Owens Park
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Owens Park is one of the major student accommodation blocks in the Fallowfield Campus, Fallowfield, Manchester. It houses 1056 students from the University of Manchester.
Owens Park comprises five main residential blocks (Tower, Tree Court, Green Court, Little Court and the Mall), an entertainment block (referred to as The Bar), where the weekly BOP ('Big Old Party') takes place, and an administration/library block. It also contains a computer cluster available to all students of the University.
The residential blocks are internally sub-divided into houses, each housing approximately 30-40 students of mixed sex (though any given floor in a house is single sex). Each house has a supervising tutor and a common room. Each floor in a house has its own bathroom and kitchen (though the kitchen closest to a common room is often used by the whole house rather than its intended floor). However, the halls are catered during the week.
There are generally rivalries between adjacent houses that can break into sporadic aquatic violence (water fights) but this is frowned upon by management.
The 61m high [link] Owens Park Tower is a local landmark. Plans on the part of the University of Manchester to demolish the tower have been abandoned as a result of protests of current and past residents at its iconic status. As of 2005, a refurbishment programme is planned.
The Owens Park tower is plagued by frequent false fire alarms. These are mostly intentionally set off, often by intoxicated students activating the push-buttons on the walls, but can also result from poor cooking, or smokers triggering the smoke sensors. It is rare that the tower will go a week during term time without a fire alarm.
Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien was a resident during his time at university in Manchester. The Chemical Brothers played one of their first gigs at the BOP.
External links
- [Owen's Park Tower] from http://www.skyscraperpage.com
- [Accommodation page written by students]
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