A view of a siege house and bullet holes
John Martin has released a new set of hostel profiles, this one among them. It has many personal connections for me but it was in itself an impressive and large late Georgian red brick house, built about 1780.
But the town had an earlier youth hostel at Middle Mill House… Read the history of Colchester’s youth hostels here.
Image of the youth hostel at East Bay House in 1950 courtesy YHA archive at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
SIMPLY HOSTELS 
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