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St. Osyth Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 3BT

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.

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].

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].

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

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

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 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.

This picture shows the Salvation Army citadel on the corner of Old Road and St Osyth Road, taken from the opposite side of Old Road. The citadel was built in 1901 as Zion Church, when it was used by the Primitive Methodists. Following bomb damage during the Second World War, it was reconstructed in 1952, when the Salvationists took possession. The bell-towers of the former St Osyth Road Infant School, now Tendring Adult Education College, can be seen in the background to the right of the citadel. Catherine Booth, the wife of General William Booth and co-founder of the Salvation Army, died in Clacton in 1890. [Source for details of the history of the building: "The History of Clacton", by Kenneth Walker, 1966].