We have dug through the archives to find these pictures from the former Sir Charles Lucas Art College, in Greenstead.
The school opened in 1968 and closed in 2010 to reopen as Colchester Academy.
It was the biggest purpose-built comprehensive school in the town and was criticised by some for looking like a factory.
With 90 teachers, 35 administration staff and a capacity for 1,200 pupils, the large school building dominated the skyline on the emerging Greenstead estate, where many of the flats and houses there today had not yet been built.
When the Sir Charles Lucas School first opened, it had its own sixth form college and had 408 pupils. Before its transformation into an academy, it had more than 900 pupils.
It was given a specialist arts college status in 1990 and became Sir Charles Lucas Arts College.
The school was originally formed from the merger of Eastward School and Sir Charles Lucas School.
Do you have any old pictures you would like to share with us? Email gazette.newsdesk@newsquest.co.uk
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