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Historic Colchester

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Roman Circus Colchester

Colchester, Roman Chariot Racing

The Romans in Colchester (4)

  The Colchester Sphinx was discovered in 1821 near the Balkerne Gate, It is a small statue of a mythical…

Colchester, Colchester Sphinx

The Romans in Colchester (3)

Another thing that stood out for me from our recent visit to Colchester Museum was the examples of locally manufactured…

Colchester

The Romans in Colchester (2)

Some interesting religious connections from our trip to Colchester Butt Road Church   In the 1980’s during the building of…

Butt Road Roman church, Colchester

The Romans in Colchester (1)

A trip with the History group to Colchester in Essex. Prior to the arrival of the Romans in Britain, Camulodunum…

Colchester

Colchester, Essex

I am away for the whole of this week so in my absence, the blog will be focusing on the…

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Synchronised flying

Continuing my delve back into old posts. Here is one of my favourite pictures which Sue took in 2013 in…

Mute Swan

Top Bird Photographs

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Photography

Naturelog: 7th January

First trip of the year for Keith and I to the London Wetland Centre. On arrival, we heard that a…

Bittern, London Wetland Centre, Northern Pintail, sparrowhawk

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