IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Courtauld Road, BRAINTREE, CM7 9BE

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Courtauld Road, CM7 9BE by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Image Listing (26 Images Found)

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War Memorial, Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex, Panel 1
Image Image Image Image Details on each name featured on the panels is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/braintreegreatwarmemorial/
Image: © Trevor Wright Taken: 23 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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War Memorial, Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex
UK National Inventory of War Memorials No.22070 http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.22070 A War Memorial with four panels detailing those lost. Image Image Image Image Details on each name featured on the panels is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/braintreegreatwarmemorial/
Image: © Trevor Wright Taken: 23 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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War Memorial, Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex, Panel 2
Image Image Image Image Details on each name featured on the panels is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/braintreegreatwarmemorial/
Image: © Trevor Wright Taken: 23 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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War Memorial, Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex, Panel 4
Image Image Image Image Details on each name featured on the panels is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/braintreegreatwarmemorial/
Image: © Trevor Wright Taken: 23 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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War Memorial, Public Gardens, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex, Panel 3
Image Image Image Image Details on each name featured on the panels is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/braintreegreatwarmemorial/
Image: © Trevor Wright Taken: 23 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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H.M.S. KITE Memorial, Public Gardens, Braintree, Essex
IWM War Memorials Archive No.55822 http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.55822 War Memorials Online No. 130998 http://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/130998 In Remembrance of The 217 Men of H.M.S. KITE Braintree & Bocking's Adopted Warship Who Lost Their Lives On 21st August 1944 Here are some abstracts from the Braintree District Council Information Sheet "HMS Kite" http://www.trevorwright.com/Memorials/HMS_Kite/hms_kite.pdf Extensive further details can be found on the HMS Kite memorial website here: http://www.hmskite.com/ and on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Kite_(U87) On March 7th 1942, as part of the Admiralty’s ‘Warship Week’ initiative, the people of Braintree officially ‘adopted’ HMS Kite, a Royal Navy sloop that entered active service almost exactly one year later, on 1st March 1943. Kite’s short career was punctuated by several successes, but ended in tragedy in the icy waters of the Arctic. HMS Kite arrived on the military scene at the height of World War Two naval tensions, and on 9th April 1943 she became a founder member of the 2nd Escort Group, tasked with protecting Allied convoys from the perpetual threat of enemy U-Boats and aircraft. Despite being allies in the early stages of the war, it was only a matter of time before Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia turned on one another, and when this happened in June 1941, Churchill quickly made common cause with the Soviets by offering to supply them with war materials. The chosen method of delivering these supplies was by naval convoy to the Russian ports of Archangel and Murmansk; a route which involved navigating the icy waters surrounding Norway. Convoy JW.59 was the first to brave the Arctic trip following the D-Day operations, and HMS Kite was one of the many British vessels tasked with its protection. On 21st August 1944, a German U-boat patrol encountered the convoy off the coast of Greenland, and U-344 unleashed a salvo of pattern-running torpedoes towards the British ships. Kite was struck by two of them, and in the space of some 90 seconds she sank beneath the freezing sea. For the 226 servicemen on board there was little hope; a handful of life-jacketed crewmen were picked from the sea by friendly vessels, but only some nine individuals survived to return to Britain. (Some correspondence in the November 2008 issue of "Navy News" magazine suggested there was a 10th survivor. The founder of the HMS Kite Association has confirmed this suggestion is sadly not correct). On 21st August 2004 - the 60th anniversary of Kite’s sinking - this memorial stone was unveiled in the Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens.
Image: © Trevor Wright Taken: 23 Jul 2009
0.10 miles
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Pond, Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens
In the middle, hardly visible because of its skeletal nature, is a wire representation of what appears to be a monster caterpillar.
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 19 Mar 2013
0.10 miles
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Bocking Place, Courtauld Road, Braintree
Former home of the Courtauld family famous for bringing the textile industry to Braintree in the early 19th century. This Victorian building has recently been developed into apartments.
Image: © Brenda Howard Taken: 26 Sep 2005
0.12 miles
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Thatched shelter, Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 19 Mar 2013
0.13 miles
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St Peter's Church Bocking
This is St Peter's Church Bocking the lane to the right (St Peter in The Fields) leads to Image probably the smallest nature reserve in Essex
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 16 May 2009
0.16 miles
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