Site of Second World War Anti-Tank Pimples/Road Barrier, St Albans Road, Clacton-on-Sea (EHER 21228)
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Summary
Site of Second World War Anti-Tank Pimples/Road Barrier, now destroyed.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TM 1827 1505 (47m by 21m) |
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Type and Period
Description
WWIII Defence of Clacton survey
Contemporary records state, “Concrete pimples and dannert wire. Hadleigh Hotel, Marine Parade, Tennis Court” and “Concrete pimples and dannert wire, Hadleigh Hotel, St. Albans Road and Marine Parade, Garden.” <1>
An aerial photograph taken by the RAF in July 1941 shows a five-row band of anti-tank pimples stretching from the E side of the Oulton Hall Hotel, across the tennis courts which were on the west corner of St. Alban’s Road (but owned by Hadleigh Hotel), across St. Albans Road to the W side of Hadleigh Hotel – approximately 100 pimples in all. <2>
The site was visited by Fred Nash in 2007.
In 2007, Oulton Hall Hotel still survives, but as an apartment block, the tennis courts have been built over by Hadleigh Court apartments and the Hadleigh Hotel still survives but again as an apartment block. <3>