#OnThisDay - 1 May 1842, a fire destroyed St Peter's Vicarage which stood on the High Street where the Co-op bank (ex Albert Hall/ Corn Exchange) now stands.

Every Tuesday we test and tease folk with our weekly

#WhereAndWhatIsIt
#Colchester Conundrum

So just how much do you see when you walk the ancient streets of #Colchester ?

Here's this week's little challenge.

We'll post the answer on Friday afternoon.

Nothing wrong with towers. Create places which are fun to live in or look at.

(Of course new Part O Building Regs would make this almost impossible to build today 😔 😠😢 )

#OnThisDay - 30 April 1888, the Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Colchester Swimming Club was held at the Town Hall by permission of the Mayor.
‘Punctual attendance of members and their Friends desired.’

Sometimes “big brands” tell planning authorities or business districts that they “must” have loud and garish fascias to “go” with their brand colouring. It’s always nonsense. They don’t.

#OnThisDay - 29 April 1942, messages calling-out Canadian Artillerymen whose guns had been mounted around the outskirts of Colchester, were flashed across cinema screens in the town.

🌟 Celebrating a new walking route in Colchester! 🌟

🚶‍♀️ Walk With Words connects the City Centre with the University & Greenstead. 🌳 The first chance to walk the route is on 11 May as part of Jane's Walks Festival. Interactive signposts will be installed later in the year.

Oh wow! 🤩 The Northern Lights above Riverside Estate in Colchester! This rare sight, captured last week, was due to a particularly strong geomagnetic storm caused by increased solar activity. 🌌 Scientists think it will become more common in the near future!

📷: Lynn Sampson

#OnThisDay - 27 April 1961, at the Layer Road Ground – home of #Colchester United - a TV All Stars Xl played Benny Fenton’s Xl in a charity football match in aid of the Printers’ Pension Corporation.

More:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Fen…

#OnThisDay - 25 April 1660, Sir Harbottle Grimston, MP for #Colchester was elected Speaker of the House of Commons. In the Civil War, he remained a Parliamentarian but had Royalist sympathies. His house was burned during the 1648 #SiegeOfColchester .

More:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Harbo…

… the context. Is there any recent building as greedy? Like a school bully glowering of a smaller child.

Two approaches to facing a central London street: a pattern of forms & features or a grid of prison bars, the humane or the heartless and …

National Grid are starting a statutory public consultation regarding the proposed Norwich to Tilbury project.

This involves an upgrade to the electricity transmission connection - and lots of pylons!

The consultation closes on 18 June.

More:

nationalgrid.com/n-t

#OnThisDay - 24 April 1843William Wire notes in his diary:

'...North Bridge being impassable, a temporary bridge is erected on the West side of it by a company of gentlemen and to pay for it the following charges are made...for a horse, or a cart drawn by a donkey, 1d...”