Brightlingsea Community Centre
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Brightlingsea Community Centre by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Brightlingsea Community Centre
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 18 Apr 2018
The community centre is an undistinguished building dating from 1975 but it does incorporate the Liberty Hall which has a capacity for 250 people. Even so, the rather scruffy sign could do with a spruce up. This was the site of Brightlingsea station at the end of a branch from Wivenhoe. The railway was closed in 1964 and the building demolished in 1969. This amateur film from 1963 captures the atmosphere of the line in its dying days: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-river-ride-1963-online
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Image Location
Latitude
51.809305
Longitude
1.020077