Clacton-on-Sea: St Michael's Convent and Care Home

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 29 Oct 2018

This is a recently constructed building, at 93 Marine Parade West, that replaced a 100 year old structure, that is variously shown on old large scale Ordnance Survey maps as a convent and an orthopaedic hospital. A local newspaper reported in 2009 that "St Michael’s was founded by three Sisters of Mercy, who came to Clacton from London in 1908 to set up a Roman Catholic convalescent home for women and also took some children with infantile paralysis or spinal TB as patients. The whitewashed building dominates Clacton’s east cliff and is one of the few turn-of-the-century buildings remaining in Clacton." Streetview has images of the quite striking old building in May 2009, and the new one in September 2012. The mobile phone mast on the right is evidently newer than September 2012.

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