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Peake's House
Colchester, Essex
Peake’s House stands in the Dutch Quarter, north of the High Street, which has retained its old street plan and many of its old houses. Here Flemish weavers settled in the 1570s, driven into exile by religious persecution. Colchester had astutely applied to the Privy Council for permission to receive a colony. Trade revived as a result and Colchester baize became a lucrative export for over a century. Colchester deals in superlatives – the oldest recorded town, the earliest Roman colony, the largest Norman castle, the finest oysters. It offers much else besides, a thriving market town (on some evenings, even a little too lively) with a long and visible history, on the southern edge of East Anglia. The building has been leased to us by the Borough Council, to which it was given in 1946, by Mr W. O. Peake, who owned a factory and much other property nearby. For many years let to the Red Cross, the house was in need of a new use, which we now provide. View our history sheet for this Landmark
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