Can you spot yourself in our school pictures from the 80s and 90s? TODAY’S trip down memory lane gives us a chance to revisit the former Sir Charles Lucas Art College, in Greenstead. The school opened in 1968 and closed in 2010, reopening as Colchester Academy. It was the biggest purpose-built comprehensive school in the town and 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. At that time, many of the flats and houses there today had not yet been built.
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