Postcard 13

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Postcard 13

The Castle

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PS: If your PC has sound, you are listening a background music called 'Girls and Boys' by Blur from Colchester.
Blur

Colchester,
Essex - UK.

Britain's oldest recorded town.

In AD77 a Roman writer by the name of Pliny the Elder described the location of the Isle of Anglesey as being 'about 200 miles from Camulodunum, a town in Britain'. This was the Roman name for Colchester and is the earliest known reference to a fixed settlement in Britain, hence the claim to be Britain's oldest recorded town.


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