Item RSP/7/k/21 - Photograph: Department of Mathematics and Physics

Photograph showing a student, identified as Charles Key, working with scientific apparatus. Another man behind is standing with his back to he camera.

Labelled on reverse 'Central Office of Information Photograph. Crown Copyright reserved (See Feature Set Into No.210 The Working Man's University: The First Polytechnic. The demand for evening education in Britain far exceeds facilities. After a full day's work a large proportion of the adult population hurry to evening institutes and polytechnics to learn, at a very low cost, the 'know-how' that modern industry and commerce insists of its workers. More than 11,000 people in the evenings, and 2,500 during the day attend courses for further education at the regent Street Polytechnic, where the twelve departments and three craft courses are designed almost exclusively for the vocational student who has reached the age of seventeen (there is no maximum age) and has passed Matriculation or an equivalent University entrance examination.'

Separately labelled 'D.47586 (12) At the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the Polytechnic Mr Charles Key is studying to take his BSc General Examination next year. Mr Key is a director of a surgical appliance manufacturers. As a business man he is a firm believer in knowing all about his product before trying to sell it. Now the firm has decided to manufacture scientific instruments as well as surgical instruments, forty-two-year-old Charles Key spends his evenings studying Physics.'