Summary

Pillbox (destroyed)

Full description

A plan of the wartime defences along the seafront at Clacton-on-Sea (see SMR 21178) shows a pillbox, annotated ‘B’, where a breakwater joins Kings Promenade. <1> An aerial photograph taken in July 1941 shows something here, but not identifiable, and aerial photographs taken a year after the war in July 1946 show that it had been demolished by that date. <2. <3>

<1> CRE, Colchester - WDLA, N. Essex, 1944, Dwg. No. 1908, July 1944 (Map). SEX67942.

<2> unknown, 1941, S346-47, July 1941 (AP). SEX67879.

<3> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1673-3044, July 1946 (AP). SEX67881.

Monument Types

• PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Events

• WWII Defences of Clacton - Fred Nash visits December 2006 (Ref: Nash TEN Dec 2006)

Sources and further reading

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