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Marine Parade West, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 1LT

Clacton has a great number of seafront shelters, all of which are of different designs. This one is near the seaward end of Trafalgar Road.

This amenity is at the south-west end of the formal seafront gardens, and on the south-east side of Marine Parade West. The first Ordnance Survey large scale map available online that shows such a pond here dates from 1939. This one and all subsequent ones available show a more elaborate feature with rounded ends rather than the simple rectangular shape of the present one. A local council noticeboard nearby describes the amenity, somewhat bizarrely, as "favourable with young and old, residents and non residents"...

Residential street leading off seafront; photographed from promenade on Marine Parade West. Nelson Road leads from Marine Parade West to Freeland Road. This and neighbouring streets (Trafalgar Road, St Vincent Road, Collingwood Road) were named after Nelson, his victory and his associates. Nelson Road is the last street running off the seafront when heading southwest to be entirely within the grid square TM 1714 on Ordnance Survey maps.

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

The photograph shows the upper section of an ornamental lamp-post standard on the promenade, Marine Parade West. 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

Yep, it hailed, then it rained big time, and refuge had to be sought in Image] in a hurry...

Seen from overhead Jaywick. The new housing estate in the foreground has long since been completed. Adjacent to the black V-shaped area by the beach is a Martello Tower and, beyond that, a coastguard lookout point. The shape of the pier is clearly visible from this angle. Beyond is Holland-on-Sea and then the coast curves round towards Frinton-on-Sea.

This Martello Tower is being used as a coastal watch station which was very much part of its original purpose

Seen at Clacton Air Show.

The cool weather didn't stop people going in the sea.