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Marine Parade East, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO15 6JN

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.

The picture shows Ambleside public toilets on the lower promenade, which are approximately opposite, on the cliff-top, St Albans Road and Ambleside Court. A stretch of the beach can also be seen. The toilets are open until 31st October each year.

As part of Clacton and Holland-on-Sea Coast Protection Scheme, 'armour rock' from Norway is delivered to construct the outer layer of the rock groynes. This photo was taken with back to Marine Parade East, near the St Albans Road and Russell Road junctions.

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.

Clacton has a great number of seafront shelters, all of which are of different designs. This one is at the seaward end of St Paul's Road. The pavement along Marine Parade East here forms part of National Cycle Network Route 51.

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].

This is a recently constructed building, at 93 Marine Parade West, that replaced a 100 year old structure, that is variously shown on old large scale Ordnance Survey maps as a convent and an orthopaedic hospital. A local newspaper reported in 2009 that "St Michael’s was founded by three Sisters of Mercy, who came to Clacton from London in 1908 to set up a Roman Catholic convalescent home for women and also took some children with infantile paralysis or spinal TB as patients. The whitewashed building dominates Clacton’s east cliff and is one of the few turn-of-the-century buildings remaining in Clacton." Streetview has images of the quite striking old building in May 2009, and the new one in September 2012. The mobile phone mast on the right is evidently newer than September 2012.

As part of the Clacton and Holland-on-Sea Coast Protection Scheme, new beach material, a sand-shingle mix, is pumped ashore to raise the beach level for greater coastal protection. Walls' kiosk roof (now the Paddle Bay diner) is visible. the picture was taken with back to Vista Road.