Site of Second World War Anti-Tank Pimples/Road Barrier, Connaught Gardens East, Clacton-on-Sea (EHER 21236)

Site of Second World War Anti-Tank Pimples/Road Barrier, now destroyed.

WWII Defence of Clacton survey Contemporary records state, “Concrete pimples, dannert wire and trenches, Connaught Gardens, Strip across gardens.” <1> An aerial photographs taken at low level by the RAF in July 1941 shows this as a large anti-tank pimple barrier stretching from the east side of Connaught Gardens West, across the gardens area to Connaught Gardens East and across this to finally abut up against Passmore Edwards House. Five rows deep, there were around 160 pimples. <2> It is thought, from a wartime plan, wartime records and a 1941 aerial photograph, that this barrier was the easternmost of those which sealed off the town along the seafront. <3> <4>