IT'S 100 years since the Harris Institute in Corporation Street, Preston, first opened it doors to freshers at the town's new college.
In 1897, it was mainly for the well-to-do and those who could afford not to send their offspring out to work.
These days the Harris is part of the bustling University of Central Lancashire with some 20,000 students studying a range of subjects from traditional ones like engineering and maths, to the more obscure such as Tableware.
To mark the 100th anniversary, descendants of the Harris' first president Sir William Ascroft JP and others involved in the institute's history were invited to a special ceremony, with an exhibition made up of artefacts from the building's past.
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