7th February, 2012
From the man that gave us the wonderful Sunny Colch ’86 video tour of Britain’s Oldest Recorded, here comes something else from the time tunnel of the town. We don’t think that youtube user TheWurn2 was around in the 1920′s, but the fine chap has now shared online a series of postcards featuring Sunny Colch [...]
7th February, 2012
HONK! Want to find the Colchester Gentle Giant? Clue – it’s probably *not* Sir Bob of Sunny Colch. We doubt if the Colchester umpa lumpa would measure up very well, either. Our friends from Slack Space however have the Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum fever. Well, at least for the afternoon of 25th March anyway. What [...]
7th February, 2012
Here’s a lovely little historical story coming out of Colchester, spreading across the Atlantic to Buffalo, and then back to Britain’s Oldest Recorded once again. It also involves a military link, a housing development and old artefacts found in a loft. History, history! We fools, what do we know or care. Quite a lot in [...]
6th February, 2012
Credit to Cllr Tim Young, the Colchester Borough Council cabinet member for Housing and Community Safety, who has gone public and explained in full the reasons as to why he is pushing through the recommendation to close two of the borough’s sheltered housing schemes in Joyce Brooks House and Abbeygate. Writing exclusively for the Colchester [...]
6th February, 2012
HONK! There are only ten days left in which to offer up any thoughts with regards the proposed three tier car park that our friends from the University of Essex want to plonk within Wivenhoe Park. This is a planning application that seems to have crept under the radar rather quietly. Locals in Wivenhoe certainly [...]
6th February, 2012
And so farewell National Express East Anglia and let us nor forget #NXEAfail. A big Hellooooo! …to Abellio. Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss? Here’s hoping that the changing of the guard at North Station brings in a change of service as well. As from 2am on Monday morning, Dutch transport [...]
5th February, 2012
Sunday morning in Sunny Colch and Britain’s Oldest Recorded was waking up to a winter playground for the remainder of the weekend. The real beauty of snow takes place in the short period after it has settled, and before the slush sets in. It seems that the consumers of the Sunny Colch nighttime economy [urgh] [...]
4th February, 2012
To @firstsite! …on Saturday afternoon for the opening day of the major new spring season at the Golden Goose. At the centerpiece of this is Culpable Earth, the first major solo exhibition from Steven Claydon. You can talk up the social value of any artist, dependent on the current fashions and possibly the tightness of [...]
3rd February, 2012
A planning application has bee submitted to Colchester Borough Council by the University of Essex, proposing the building of a multi-tier car park up on campus. The consultation period runs until 15th February. The large scale of the application suggests that this is a project that requires careful scrutiny and consideration from any residents living [...]
2nd February, 2012
With less than five months to go to mark the celebrations of Brenda’s accession to the throne (fnarr, fnarr) plans are being made all around the borough as to how the fine citizens of Sunny Colch can celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Over to the east in Wivenhoe and we hear that a hog roast [...]
