These unearthed pictures from the Gazette archive show what the city looked like in the 1960s and 1970s.
It was a time when the town, as it was then, looked very different to how it is now.
Traffic still went through the town centre, the market was uncovered and cinemas were the big entertainment.
Over the two decades Colchester saw huge change as new ways of living came to the forefront.
So scroll through some of our favourite images of what it was like to live in Colchester in the sixties and seventies.
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Have you got any pictures or memories from this time? Email us at gazette.newsdesk@newsquest.co.uk.
A cyclist in Abberton pictured in 1969
The Kingways Arcade
Colne Bank pool pictured back in 1979
Traffic woes on at the Ipswich Road roundabout back in 1979
Traffic woes on at the Ipswich Road roundabout back in 1979
The Kingway Arcade in 1969
The Kingways Arcade in 1969
Lexden Road pictured in the 70s
A car drives in Lexden
Lexden Road pictured back in 1971
Long Wyre Street pictured in 1978
Children cross the road in Mile End back in 1969
Children cross the road in Mile End back in 1969
Museum Street as it appeared in 1970
Scheregate steps pictured in 1979
Kingsway Arcade in the 1960s
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