Interesting to read the Standard last week with the call for Colchester to be become a World Heritage Site. What an odd suggestion for a town that clearly has quite the opposite ideas for itself. Our council has clearly demonstrated over many years that its only interest is building houses all over the place, clogging up our roads with more and more cars, having the highest parking charges in Essex to deter shoppers and visitors alike, closing down our schools, selling off our assets, giving nothing to culture or heritage - unless there is a profit in it, etc. etc. What have we got that might possibly qualify us as a World Heritage Site?
The largest Norman castle ever built, standing on top of a 2000 year old Roman temple?
Nah!
The fact that we are the oldest recorded town in Britain?
Nah!
The fact that Colchester was once King Arthur's Camelot?
Nah!
The most complete Roman wall around any town in Britain, with the most intact Roman gateway as part of it?
Nah!
The site of not one but two Roman theatres - something that occurs nowhere else in Britain?
Nah!
The location of where the Roman emperor Claudius came in AD43 to the most powerful and influential location in Britain to take the surrender of eleven tribal kings?
Nah!
The location of the only know Roman Circus - on a par with Ben Hur's Circus Maximus in Rome?
Nah!
The birthplace of the discoverer of electricity, and who gave electricity its name?
Nah!
Where 20 Colchester men lived and fought at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Nah!
Where the jealous Tories in Chelmsford are doing its level best in gradually squeezing the life out of us in every which way it can, to finance its final salary pension schemes for its workers?
Now that's interesting!
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