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Mason Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA, CO16 7AN

This building was originally the Wesleyan Mission Chapel and when it was built it was the only non-agricultural building in the hamlet of Coppen's Green. It was not until the 1950s that the urban residential development of Clacton-on-Sea began to catch up with it. It has recently been refurbished by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and, as can be judged by the number of vehicles in the car park, the Saturday afternoon Bible study sessions are popular. The church's website is here http://clacton.adventistchurch.org.uk/ The road is Rush Green Road.

This picture shows Clacton Seventh-Day Adventist Community Church, on Rush Green Road and opposite the end of Boxted Avenue. The church building was constructed in 1893 (the date is in the roundel above the door to right of picture). On an 1896 map of the Clacton area, the church is shown as a Wesleyan Mission Chapel, with what was then the hamlet of Coppins Green just to the north. The chapel stood by the road leading south to the hamlet of Rush Green, farmland otherwise surrounding the building. The expanding seaside resort of Clacton-on-Sea has since engulfed the farmland and small settlements.

The photograph shows the lake by Lake Walk and Lake Avenue, frozen at a time of heavy snowfall. The picture was taken from the pavement of Coopers Lane looking towards houses on Lake Walk visible in the background. The outline of the lake is marked in blue on Ordnance Survey maps. Mallards were living on and around the lake when the photograph was taken. My father, David Graham, took the picture and was kind enough to permit me to upload it.