Posted below is the information to accompany the Looking Up At Colchester page which came with the December 2024 Newsletter. If you wish to view the Looking Up At Colchester page then follow this link 20240724-LOOKING-UP-AT-COLCHESTER-__-revision-4-1.pdf Looking Up: information on places (Please note that the accuracy of the information contained here is currently
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Visit To Jumbo Some of our members took the opportunity to climb up inside the water tower in January 2023. The Colchester and North East Essex Building Preservation Trust, who are now the lease holders, hosted two parties of members on this visit and others, who did not feel up to the long climb,
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Colchester officially became a city on Wednesday, 23 November, when the letters patent – an official document written on parchment – was presented to the mayor during a special meeting of the Full Council. As part of the media presentations of the event Jo Edwards agreed to be interviewed by BBC Essex on our behalf.
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Colchester Civic Society’s project to renovate our cast iron lampposts is now in it’s third year. In the previous two years more than forty of Colchester’s historic cast iron lampposts, most of which were made in local foundries during the early years of the twentieth century, have been stripped and repainted. This year teams in
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