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St. Vincent Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 1NA

Residential street leading off seafront; photographed from promenade on Marine Parade West. St Vincent Road leads to the junction of Wash Lane, Kings Road and Freeland Road. Named after John Jervis, first Earl of St Vincent (1735 - 1823), First Lord of the Admiralty, who played a role in the defeat of Napoleon. This and neighbouring streets were named with Nelson associations: Nelson Road, Trafalgar Road, Collingwood Road. On Ordnance Survey maps, St Vincent Road is at the western edge of grid square TM 1714 and just edges into TM 1614. [Source of details on Earl of St Vincent: "Nelson: A Personal History" by Christopher Hibbert, 1994].

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 former hotel with the glass awning is now a care home.

Looking along the groyne towards the promenade and beach huts.

Public toilets and beach huts opposite St Vincent Road, photographed from the beach with the sun setting. The toilet roof provides a viewing platform, accessible from the promenade, overlooking the beach, sea and pier. Toilets are marked on Ordnance Survey maps "PC" for public conveniences.

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

On Kings Promenade.

Clacton on Sea Bowling club; the actual bowling green is directly behind this building.

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