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No cropping you say? Let’s have a thread of tall stuff in Colchester then.
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is the Victoria Tower, AKA the Town Hall. Standing a cool 59m tall.
is the Victoria Tower, AKA the Town Hall. Standing a cool 59m tall.
Jumbo Water Tower is a mighty 40m tall.
The mighty @Uni_of_Essex North Towers. At the time of construction the tallest brick built structures in Europe.
It's Layer Marney Tower - the tallest tudor gatehouse in Britain!
Colchester's war memorial is said to be one of the finest in the country.
Trinity Church tower dates back to the Anglo Saxons, making it the oldest standing building in town. It’s distinctive shape was a feature on the Colchester skyline for centuries.
“Walking woman”, an artwork by Sean Henry plays with size and places an unusually tall woman on the High Street.
In 1884 the top of Lion Walk church spire collapsed in the great earthquake that shook the town.
Great addition to our tall stuff thread! The @ColchesterArts tower was destroyed more than 200 years before the Lion Walk tower by cannonfire in the civil war. You can clearly see where it's been rebuilt. https://twitter.com/barthyxvix/status/1390271824353763329
