Colchester History Tour Revised Edition

Author : Patrick Denney
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144569395X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colchester History Tour Revised Edition written by Patrick Denney and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised guided tour of the historic town of colchester, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.

Author : Patrick Denney
Publisher : Tempus Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752432144
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colchester written by Patrick Denney and published by Tempus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once regarded as the capital of Roman Britain, the town of Colchester has witnessed many events and seen many changes during its long history. This book describes the town's history from early Celtic origins and Roman settlement, through civil war and plague, Victorian enterprise and social reform, to the growth of industry and modern Colchester during the twentieth century. Despite the tremendous amount of new building work undertaken in the town, there remains an interesting mix of old and new. The book includes a walking tour of the town that starts and finishes at the War Memorial and guides the reader to places of historical interest in and around the town centre. It can be referred to independently of the main text of the book and enables both resident and visitor alike to embark on a journey into Colchester's past through its existing streets and buildings.

Author : Patrick Denney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445646251
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colchester History Tour written by Patrick Denney and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Denney takes us on a tour of Colchester through the ages, explaining the history behind the well-known landmarks of this fine town. We will pass by Colchester Castle, the largest Norman keep in Europe, and step back in time to the 1900s to witness a troop of circus elephants make their way along Crouch Street. There is a glimpse into the Colchester of the First World War, as we see troops arriving in Head Street around this time. We then make our way to the 1940s with a touching scene from the annual remembrance service at the war memorial, which is not to be missed. From museums to the town hall and St John’s Abbey gatehouse, this charming collection of new and old photographs document the transformation of the town centre perfectly – horses and traps being replaced by cars.

Author : Andrew Phillips
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750987502
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colchester written by Andrew Phillips and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be published for over half a century, during which time our knowledge of the town's past has grown immeasurably. The Iron-Age capital of King Cunobelin (Shakespeare's Cymbeline), Colchester was the target of the Roman invasion in AD 43. Where the Emperor Claudius received its submission, the Romans built a legionary fortress, the framework of which still forms the centre of Colchester. As capital of Roman Britain, Colchester was overrun and burnt by the warrior queen Boudica (aka Boadicea), then rebuilt and ringed by its famous walls. After Rome fell and the Saxon incursions began, the Saxon King Edward the Elder made it the leading town in Essex. The Normans raised its profile higher, when an Abbey, a Priory and a great castle gave it the strategic defence of Eastern England. It was besieged only once, when King John was in conflict with his barons over Magna Carta. For 400 years Colchester's cloth industry placed it among the top fifteen towns in the kingdom. It saw Protestants burnt at the stake, withstood a Civil War siege, was ravaged by plague and stood in the front line against invasion, first by Napoleon, then by the Kaiser, then by Hitler. An important engineering town since Victorian times, it is today a regional shopping centre, a major garrison town and a popular tourist attraction. This authoritative, readable and well illustrated work, from a professional historian, will doubtless become the standard work on this ancient town for at least the next half-century.

Author : Patrick Denney
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445675153
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Colchester written by Patrick Denney and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the secret history of Colchester, reputedly the oldest recorded town in Britain, with this fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

Author : Charles ABBOT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The diary and correspondance of ---,Lord Colchester,speaker of the House of Commons 1802-1817 written by Charles ABBOT and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lord Charles Abbot Colchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester written by Lord Charles Abbot Colchester and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bygone Essex written by William Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Longmans, Green and co
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on books written by Longmans, Green and co and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: