Geoffrey Haward Martin

“ On Wednesday the old Grammar School-house and premises, in Culver Street, with a frontage of 79 feet, were offered to public competition by Messrs. Cook, at the Cups Hotel, when, after a spirited bidding by the company present, the property (freehold) was knocked down to J. S. Barnes, Esq., at £540, for Mr. William Sherman, coach builder of East Street, who, we understand, intends converting the premises into a carriage manufactory. ”

“ All that capital messuage or tenement, then and for many years past called Weston's, situate in the parish of All Saints, in Colchester, in Culver Street, and abutting on that street towards the north, on certain messuages or tenements, and gardens belonging to the Blue School Charity towards the east, and on a messuage, called the Cross Keys, towards the west, as the said capital messuage had, ever since the foundation of the said Free Grammar-School, been used as the school-house of the said school, and the residence of the master thereof. ”

“ Like the Westons school-house of 1584 these various properties have been acquired for use and not as sources of income; and none of them has been in the possession of the School for longer than a century. In both these respects the modern properties differ essentially from the ancient endowments derived from the Elianore Chantry. ”