Welcome to the Colchester Civic Society Website
Thank you for visiting the Colchester Civic Society’s website. We hope that you will take time to explore it and to discover our hugely diverse range of activities, all aimed at making Colchester an even more special place to live, work and visit.
We would love to welcome you as a member of the Society, whether you want to take an active role, enjoy our programme of events or simply provide quiet support. You don’t have to live or work in the city to be a member. Please go to the ‘Join Us’ page for more information.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for on the website or have additional questions, please contact us at info@colchestercivicsociety.co.uk or telephone 07771626561.
Become a Member
Becoming a member is simple and costs just £11 per year for a single membership, £16 for a couple and £40 for a Business membership. Please join us.
What We Do
Click on the button below to see the full list of pages outlining the work we do. This includes Conservation Work (as shown in the photo above), Planning, Highways, Licensing, Eyes and Ears, Commemorative Plaques, Public Footpaths, Trees, Street Naming, Publications and Heritage Open Days
The Colchester Plaque Trails
This is a unique achievement created by members of our society with the help of Placecheck Online. Three Plaque Trails have been created for the town and can be followed using online maps on your mobile phone.
Each trail not only shows the position of many of Colchester’s plaques on a map, but also provides a photo for each one, along with comprehensive information about the person or place commemorated.
Follow this link for the plaques trails. When you have opened up a Trail, simply touch the blue dots in turn to bring up each plaque and accompanying information.
Colchester On Film
Latest News
Heritage Open Days for 2024
The Colchester Civic Society, like Civic Societies throughout the country, is involved with Heritage Open Days. Our members steward a number of the properties open to visitors during this event at the beginning of September each year. Heritage Open Days in 2024 will be held on 6th-15th September. For full information of what’s on
The Colchester Sculpture Survey
We have a survey of Colchester’s Sculptures now available to view. The survey originated from a request by Simon Cairns, the Development and Planning Manager at the Planning Department for the Civic Society to consider such a piece of research . There are two sections to this survey. The first being publicly accessible sculptures across the
Visit to Cannock Mill Cohousing
Colchester Civic Society Visit to Cannock Mill Our visit to Cannock Mill and the cohousing scheme of which the mill is now a part was hosted by Colchester Civic Society member David York. Thanks to David and some of his fellow members of the community we were made very welcome and provided with accounts of
Colchester’s Great Winter Clean, 15th January to 15th February 2024
If you love Colchester and loathe litter, here is an opportunity to help towards making Colchester ‘Britain’s first recorded litter-free city.’ The aim is to remove all the old litter and rubbish blighting the Borough, including cleaning up the numerous grot-spots. The target is to fill 1,000 to 2,000 bags. Why in the middle
Thirty Cast Iron Lampposts due to be lost with the changeover to LED lighting
An update on The Cast Iron Lamppost Project in 2023 from John Salmon. As many of you will know by now Colchester Civic Society is running a project for the stripping and repainting of Colchester’s cast iron lampposts. This began in 2020 and has now just completed it’s fourth year, with lampposts in Errington Road, Wickham
New Archive Film
Three more films have been added to our Colchester on Film Archive Section this month. There is a six minute colour film, with commentary covering the major retail developments of Lion Walk, Culver Square and also the St. John’s Street supermarket and multi storey car park, a film about the opening of the Mercury Theatre