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Dan Whelan
Mersey Bank House on Barbauld Street is to become one of the university’s new town centre locations, after it bought the property as part of plans to relocate from its Padgate Campus.
The University of Chester has acquired the 23,000 sq ft Warrington office block, which was previously occupied by HM Revenue & Customs, from an Isle of Man-based private investor for an undisclosed sum.
The three-storey building has been vacant since 2018 and the university plans to convert the property into a centre for its education and nursing courses.
Once complete, the property is to be renamed the Sarah Parker Remond Building, after the black women’s rights and anti-slavery campaigner who travelled to Warrington to give a series of speeches in the 1800s.
How the university s Time Square site could look THE University of Chester has agreed a lease that will see its Padgate campus close and move to the town centre. Teaching could move into a unit in Time Square as early as September this year after the deal was struck, while the university has also completed the purchase of Mersey Bank House on Barbauld Street. A transition of operations away from the current Crab Lane site, which is likely to become housing, will take place over the next 18 months. It is hoped that the relocation will act as a ‘shopfront’ for the university in Warrington.
How the university s Time Square site could look THE University of Chester has agreed a lease that will see its Padgate campus close and move to the town centre. Teaching could move into a unit in Time Square as early as September this year after the deal was struck, while the university has also completed the purchase of Mersey Bank House on Barbauld Street. A transition of operations away from the current Crab Lane site, which is likely to become housing, will take place over the next 18 months. It is hoped that the relocation will act as a ‘shopfront’ for the university in Warrington.
Sarah Parker Remond lecturer, activist, and abolitionist Photo: Wikipedia
Continuing Christine Kinealy’s series on Black abolitionists who visited Ireland, we find, in Sara Parker Remond, a woman who was remarkable and fearless.
Frederick Douglass’s visit to Ireland 175 years ago an experience that he described as “transformative” has been commemorated on both sides of the Atlantic. However, Frederick was not the first or the last black abolitionist to spend time in the country, although he is the most celebrated. On 29 December 1858, Sarah Parker Remond sailed from Boston to Liverpool. Following a short stay in the north of England, Sarah travelled to Dublin, to lecture on abolition. Her gender not only marked her as an unusual spokesperson for abolition, but also her family connections. Sarah was the sister of Charles Lenox Remond who had lectured in Britain and Ireland in 1840 and 1841. During this time, he had spoken alongside Daniel O’Connell, then