?006

Brum...Gotta be Brum...

...Or Cov...

Arrrgh....

Ah well, I backed the wrong horse with Coventry. I'm disappointed that the university didn't suggest a more convenient railway station for the minibus...

To Pedantic of Purley, I'd be interested if DG has avoided his alma mater for so long given the sheer volume of fundraising events and other reasons to return I seem to receive - then again, I left much more recently than DG did.











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