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Last chance! See originals of period postcards, documents and photographs from Grey Friars Convent School, CCHS and…

Free guided tours of the site now booking; Free exhibition will be open all day each day….

Ever wonder what used to be in the empty niches in the western and southern boundary walls?…

CCHS at Grey Friars in1920, posed on the school field with The Foresters, Castle Road in the…

“Really Useful Knowledge”, a book commemorating Colchester’s lifelong learning heritage has been out of print for some…

“Learning Never Stops” was the charity developed by former staff and governors after Essex County Council closed…

 The Grey Friars site was significant in the Civil War in two ways. Click for explanation> Grey Friars…

Rare opportunity! To print your own copy click> HOD 2023

With the location of Colchester’s Roman amphitheatre still a mystery could the rectangular Grey Friars site within…

It’s two decades since the last prospectus was issued under local management for Grey Friars as an…

The FREE Heritage Open Days events are booking fast for Sept 11th and 18th. Click link> www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/greyfriars Don’t…

DON’T MISS THIS! Grey Friars will be open for a FREE exhibition / display on the history…

At one time, from the 1200s onwards, the Grey Friars site covered the whole rectangle of ground…

For a printable copy click>Grey Friars then and now

Thank you for your past interest in our charity’s activities. This is to inform you that the Executive…

A feature about Grey Friars as an adult college has surfaced. Over 20 yrs ago, Grey Friars…

We’ve known about this print, preserved in the Essex Record Office, for some time. It was thought…

It’s now nearly 15 years since Essex County Council sold Grey Friars to developers, ending Colchester’s home-grown…

The 1891 sale in lots split up the residue of the Grey Friars estate (after the section…

The last family to have Grey Friars as their home, the Fenns sold the site to nuns…