When I attended from 1968 to 1972 it was called Brighton College of Advanced Technology, located at the Moulescombe site.

What is now called the Falmer Campus was originally called the Teacher Training College. The institution now called the University of Brighton was originally founded as an art school in 1859. Other preceding institutes included the Municipal Technical College in 1897 and Teacher Training College in 1909. The technical college and art school merged in 1970 to form Brighton Polytechnic; the teachers college merged into the school in 1976. It became a university in 1992. (Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/university-of-brighton-1?cat=travel)

When I was at the Brighton Technical College in the late 1960s, this establishment was known as the "Brighton College of Technology" and later, when I attended here in the early 1970s, as the "Brighton Polytechnic". Later still it became Brighton University.

I remember going to see what was then Brighton Poly with Fairlight Junior School in 1974 and thought, one day I want to go there. After years of work I enlisted on the BA Social Policy degree course in 2004 at Falmer and graduated in 2007. I remember sitting in the Ccockcroft library preparing for finals and looking out towards the avenue remembering that visit and saying quietly to myself a promise come true. Yes.

I was an American college student in the autumn term of 1984 at the Falmer campus. We lived at the seafront halls and took the train from Brighton for classes. Happy, happy times, those. I think of them still everyday.

I worked at the building from 1970 to 1974 when it was called the Brighton Polytechnic. I worked on the top floor which was the computer department and remember the huge computers that filled one of the large rooms.