King Kong appears behind the giant doors
#AdventDoor Day 24.
Kara ta ni, Kong!
O taro vey, Rama Kong!
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Today, on #ChristmasEve, we bring you our last 2025 #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity.
This absolutely splendid and ancient #AngloSaxon gem from Holy Trinity Church dates from c1000 AD & is the #OldestDoorway 'within the walls'.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/monument/mcc412
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, we bring you this side door from the Grade ll* listed, 12th century (or earlier) church of St James The Great on East Hill. The walls are of flint, septaria rubble & #Roman brick partly faced with knapped flints.
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester #BritainsFirstCity, we bring you #StBotolphsPriory.
OK we grant you there's no actual "door" there anymore but, frankly, that doesn't detract from the magnificence of this Grade l listed #historic gem.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/monument/mcc425
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity we bring you this rather distinctive and unusual door from the former Allen and Sons butchers shop on St Botolph's Street.
What a gem...
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester #BritainsFirstCity we bring you a reminder of the dark days of #WW2 with this gem.
It's the door to a rare surviving "surface" air raid shelter in the grounds of the 1961 built St James' School in Guildford Road.
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester we bring you this splendidly ancient door (with face carvings) from the grade ll* listed 3-6 West Stockwell Street.
The building - now solicitor's offices, dates from the 15th century - perhaps c1430.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/monument/mcc55
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For Today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester we bring you 94 Maldon Road - "The Cloisters".
The house was built by Henry Jones a former town clerk and councillor - from parts of St Runwald's church that stood in the High St., until demolished in 1878.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/monument/mcc...
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Gary Lockwood is behind a force field door in the Enterprise brig in the Star Trek episode Where No Man Has Gone Before
#AdventDoor Day 17.
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, we bring you this imposing neo Georgian doorway with its broken pediment from the former public library in Shewell Walk. Now home to Søstrene Grene, it opened as a library in 1948.
More:
catuk.org/building/5-s...
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, we bring you both the front and back of this fine C16 door of 12 moulded panels with lozenge shaped enrichment. It can be found on the Grade ll listed houses at 16-17 East Hill.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/Event/ECC443
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You'll find today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity at Orial House on North Hill.
Built as offices in the 1960s, the building was home to #Essex County Newspapers for over 40 years until converted for residential use in 2015.
More:
www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/1181474...
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Today we bring you not one #AdventDoor from #Colchester,
but three - decorated in the festive colours of green and red.
You can find these two Grade ll listed 17th century tenements at 13-15 Northgate Street in the splendid #DutchQuarter.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/Monument/MCC...
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Mersea Road is home to this rather unusual, and decidedly unfestive looking, part cropped-off and infilled #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity
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This splendid #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity belongs to #SmithsWineBar in Church Street.
The door isn't "ancient" nor perhaps particularly "old" but hey it - and indeed the whole frontage - is quite an art deco gem. We hope y'all like it...
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It may be December but today's #AdventDoor and the adjacent wall at Cafe Med in Trinity Street here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, somehow still seems to exude warmth and memories of lazy Mediterranean afternoons...
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For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity here are the splendid heavy double doors - usually kept open - leading from the High Street into Red Lion Yard.
The #RedLionHotel itself is Grade 1 listed and dates from c1481/2...
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/blog/the-red...
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