03/06/2026
People often ask why the pub’s sign is a bomb, but did you know the only boozer in Colchester during WW2 to be blown up by a German bomber was the New Inn?
Took a direct hit in a raid that killed 8 people in 1942. The pub re-opened in 1945.
How ironic it survived the n***s but is now under more threat of destruction from our own government’s economic policies 80 years later.
Part of Colchester’s rich historical past - use it or lose it.