Site of Second World War Road Barrier, Cloes Lane, Clacton-on-Sea (EHER 21252)

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Site of Second World War Road Barrier, now destroyed.

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Grid reference	TM 1606 1566 (point)

Type and Period

ROAD BARRIER (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Description

WWII Defence of Clacton survey A plan compiled by Clacton Urban District Council, headed ‘Air Raid Precautions’ shows the inland road barriers (not those along the sea front) and their map references. The plan is undated but is clearly wartime. One of the barriers cuts Cloes Lane immediately north of its junction with Douglas Road. The map reference alongside is given as 607338. (Mil. Ed.) <1> Aerial photograph, 1946 This barrier can be faintly seen as a series of white lines across Cloes Lane on an aerial photograph taken in July 1946. <2> The site was visited by Fred Nash, 2007 Both sides of the road have been redeveloped since 1946 and the scene is now very different. Nothing of the road barrier now survives. <3>

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<1> SEX67906 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1673-3045. July 1946.
<2> SEX67936 Map: Aiston, W.. unknown. Clacton-on-Sea Air Raid Precautions, Plan No. 1703.
<3> SEX70635 DESC TEXT: Clacton VCH Group. 2008. Survey of World War Defences of Clacton.

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