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• Rose and Crown pub. Charlie Browns.
• The Jumbo water tower..i remember when they sold it there was a big protest about it and people were handing out flyers and badges saying save jumbo!! but i suppose thats not really a building..i like the arts centre and the mercury theatre.
• Jumbo is threatened by an oh-so-clever promotion which pretends to be a leisure attraction but is 90% private penthouse. The owner has spent a fortune persuading people that replacing the tank with a glass box for him to live in is a wonderful idea. If you have any feeling about this see http://www.savejumbo.org.uk and lobby your councillor from the site. Save Jumbo for Colchester!
• Well I supposed Jumbo (the water tower) because it sounds like a big cartoon elephant.
• Jumbo!!
• The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Swan Close was built in less than two days (thirty one hours to be precise) by 1,500 volunteers from around the UK. Glad I didn't have to make tea for everybody!
• colchester arts centre, a beautiful deconcecrated church, its so pretty and has great gigs!

• The one in castle park with the completely ivy covered wall. Looks damn cool whent he wind blows, all wavy
• i love castle park
• colchester castle, the temple underneath is great!
• fluid!
• The arts centre is lovely.
• the Hole
• Jumbo - should be made into flats.

• the plyhouse
• My house, because I live there.
• all the pubs
• act one bar. st marys church (the arts centre)
• liesure world
• Jumbo the Roman Wall where ever it pops up Greyfriars- used as an adult education centre but a place wiv history a ghost or two and interesting corridors that u can get lost in
• The Town Hall and The Main Hall at Severalls .....Pity if they demolish it
• The Water Tower - don't know why but it just always been there and is vaguely reassuring.
• colchester castle of course!
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• Williams & griffin car park is great, loads of angry skaters but a great place to get up high and throw things
• The Old Gilberd School (6th form college I think now)
• The water tower, the castle, Leisure World, plenty of things to do for the young ones
• the castle of course!
• Colchester Royal Grammar School buildings.
• Jumbo has to be the most impressive building in town. Unused, and still no long-term plans as to what the heck to do with it. It's a huge victorian water tower on great big chunky legs (Hence 'Jumbo').
• Jumbo is threatened by an oh-so-clever promotion which pretends to be a leisure attraction but is 90% private penthouse. The owner has spent a fortune persuading people that replacing the tank with a glass box for him to live in is a wonderful idea. If you have any feeling about this see www.aw00.dial.pipex.com and lobby your councillor from the site. Save Jumbo for Colchester!
• Jumbo the water tower
• The 6th form
• The boys' Grammar School.
• Siege House, The Mill, The Castle, Jumbo, The Town Hall, the list goes on.
• Old bits of the 6th Form College, if you look out on the train in from London you can spot it and Jumbo and the town hall up on the hill.
• Its not a building, but I recall the ancient Dykes out Stanway way, at least they were there when I lived in Colchester in 70-72 as a young Australian visiting and suffering at Stanway Secondary School.
• The Town Hall is a magnificent looking building, or some of the tudor-esque houses in the old Dutch Quarter are great and Jumbo is brilliant
• Jumbo the water tower.
• Playhouse- If only for the cardboard cut-out klingon in the upper circle, and the table alcoves you and your SO can disappear into for a quiet dinner.

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