All grown up and gowned up

It's the graduation season for two of the Manchester Universities- This photo was snapped on my phone in the week- with the imposing Catholic church and glorious Romanesque-Grecian frontage of the Arts building looming over the lawns and marquee, with graduates and proud families and friends in attendance. I wonder if the ceremonies and processes have changed much since the first graduates at the University of Manchester in the 1820s?...