Lamp-post base on Marine Parade West
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The photograph on this page of Lamp-post base on Marine Parade West by Duncan Graham as part of the Geograph project.
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Lamp-post base on Marine Parade West
Image: © Duncan Graham Taken: 9 Apr 2005
The photograph shows the ornamental base of a lamp-post standard on the promenade, Marine Parade West. Nelson Road recedes behind the lamp-post in the picture. A red-brick block of flats now occupies the fenced-off space on the corner of Nelson Road visible in the background. Most lamp-posts of this design, which formerly lined Clacton seafront, had their upper sections dismantled in 2014, including this one. (They had not worked for some years and Tendring District Council feared accidents caused by falling corroded metalwork). Members of the United Kingdom Association of Street Lighting Enthusiasts suggest on their website www.ukastle.co.uk that these Clacton seafront lamp-posts were probably late Victorian in date and certainly made by the firm Johnson and Phillips. See Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.783497
Longitude
1.146688