Second World War anti tank cubes, Westmarsh, Brightlingsea (EHER 10741)

Line of 450 concrete blocks which protected shore at Westmarsh Point. Only one of them survives.

Assessment and site visit by F. Nash, 1996 An aerial photograph taken in 1941 shows a long line, over half a mile in length, of around 450 concrete blocks lining the sea shore at Westmarsh Point. They stretch from just west of Bateman's Tower to a jetty 50 yards east of Oyster Tank Road. <1> An aerial photograph taken in 1945 shows some of them, around 50, to have been demolished by that date. <2> Eleven of these blocks still survive at the time of the visit in October 1996 at the extreme west end of the line although most of them have been undermined and have fallen over. Two photos of site. <3> Site visited by F. Nash in October 2009: The site was re-visited in October 2009, as the frontage here has been considerably re-profiled in the past 13 years. Now, just one block still survives. As it had been in 1996, this still stands, upright on top of the concrete walling at TM 0761 1629. Three photos taken of site. <4>