Site of Second World War Road Barrier, Valley Road, Clacton-on-Sea (EHER 21246)

Site of Second World War Road Barrier, now destroyed.

Contemporary records state, ‘Concrete pimples. Valley Farm, Holland Main Road, Garden’ and ‘Road Barrier. Valley Corner. Map ref. 634344’. (Mil. Ed.) <1> Aerial photograph, 1946 This road barrier can be seen on a 1946 aerial photograph as four rows of anti-tank sockets crossing Valley Road from Valley Farm on the N side to the SW corner of the junction with Holland Road. On the north side, pimples clearly connected the sockets, across the front garden, to the farmhouse itself. On the south side there appears to have been quarrying and this would have acted as the southern anchorage point. <2> The site was visited in Fred Nash in 2007 In June 2007, Valley Farm no longer exists and the SW corner of the junction is now housing. Nothing remains of the road barrier. <3>