ALMOST four decades on the striking images of the punk movement still remains.
These images from our archives reveal it was going strong in Colchester in the late 1970s into the mid 1980s.
Punk began to arrive in the town from larger cities in the late 1970s when teens started putting together their own bands and then venues from Essex University to the Clarence Pub and Embassy Suite hosted gigs.
Special Duties, pictured here, was a band formed by Alderman Blaxill pupils at the time while there were a number of places including the former Trinity Church in the town centre and the Colne Lodge that were favourite haunts.
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