Site of Second World War Road Barrier, St. John’s Square, Great Clacton (EHER 21238)

Site of Second World War Road Barrier, now destroyed.

WWII Defence of Clacton survey Contemporary records state, ‘Road Barrier (concrete blocks and sockets). St John’s Square. Map ref. 623346’. (Mil. Ed.) <1> This barrier was one of three around this junction at Great Clacton, recorded in War Time Contraventions 1968 and shown on a wartime plan drawn up by Clacton Urban District Council. <2> A low level aerial photograph taken in July 1948 shows the exact position of this barrier from the clear resurfacing patch in the road made after the anti-tank sockets had been removed. It ran across St. John’s Road immediately at its exit from St John’s Square, between the house, now a restaurant, on the corner of the sharp bend and a row of cottages on the north side, rebuilt since the war as shops. <3> <4>