Our members, supporters and friends were out and about litter-picking in #Colchester City Centre today on their second group litter-pick of this year's #GreatBritishSpringClean.
As a result, 29 bags of assorted grot were cleared from the ancient streets of #BritainsFirstCity
#OnThisDay - the Ides of March, way back in 44BC., Julius Caesar was assasinated. More recently, on 15 March 1679, #JohnWinnock set up a charity and Almshouses at Golden Noble Hill in St Giles Parish here in #Colchester.
#BritainsFirstCity. A City with a proud #RomanHeritage.
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Today our members, supporters and friends cleared, not one but 63 bags of grot from 'The Moors' a fantastic 'wild' space along the banks of the River Colne here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity.
We were really chuffed with our efforts - but we know we barely scratched the surface.
Some might call it 'qwerky' or 'specialist' but surely #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, needs qwerky, specialist, local independent outlets just as much - if not more - than it needs national and international chains
@incolchester
#Whatdyathink?
More:
www.gazette-news.co.uk/lifestyle/bu...
#Colchester England’s oldest recorded town and a city rich in history, continues to charm its residents with a unique blend of heritage, culture, and community spirit.
#PositiveAboutColchester
#BritainsFirstCity
#CivicPride
More:
www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2587841...
Work by @EssexHighways at the Albert Roundabout here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity looks to be almost finished.
It seems strange though that the Highways Authority seems to think Colne Bank Avenue is now called North Station Road!!!
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If you've got #CivicPride.
If you think it's important to help make #Colchester #ACityWorthLivingIn
if you're interested in our #Heritage that oozes from every stone and timber of #BritainsFirstCity then join us for just £0.03 a day.
Join online now:
colchestercivicsociety.co.uk/join-us/
#SeenReportedSorted
It's taken a long, long time but the #YellowMat that's been adorning the pavement in Crouch Street here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity for quite a few years, has now, at last, gone.
Miracles do happen!
@EssexHighways @YourColchester
A team of our members, supporters and friends have again been out and about about litter picking as part of our #Colchester #WinterClean Fortnight (5-18 January).
There are now over twenty less bags of litter and associated grot on the #historic streets of #BritainsFirstCity.
If you've got #CivicPride.
If you think it's important to help make #Colchester #ACityWorthLivingIn
if you're interested in our #Heritage that oozes from every stone and timber of #BritainsFirstCity then join us for just 0.03 a day.
Join online now:
colchestercivicsociety.co.uk/join-us/
We find it interesting that as far back as 1379, the authorities in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity
prescribed an area - now Vineyard Street - where prostitution would be allowed - or at least tolerated...
But, as this #OTD snippet highlights, woe betide those who stray...
Tonight, yet another year in the long #history of #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity draws to a close.
Our City has seen war, plague, revolution and much more. It has been right at the heart of #Britain's Civic, Industrial and Military #History.
May it continue to thrive in 2026
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
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.
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
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...
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.
We really hope you're enjoying our #AdventDoors series of posts.
We have so, so many #Distinctive and #SpendidDoors here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity that it's becoming a bit of a problem which ones to feature in this final week before #Christmas.
We will though try.
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...
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
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...
Anyone and everyone who can spare an hour or two - or more - to help make #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity an even better place to live iN, work in or visit would be more than welcome ...
#CivicPride
#LoveColchesterLoatheLitter
#MakingADifference
#PositiveAboutColchester
Mersea Road is home to this rather unusual, and decidedly unfestive looking, part cropped-off and infilled #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity
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...
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...
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...
For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, we bring you this relatively modern looking door in the side wall of 64 North Station Road. It's most unusual & interesting feature is clearly how folk are expected to get up to, and down from it...
Red is very much one of the colours of #Christmas.
This strikingly red #AdventDoor is brought to you today from West Stockwell Street (formerly Angel Lane) in the #DutchQuarter here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity.
For today's #AdventDoor from #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity, we bring you from #ColchesterCastle, this rather splendid and very robust looking gaol door - probably dating from the 16th or 17th century...
Here we bring you today's #AdventDoor from the delightful 'Gimber Cottage' on St Johns Green here in #Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity.
With its gothic style arched door (and windows), this red brick, grade ll listed cottage dates from 1823.
More:
colchesterheritage.co.uk/Designation/...
