Halstead 21st Century Group 🍃💚🍃

#Jumbo is such an iconic part of #Colchester that it surely deserves all our support. It wasn't very popular when it first appeared but with time we've learned to love it. It's still on the #HeritageAtRisk Register but things are looking up. It's future still isn't guaranteed!

See this Instagram post by @halstead21stcenturygroup instagram.com/p/ClO0bdlMZvq/…

Just posted a photo @ Silver End Village Hall instagram.com/p/CjLdCSuIY1F/…

Halstead will be well represented at this year's event with Colne Valley Postal Museum, Halstead & District Local History Society and Museum, Halstead 21st Century Group and Adrian Corder-Birch exhibiting.

Well done to the winners of this year’s Save our Shelters poster competition! The posters were judged by Halstead's mayor and the certificates awarded at Gt Bradfords School assembly. 1st place🥇 - Franciszek Radomski, 2nd place 🥈- Chloe Smith 3rd place 🥉- John Haine

Free to a good home! The Public Arts Trust saved this Keith McCarter concrete sculpture from the Ordnance Survey a number of years ago but we cannot find a suitable location for it in MK. It measures 12.4 x6.3m and comes in six pieces. Contact me if interested - please retweet

Join us for a free interactive webinar - "Funding Applications: A Practical Guide" on 20th July, Wednesday at 10:30 am - 12 noon, brought to you by @benefactgroup and @DSC_Charity. Register online: email.ecclesiastical.com/click/ggno-180…

How many miles can we walk, jog or cycle in 30 days during June and July? We have more than 1000 miles pledged so far. Let's get it to 1500! Want to help? Let us know how many miles you can contribute, by text to 07908569548 or by email to jgiffould@aol.com or DM us here.

If you live in #Essex #Suffolk or #Norfolk have you signed the petition against the @nationalgriduk plan for 110 miles of giant #pylons? The deadline is next week. Please RT. @bernardjenkin @willquince @Essex_CC @RosieP4 @Janusvh

Reading the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill. Heavy going and unexciting. Are these new?? Never heard of them before, Neighbourhood Priorities Statements @oneillhomerltd @Farnsworth100 @CarolineDibden @CatrionaRiddel1 @SmartGrowthUK

For the second year running, Year 3 pupils at Gt. Bradford Junior School have created some wonderful Save Our Shelter posters for an outdoor pop-up gallery on Factory Lane East Halstead. All to celebrate the town's rare group of industrial air raid shelters.

See inside a hidden World War 2 air raid shelter in Mortlake. 3D/VR 👉skfb.ly/otUZK With thanks to @habsandheritage. #photogrammetry @subbrit

Imagine walking into Tesco for your weekly shop and finding row after row of nice, tidy, low maintenance shelves but without the food. You and your kids would starve. That's how Bees, Birds, Hedgehogs etc feel when they visit your plastic garden #TimeForTurf #DontBeAnEmptyTescos

@ckolonko Ah but something was cemented!

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ THE LAST ANSWER David Sugden and Paul Bocking were right, it is the Jubilee Fountain. We thank #Halstead Heritage Museum for the sepia photo - taken in the 1930s And thanks to all who viewed and shared posts or took part in the quiz. Happy New Year.

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ - DAY 12 Something for Halstead to spout about. Answer tomorrow morning.

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ Answer to Q. 11 It's the old Savoy - or the Colne Valley Cinema as it was called when it opened in 1916. Thanks to John Potter for the Now & Then image.

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ - DAY 11 What a picture! And any pictures of your own welcomed.… See more

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ Anwer to Day 10. Paul Nunn, Annette Keeble and David Sugden were correct. It's the former #Halstead branch of Barclay's Bank, quite recently given a bit of a tidy-up.

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ - DAY 10 This was part of a branch of sorts. Answer tomorrow morning.