| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), promenade, opp. Lancaster Gdns East, Clacton-on-Sea |
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| SMR Number: | 21200 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 186 151 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM11NE |
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| Parish: | CLACTON-ON-SEA, TENDRING, ESSEX |
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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 ‘I’, 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 1971 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 reconfigured 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 SE, 1971 (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
| <1> | Map: CRE, Colchester - WDLA, N. Essex. 1944. Dwg. No. 1908. July 1944. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1941. S346-50. July 1941. |
| <3> | Map: Ordnance Survey. unknown. 1:1250 OS Post War National Grid. TM 1815 SE, 1971. |
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