In November 1961 the Government announced that the
new university of the North-West was to be at Lancaster after fierce comptetition
from all parts of the country.
New universities had been announced at Sussex, Essex, East
Anglia, Kent, Warwick and York. The siting of the university of Lancaster
solved the problem of the large area of the country between the Mersey
and the Clyde left without a university
.
The
Beginning
The first batch of 330 students were admitted in October
1964. They travelled each day from digs and flats in Morecambe to the
University's temporary base at St Leonard's House, a converted Waring
and Gillow warehouse in the centre of the city.
Today students live in residencies situated in the nine
collleges: