Colchester Heritage Tours

29/08/2024

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25/08/2024

Really enjoyable walk with members of SELOC , SE Lotus Owners Club, always keeping to the speed limits ! and enjoying a walk that ended with lunch at the George

23/08/2024

17/08/2024

Balkerne Gate, a 1st-century Roman gateway in Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester), is the largest surviving gateway in Roman Britain.

15/08/2024

14/08/2024

18/07/2024

Our new tour for September.
Walking with Witches.
Watch this space!

05/07/2024

The Swan at Lavenham is a hotel steeped with history. This video is a walk through of the hotel’s unique story with references to the part the building playe...

20/06/2024

Tudor and Medieval Colchester Guided Tour.
12pm Mercury Theatre Saturday 29th June.

18/06/2024

Check out our revamped website, it has all our upcoming tour dates and how to book.

We are a group of tour guides in Colchester, offering themed walking tours, and also driver-guided excursions throughout East Anglia. We also offer storytelling events and occasional amateur dramatics. Specific themes include; Haunted Colchester. Colchester, a Roman city revealed. Tudor and Medieval

13/06/2024

Colchester Guided Tour - Sunday - 1pm - Mercury Theatre - £10

23/05/2024

Private Guided Tours of Dedham.
Now available to book, phone; 07967884540 for details.
Local Green Badge Guide.

23/05/2024

21/05/2024

Victorian and Georgian Guided Tour.
Saturday 25th of May.
2pm War Memorial.
£10, £5 concessions.
Expert Guide, Diane.
Enquiries: 07967884540.

21/05/2024

Colchester Heritage Tours are a locally based co-operative, offering public and private walking tours and events.The subsidiary English Countryside Tours offer driver / guided private tours for up to six people throughout East Anglia.

20/05/2024

Find out more about the Victorian and Georgian eras on our tour this Saturday at 2pm from Colchester war memorial. £10 adults £5 accompanied children.

Queen Victoria was a voracious reader . Among her favourites were 4 of the most prominent authors of the century :Dickens, Bronte , Elliot and Tennyson . Two most famous people of the age finally met at Windsor Castle -when Victoria was 51 and Dickens 58 .
It was March 1870 , and within weeks the creator of Oliver Twist , Mr Pickwick ,David Copperfield , Scrooge and Little Dorrit was dead . In her journal Queen Victoria write “ he had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy for the poorest classes . He felt sure that a better feeling and greater union of the classes would take place in time “
Credit Sean Byrne

13/05/2024

Private guided tours of the beautiful Essex village of Coggeshall with a qualified green badge tour guide.
07967884540
[email protected]

12/05/2024

10/05/2024

Wonderful place to visit

Some of the team enjoying coffee break in the courtyard this morning. We are so happy to see that beautiful sunshine!

06/05/2024

Tudor and Medieval England.

01/05/2024

The grave of the Roman girl, at the base of the Gherkin, London.

30/04/2024

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Jade Bran, Jason Everson

21/04/2024

SHIRES: The system was initially adopted in the kingdom of Wessex with the onset of Anglo-Saxon settlement and expanded across the majority of England in the tenth century, coinciding with the political ascendancy of the West Saxon kingdom. The historic counties of England — red indicates "-shire" counties, orange indicates where the "-shire" suffix is occasionally used. 👇

https://medievalhistoria.com/from-scir-to-shire-the-ancient-division-of-great-britain/

12/04/2024

Historic Colchester Guided Tour.
From the Roman occupation through to the Middle Ages, and on to the Georgian and Victorian periods right up to the city we have today. All in one tour, with an expert guide.
Saturday April 13th. 12.30pm Mercury Theatre. Only £8

10/04/2024

If you are in Colchester on Saturday why not go on a guided tour of this Historic town?
Meet historian Ian at the Mercury Theatre close to St Mary’s car park at 12.30 only £8 on the day, or advance tickets here 👇🏻

Join us for an interesting and informative guided tour of the historic town of Colchester!

09/04/2024

Raven Branwen doing his best to promote the Ravens Shop at the Tower of London 😍

More brainbox than birdbrain, these ravens are highly intelligent creatures. Did you know that ravens have:

✔️ sharp memories & they can even hold grudges

✔️ keen forward planning skills

✔️ superior cognitive skills; their problem solving abilities are similar to children under seven years old

✔️ skills to fashion tools

One genius corvid, known as 007, completed eight separate stages of a puzzle in the right order!

Meet the Einstein ravens at The Tower of London with

📷 Danny Parlour, London Blue Badge Tourist Guide

Historic Royal Palaces