The Purple Dog

The Co-Oper­a­tive Bank is based at the top of Colch­ester High Street. Placed inside one of Colch­ester’s old­est build­ings, it is not only great for all your bank­ing needs, it is also beau­ti­ful to look at.

We will lock you up in a mys­te­ri­ous escape room, and give you exact­ly 60 min­utes to get out.

In order to beat the live escape game you and your team must solve many puz­zles, rid­dles, brain teasers and iden­ti­fy clues.

Using your pow­ers of obser­va­tion and prob­lem solv­ing you and your team will have to work togeth­er to escape and achieve any tar­gets set by the room.

Barnar­do’s pro­tect and sup­port the UK’s most vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren. We help bring out the best in them – no mat­ter who they are or what they have been through. For every £1 you donate, we spend 91p on work­ing with chil­dren and young people.

We are a friend­ly, car­ing and pro­fes­sion­al inde­pen­dent opti­cians based on the High Street in Colch­ester, pro­vid­ing a full range of eye care ser­vices includ­ing eye exam­i­na­tions, con­tact lens­es, all types of frames & lens­es, sun­glass­es and much more.

Bank from sav­ing for a rainy day to buy­ing a home, we’ll pro­vide every­thing you could want from a bank. All our branch­es are open Mon­day to Sat­ur­day and you can access our ser­vices online and by telephone.

A vis­it to Colch­ester Cas­tle is bet­ter than ever before with inter­ac­tive dis­plays and star exhibits, like the Colch­ester Glad­i­a­tor Vase and Fen­wick Hoard of Roman treasure. 

Have a go at build­ing a Nor­man arch­way, dress­ing as an Iron Age Britain or steer­ing a Roman char­i­ot. Be wowed as a large scale pro­jec­tion trans­forms the east wall with light and sound. 

Tours, led by expert guides, are offered dai­ly and can take you down into the Roman vaults and up onto the Cas­tle roof.

Cas­tle Fish and Grill Is A Take­away In Colch­ester, We Serve Great Tast­ing Burg­ers, Kebabs, Wraps, Chick­en Dish­es And Desserts.

Bar­clays moves, lends, invests and pro­tects mon­ey for cus­tomers and clients world­wide. Our com­mon Pur­pose is ​‘Cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to rise’. We are a com­pa­ny of oppor­tu­ni­ty mak­ers work­ing togeth­er to help peo­ple rise – cus­tomers, clients, col­leagues and soci­ety. Vis­it us in our Colch­ester branch!

PERi-PERi is the heart and soul of Nando’s. Its sto­ry is our sto­ry. For cen­turies the peo­ple of South­east Africa have used PERi-PERi to bring fire to their food. It is in Mozambique’s rich soil and blis­ter­ing sun­shine that the African Bird’s Eye Chilli grows into its fiery best. When Por­tuguese explor­ers arrived there, they were enchant­ed by its flavour. They added a squeeze of lemon and a kick of gar­lic and turned PERi-PERi into a very well-trav­elled spice. Which is how, many years lat­er it end­ed up in Roset­tenville, Johannesburg.

One after­noon in 1987, two friends went for lunch at a hum­ble Por­tuguese eatery. As their meal drew to a close, they knew they’d tast­ed some­thing that had to be shared. PERi-PERi was about to make one more jour­ney – from Roset­tenville to the world

Sit­u­at­ed on the main high street of Colch­ester the venue build­ing dates back to 1905 when it was the Grand Palace of Vari­eties some­thing of which is tried to kept alive today with a Grand Vari­ety of dif­fer­ent rooms of enter­tain­ment. Today the beau­ti­ful and orig­i­nal ornate ceil­ing and bal­conies are still on full view for all to admire and com­plete­ly enhanced by our state of the art light­ing and laser sys­tems a tru­ly amaz­ing site to see.

Greyfri­ars is an exquis­ite, Miche­lin rec­om­mend­ed, lux­u­ry hotel with superb restau­rant and lounge bars, opened in 2015. Beau­ti­ful­ly appoint­ed with the customer’s com­fort and con­ve­nience in mind, GreyFri­ars offers 5* ser­vice, com­fort­able lounges, cosy Club rooms, larg­er Clas­sic rooms and spa­cious lux­u­ry suites. It is a des­ti­na­tion in its own right, the only place to stay when vis­it­ing Colch­ester, Con­sta­ble Coun­try and this part of East Anglia.