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This unique Colchester estate brought classes together in Victorian Britain NEW Town, named in contrast to the “old town” centred primarily inside and near the Roman Wall, is the only part of Colchester designed to accommodate “upper, middle and lower or working classes” - a dominant feature of the structure of class segregated life in Victorian Britain. This comprises around 470 houses built from the 1880s on what had been fields behind older dwellings in Magdalen Street and Military Road (as far as Camp Church) and facing Wimpole Road. Subsequent housing developments in Colchester throughout the 20th century and into the 21st do not have such a deliberate social mix and built-form characteristics in the variable size and design of the dwellings in the same community.
Raid - Colchester police execute a warrant in New Town and (inset) councillor Lee Scordis AN urgent appeal for neighbours to report drug activity in their area has been issued after police rammed their way into a flat in a morning raid. Acting on intelligence received by Colchester’s Community Policing Team, a group of around half a dozen officers were filmed forcing their way into a property off Military Road, New Town, on Monday. A spokesman for the team said the officers were executing a warrant in response to reports of drug activity. He said: “A quantity of suspected amphetamine and other controlled substances were seized.