Morris Men, bat walks and ducks races – it’s all there in the current list of events [PDF] kindly put together by the lovely folk of @VisitColchester as we look ahead to a sunny summer here in… Sunny Colch. Having a great big green space, right in the backyard of out town centre is something [...]
Feel the Funk Man
22nd April, 2012
Summer’s here. Eh? Stick with us, we need this to work, Sunny Colch… Yep – summer’s here, which can only mean that it is time for some deep, booming, sexy as Sir Bob summer soul from the man with the funkiest hips in all of Britain’s Oldest Recorded. We’re talking about Greg Blackman of course, [...]
Back to the Colch Future
21st April, 2012
We love a good little online tease here at The Chronic, especially so if it involves hyperlocal history. Forget the megabuck trailers coming all the way over from Hollywood and being blasted at you as you settle down at The Odeon along Head Street – what you really want is a trailer for Colchester The [...]
Arts Centre Ahoy!
20th April, 2012
Cripes. It’s the most challenging Chronic blog post to write. It only comes around once a quarter, and it always leaves us feeling breathless, berated and rather buoyant. Nope – it’s not the Colchester Borough Council budget post, but the schedule for what’s coming up at the ACE Colchester Arts Centre. Hurrah! The new schedule [...]
Sisters Cycling for Themselves
20th April, 2012
It’s the two-wheel success story for Sunny Colch that keeps on giving. It keeps on giving blog posts, that is. Yep, with much excitement ahead of the Halfords Tour series rolling into Britain’s Oldest recorded early evening on 7th June, news comes our way at The Chronic that the big boys of bicycling are going [...]
Price of Democracy? £15k…
20th April, 2012
Here’s something that we alluded to a couple of months ago, but seems to have only recently caused a bit of an online kerfuffle with the local elections for Colchester Borough Council approaching: Adrian Pritchard, the Chief Executive of @yourcolchester was able to trouser £15,420.76 in 2011 / 12 for… being the Returning Officer [PDF] [...]
Minories Open Submissions
19th April, 2012
And so there you are, sitting back on the settee, watching the late news from BBC Look East, half-eaten kebab straddling your chin and a lager shandy in hand to see you off to bed. I think we’ve all been there, friends. And whaddya know – just as the regional weather drops a great big [...]
Community Colch Farming
19th April, 2012
For all the rapid expansion on campus at the University of Essex, it is nice to know that a small patch of land at Wivenhoe Park will always be a place in which to dig and sew. That’s *not* a euphemism for the Level 2 nightclub… Nope, our friends at the University are doing rather [...]
Coming to Sunny Colch…
19th April, 2012
We’re all for a bit of hyperlocal history here at The Chronic and you can’t get more historical than Britain’s Oldest Recorded. The history of Sunny Colch seems to be one of folk coming into the town, rather liking it, and then remaining here. Of course this arguments falls flat when you consider the Romans, [...]
QR for Sunny Colch
18th April, 2012
Cripes – Colchester is going all high tech with a series of QR boards being scattered around Britain’s Oldest Recorded. For those of you who still prefer your Roman sandals to your Ugg boots, QR is the technology that allows your clever smartphone to access a code, and then be presented with digital content related [...]