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8:14am on Tuesday, 9th September, 2025:
Anecdote
When I was a fresh undergraduate, I went for an explore of Colchester.
In the department store, Williams & Griffin, I saw a sign indicating that toys were downstairs. Naturally, I went for a look. There, among toys, games and child-related clothing, I saw a stuffed-toy monkey rotating from a bar in the ceiling.
Williams & Griffin was bought out by Fenwick's, who initially removed the monkey. The public outcry was such that they soon replaced it.
It's still there.
It's probably been refurbished, but that's basically a 50-year-old plushie monkey still performing its trick for the benefit of Colcestrian children.
Well, Colcestrian children whose parents can afford to shop in Fenwick's, anyway.
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