28th October, 2011
To @15QueenStreet! …early on a Thursday evening to celebrate the first birthday party of @ColchCircleMag. They certainly know how to party hard, these Sunny Colch types. No surprises that the 11:07 was the carriage awaiting the return of @AnnaJCowen and I back to Wivenhoe. Twelve months ago and it was the very same location where [...]
23rd October, 2011
The concept behind Colchester 24 was simple: capture on camera life in Britain’s Oldest Recorded during one twenty-four hour period in the early Autumn of 2011. It is a social experiment that was first put in place back in 1986. A quarter of a century later seems like the ideal timeframe in which to revisit [...]
20th October, 2011
To @firstsite! …on Thursday evening for a bit on the side. Not that sort Madam, but a bit of moonlighting mixed in with some Colchester social history. The event traded under the grand name of Camulodunum: Image and Reality. In short it was time to put up or shut up with all those long held [...]
8th October, 2011
To firstsite! …on Friday evening for a particularly crazed pageant to celebrate Sunny Colch’s St Denys, the patron saint of town traffic congestion. Or something. Actually, a brief bit of online research before entering Britain’s Oldest Recorded revealed that yer man Denny is the: “patron saint of frenzy, strife, headaches, hydrophobia, rabies and possessed people.” [...]
1st October, 2011
The first night of the Bike Guru’s Cafe and Cycle Workshop at the Hidden Kiosks in Colchester opened up the possibilities for what lies ahead. Friday evening proved the point that there is the demand for a social space in the town that can cater for something slightly different to what you might experience along [...]
