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part of display area

Things are cranking up for the move in a serious way now. Clearing and painting in the old army education centre is happening every day now but there is a huge amount to do. The building has electricity again – its arrival was a huge…

May 18 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »

Trust buys circus interpretation centre »

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Wow! BIG event yesterday. The purchase of the former Army Education Centre was finally completed – the building now belongs to CAT! It’s been a long hard process but we finally made it and we now look forward with considerable eagerness to getting on with…

May 12 2012 / No Comment / Read More »
Circus

Circus interpretation centre another step closer »

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An interpretation centre for Colchester’s Roman circus moved one step closer to reality when the Borough Council approved  our planning application for the proposed conversion…

Sep 15 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

More circus discovered »

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Further traces of the Roman circus were uncovered recently during work on the pavement on the north side of Napier Road. Several spreads of rubble…

Jun 3 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

Plans for interpretation centre revealed »

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  We have just submitted the planning application for a change of use of the former Army Education Centre and our solicitor has started the…

Apr 19 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

Interpretation centre – one step closer »

The Charity Bank approved CAT’s application for a mortgage and brought the circus interpretation centre one step closer to reality. A figure of £168,000 has…

Feb 18 2011 / No Comment / Read More »
News

Volunteers wanted

part of display area

Things are cranking up for the move in a serious way now. Clearing and painting in the old army education centre is happening every day now but there…

May 18 2012 / Read More »

Trust buys circus interpretation centre

RomanCircusHouse

Wow! BIG event yesterday. The purchase of the former Army Education Centre was finally completed – the building now belongs to CAT! It’s been a long hard process…

May 12 2012 / Read More »

Army helps with move to the Roman circus

Soldiers check out old bones

Moving out from our home for the last thirty years will be no mean task. It’s a small building but it was crammed with archaeological evidence from lots…

Mar 3 2012 / Read More »

Volunteers start work on the new circus interpretation centre

Last weekend, volunteers got stuck into turning the former Army Education Centre near the Abbey Field into a visitor centre for the Roman circus and a permanent base…

Mar 3 2012 / Read More »
Features

An Ossian connection in Essex?

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The true nature of the Braxted folly in Braxted Park, Essex, has been in question. The building has been variously described as an ice house, a bath-house, a…

Apr 19 2011 / Read More »

About St John’s Abbey

From Colchester Archaeological Report 1 . (iii) The accounts of the foundation and early history of St John’s Abbey There are four key texts relating to the early…

Mar 9 2011 / Read More »

‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ – Colchester!

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In AD 43, Claudius led his army in triumph into Camulodunon, stronghold of the late British king Cunobelin. Could Julius Caesar have done the same a hundred years…

Jan 10 2011 / Read More »

Druids in Colchester?

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Mention the Druids to the media and you’ve got yourself a story or two. And that’s what happened with the Stanway site. Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology,…

Jan 10 2011 / Read More »
History

HG Wells and the Colchester connection

HG Wells with his wife Jane in c 1895

  The History of Mr Polly is an account of a disillusioned and bored shopkeeper in the clothing business whose little shop was located in the busy High…

Jan 10 2011 / Read More »

Survivor of the 1881 earthquake

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The most destructive earthquake known in Britain happened at 9.18 am, on April 22nd 1884. In Colchester, it was just an ordinary bright sunlit morning. Then, in a…

Jan 5 2011 / Read More »
Friends' events

INVITATION TO VISIT THE ROMAN CIRCUS AND CAT’S NEW PREMISES

The offices of CAT will be moving to the former Education Centre Building on the site of the ex-Garrison early in the New Year and there will be…

Jan 10 2012 / Read More »

Sunday 22nd July Visit to Sedgeford/Binham Priory in Norfolk

Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project will be continuing to look for evidence of settlement and the possibility of iron working in this area. They have offered to…

Jan 5 2012 / Read More »

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