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Holland Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 6EL

The Church, on Church Road, was completed in about 1966, replacing an earlier one that originally dated from the 1870s, but which was not large enough and which suffered bomb damage during the Second World War. There is a photograph of the earlier church dated 1891 in the online Francis Frith collection.

This stone is in a small memorial garden in Clacton, on the northern corner where Victoria Road and Albert Gardens intersect. On 30th April 1940, a German Heinkel bomber carrying sea mines crash-landed on the house in Victoria Road belonging to Mr Frederick W Gill (b. 1888), a retired wool merchant, and his wife Dorothy (b. 1894). The house was utterly destroyed and they were both killed. They were the first civilian casualties of World War II on the British mainland. The memorial commemorates both them and the four members of the German air crew. The crash also made fifty houses uninhabitable and 156 people were injured. The Gills' 19-year-old son William survived with head injuries. The memorial was refurbished and a new memorial stone added in April 2017, paid for partly by money remaining from an air disaster fund set up in 1940 following the crash by the Rev H G Redgrave, the chairman of Clacton Urban District Council. [Sources: bbc.co.uk; Chelmsford Chronicle, 3rd May 1940, from the British Newspaper Archive and courtesy of the British Library Board; National Register 1939 entry for the Gills].

This is a small memorial garden in Clacton, on the northern corner where Victoria Road and Albert Gardens intersect. On 30th April 1940, a German Heinkel bomber carrying sea mines crash-landed on the house in Victoria Road belonging to Mr Frederick W Gill (b. 1888), a retired wool merchant, and his wife Dorothy (b. 1894). The house was utterly destroyed and they were both killed. They were the first civilian casualties of World War II on the British mainland. The memorial commemorates both them and the four members of the German air crew. The crash also made fifty houses uninhabitable and 156 people were injured. The Gills' 19-year-old son William survived with head injuries. The memorial was refurbished and a new memorial stone added in April 2017, paid for partly by money remaining from an air disaster fund set up in 1940 following the crash by the Rev H G Redgrave, the chairman of Clacton Urban District Council. [Sources: bbc.co.uk; Chelmsford Chronicle, 3rd May 1940, from the British Newspaper Archive and courtesy of the British Library Board; National Register 1939 entry for the Gills].

The convent, owned by the United Sisters of Mercy, was built in 2012. It replaced the former convent, which stood on the site of the landscaped gardens in front of the present building. The old building was demolished the same year because it was too cramped for the nuns' needs. Photograph taken from the promenade on the opposite side of Marine Parade East. [Source of information: Clacton Gazette, 13 Jan and 19 Jun 2012].

Moot Hall stands along the sea front, east of the pier. It looks like it is 15th century and indeed the timbers are from that period but they were taken from a barn at Hawstead, Suffolk and re-erected in the form of this delightful house.