TRAVELLING on the National Express coach from Stansted, one passes the sign for Dunmow: The Flitch Town to reach Colchester: The Hick Town where the coach stops at the end of the High street at Grey Friars.
The passengers are then instructed to go up the High street if needing a taxi or down the narrow Queen Street in search of a bus.
Thus the travellers trundle off on their quest, trailing their wheeled luggage behind them.
It is then that one realises the miserable and ineffective way in which a town, full of history, greets its visitors.
It could be said that those borough councillors who decided to sell off rather than improve the existing bus/coach station, had the interest of the citizens at heart, that they could meander through the town unimpeded by countless tourists, like in Cambridge.
Colchester will indeed become a city but will always remain a hick town.
FF Casale
The Avenue, Colchester
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