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Anchor Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 1HT

This public footpath or alley runs from Alton Park Road (near the entrance to Ford Road) to Coopers Lane. The picture was taken from the opposite pavement on Alton Park Road looking towards the footpath entrance. On the left are houses on Alton Park Road; in the centre the footpath; on the right Ford Road and buildings in the industrial estate along it, with someone's parked car on Alton Park Road on far right. To the southwest of the footpath are allotments.

Photograph taken from the Alton Park Road car park looking east. The side and part of the rear of the building are visible; so is part of the car park belonging to the college, through the gates and beyond the low boundary walls, which was formerly the school playground. The houses visible behind the college to the right are on Castle Road.

A close up of one of the former school's bell-towers. The picture was taken from the other side of St Osyth Road.

This picture was taken from the other side of St Osyth Road, looking south-west in the sunshine.

Built in 1893, this building was St Osyth Road School from 1894 to 1997 and reopened as Tendring Adult Education College in 2002. The school educated children up to the age of 11 until 1952 and was afterwards an infant school, the older children transferring to the newly built Alton Park Junior School. The children and staff moved to the new Oakwood Infants' School off Windsor Avenue in 1997. The lintel above the doorway marked "Entrance" in this photograph originally read "BOYS", the girls' entrance, as you can see in the highest resolutions of the picture, being next to it. [Sources: "St Osyth Road School Clacton-on-Sea 1893 - 1993: A Centenary Celebration" by Elizabeth Hermon, 1993; Evening Gazette, 2002].

Built in 1893, this building was St Osyth Road School from 1894 to 1997 and reopened as Tendring Adult Education College in 2002. The school educated children up to the age of 11 until 1952 and was afterwards an infant school, the older children transferring to the newly built Alton Park Junior School. The children and staff moved to the new Oakwood Infants' School off Windsor Avenue in 1997. [Sources: "St Osyth Road School Clacton-on-Sea 1893 - 1993: A Centenary Celebration" by Elizabeth Hermon, 1993; Evening Gazette, 2002].

Photograph taken from the Lidl car park looking west; the edge of the Lidl building is visible on the left hand edge. Houses on Alton Park Road can be seen on the right. The Salvation Army citadel was behind me.

This photograph shows the school grounds looking towards the gates with houses on Alton Park Road beyond, with two magnificent willows to the left of the path. The two sets of white and red metal grilles just discernible behind the trees are the open gates at the entrance to the school property, one entrance for pedestrians, the other for motor traffic. The footpath just behind the brick-walled shrub beds led from the pedestrian gates to the main school entrance. The path clearly visible running to the left of the photograph led to the demountable classrooms shown in geograph Image The willows are no longer there and the area is significantly changed, with a greater number of car parking spaces (I looked on Google Street View for the purpose of providing context to the photograph). Taken as part of a photography exercise as a ten-year-old pupil; I remember the staff member with whom I worked fondly.