SHOPS are open again and customers are heading back to our town centres.
Cash registers are ringing and it's a magical sight and sound, after so many months of enforced closure during lockdown.
To celebrate, we're heading back in time with a selection of vintage pictures of Colchester's High Street.
We also have a 1960s photo of one of the town's popular but long-gone stores in Long Wyre Street, at the junction of Eld Lane.
Some of these images take us back more than a century - others to the comparatively recent 1980s.
Whatever the year or decade, it's clear this is the beating heart of our town.
With people bustling from one shop to the next, traffic and even trams, it's a hive of activity - just as it remains and, thankfully, just as it is once again right now.
All of these high-definition photos are part of an online catalogue published by Colchester and Ipswich Museums.
The public have been able to access pictures online, including looking at a fascinating Colchester Through Time collection.
It is free to use and no registration is required.
To check the catalogues, head HERE.
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Nostalgia - have you got old pictures to share with our readers?
We'd love to see your old pictures and share them with our readers. Have you got old school photos, pictures with work colleagues or sports pictures of you with team-mates? Or maybe you have pictures of nights out with friends or at a special event. Whatever it may be, we'd love to see your photos and share them online and in our papers.
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