Meetings
image above courtesy: One Square Mile: Heritage on our Doorstep project. Photo by Adrian Rushton
The picture above was taken at our April 2024 meeting - all about St John Green's School. It shows some of the pupils who had been involved in a project and who livened up the meeting with their enthusiastic involvement!
Monthly meetings are held at the Roman Circus Centre (see map below) as detailed in the programme below, and commence at 11.00 am (with coffee from 10.45 am). They follow our traditional format, begining with an oral history segment and followed by an illustrated talk on an aspect of our local history.
2024
- Monday September 16th - Claire Driver: Bombardo and Balkerne Barrows: Colchester’s Lord Roberts Memorial Workshop
- Monday October 14th - Michael Siggs: 'Colchester Alms Houses'
- Monday November 18th - Tony Friedlander: 'The Nazi, My mother and Me'
- Monday December 16th - Patrick Denney: Annual Quiz & Video to follow
2025
- Monday January 20th - John Worland on ‘Colchester and the great Essex witch trial of 1645.’
- Monday February 17th - Pam Cox MP ‘On becoming an MP: a steep learning curve.
- Monday March 17th - Andy Moore ‘Colchester Zoo: 50 years of Conservation.’
- Monday April 14th - Francis Terry ‘What way the Future of Colchester’s Roman Circus?’
- Monday May 12th - Andrew English ‘Red Hills: a Marshland Mystery’
< above Left: Colchester Recalled played a part in recording these 2020 archaeological explorations at low tide which uncovered a mammoth tusk.
> above Right: This package of photos and sound bites compiled by Colchester Recalled about life on the Home Front was distributed by Essex Education Committee for use in their Secondary Schools. Later it became one of our CDs (see CDs & Magazines)
Roman Circus Centre, Roman Circus Walk, Colchester, CO2 7GZ
image above courtesy: One Square Mile: Heritage on our Doorstep project. Photo by Adrian Rushton
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