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 ‘H’, where a breakwater joins the promenade. <1>

Although aerial photographs from July 1941 show something at this point they are not clear enough to be more specific. <2>

An OS map dated 1974 shows the end of the breakwater, where it joins the promenade, as a half-hexagonal, probably where the pillbox once stood. The seawall here has now been configured and nothing of this base remains to be seen. <3>

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

<2> RAF, 1941, S346-50, July 1941 (AP). SEX67891.

<3> Ordnance Survey, unknown, 1:1250 OS Post War National Grid, TM 1815 SW, 1974 (Map). SEX64245.

Monument Types

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

Associated Events

• WWII Defences of Clacton - Fred Nash visits January 2007 (Ref: Nash TEN Jan 2007)

Sources and further reading

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