After the ill fated county of Humberside was created in 1974 Grimsby College of Technology decided that a new name was required to face the new age. Seeking to establish itself as the preeminent place of learning in the county below the Humber it decided to rename itself the South Humberside Institute of Technology, until somebody started to play with the initials to design a logo.....allegedly.
Thats remarkably believable!!!
Indeed. Similar to what is now Northumbria University, which for a (very short) while was likely to be transformed from Newcastle Polytechnic into the City University of its host city, which is of course, in full, Newcastle upon Tyne. Oops!
Dangerous things, acronyms...
