Hughes Parry Hall, London

At the time of writing Hughes Parry Hall is closed as part of the University of London's redevelopment of its student accommodation on Cartwright Gardens.

In August 2013 the University received planning permission to redevelop the Garden Halls site.

The hall was opened in 1969 and its design and facilities bore witness to the exigencies of that time: the thirteen-story tower block had shared bathroom facilities and there was little by way of communal kitchen arrangements (although the hall provided both breakfast and evening meals).

In the early days of the Hall, at Christmas the students were accustomed to wrap decorative paper around the life-size statue of John Cartwright in the Gardens that are named after him, though this tradition ceased in the 1970s.

The adjacent Canterbury (female) and Commonwealth (male) halls remained single-sex well into the 1980s; The first warden, Dr Jeffery David Lewins, was appointed in December 1968.