start of Blue Badge guided tours at Roman circus centre tomorrow: 11th June

Tomorrow (11th June), Colchester Blue Badge guide Jonathan Pearsall will start our summer programme of guided tours of the Roman circus centre and site.

*** Tours tomorrow will start at 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm.
The guided tours will cost £2.50 per person, with children under 11 free. The tours take 50 minutes each and you will walk the site of the circus from the circus starting-gates and as far as the Flagstaff Road car-park at the junction with Mersea Road.

*** Please pay at the cafe counter and meet up with your guide at the circus model, inside the Roman circus centre.

*** The Roman circus site, centre and cafe are open tomorrow 11.00am-4.00pm.

The Roman circus centre, site and cafe are wheelchair-/pushchair-accessible.

*** The summer programme of guided tours at the Roman circus centre and site in 2016 will be:
* Saturday 11th June – 12.30 & 13.30 – Jonathan
* Saturday 25th June – 12.30 & 13.30 – Dinah
* Saturday 9th July – 12.30 & 13.30 – Dinah
* Saturday 23rd July – 12.30 & 13.30 – Jonathan
* Saturday 6th August – 12.30 & 13.30 – Dinah
* Saturday 20th August – 12.30 & 13.30 – Jonathan
* Saturday 27th August – 12.30 & 13.30 – Dinah and Jonathan

Jonathan is a Colchester Blue Badge guide and member of the Trust’s Council of Management; he will be sharing the tours with Dinah, who is also a Blue Badge guide. Jonathan and Dinah are both very experienced Colchester guides and they are both very interested in the Roman circus! Jonathan will also be including the Roman circus in one of his guided tours of Roman Colchester, on the 6th August, when the tour will actually finish here at the Roman circus centre – see www.colchestertouristguidesassociation.co.uk/themed-tours/ .

Blue Badge guides here belong to the Colchester Tourist Guides Association: visit their web-site at www.colchestertouristguidesassociation.co.uk/ . If you are interested in becoming a Colchester town guide, there is a 15-week training course to become a qualified Green Badge Guide which starts on the 1st October 2016: details at www.colchestertouristguidesassociation.co.uk/guiding-course-20162017/ .

The Trust is very grateful to Dinah and Jonathan for offering their tours of the Roman circus centre and site. We are really looking forward to them – and we hope that our visitors will really enjoy them!

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