IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Skelmersdale Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 6EN

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].

This photograph shows the entrance to the Clacton Campus of Colchester Institute on Church Road, Clacton. The Clacton Campus opened in 1976 at the formation of Colchester Institute, when North East Essex Technical College merged with St Osyth Training College.

A residential street, looking north-west. Photograph taken from junction with High Street. Chapman Road runs from the High Street to Skelmersdale Road; the Skelmersdale Road end of Chapman Road is opposite Clacton railway station. A copy of an 1896 Ordnance Survey map of Clacton shows Chapman Road under construction at that date.