A book entitled,
'The Inns, Taverns and Pubs of Colchester'
was first published in 1995.
It was revised and reprinted several times, with the final edition, 'The French Edition', being produced in 2025.
However,
although the 2015 edition is now out of print, here you can see the contents of that Waterloo Edition of 2015, in electronic format.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Pubs across the country have undergone a huge change in the way they operate, much associated with social behaviour of their customers, but also the taxation levels imposed on them by successive governments.
This book just scratches the surface of Colchester's pub heritage; there is so much that has been left out with regards to the stories told by the 'good old boys', through the years, as well as a lack of page space for the many old photographs that have been handed down over decades.
We have a large database of additional material that has not been included in the book and that will, one day, be placed with the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford. Some of this data can be seen here, arranged in alphabetical order by pub. Click below on the first letter of the pub that you are interested in, and then select the actual pub link from the table that follows.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Some years ago, we acquired a box of original deeds that related to the Daniels brewing concern in Colchester. The link below will take you to details of the deeds that were in that box and which was donated to the Essex Record Office in 2024, for the benefit of future researchers.
The following list shows a 30 year span of the pubs that had closed or had been renamed, in Colchester, up until August 2025, together with the 44 that were still in business.
