Clacton-on-Sea is a comparatively new town, founded as recently as 1871. It takes its name from the ancient and peaceful village of Great Clacton, having been built on an area known as Clacton Beach, then occupied only by three Martello towers and a scattering of coastguard cottages. This book deals with its first beginnings to its height as one the country’s leading seaside resorts in the 1920s and ’30s, with a superb selection of old pictures, capturing its streets, beach, its famous pier, paddle steamers and the Great Eastern Railway.
- ISBN10 0850338719
- ISBN13 9780850338713
- Publish Date 1 September 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The History Press Ltd
- Imprint Phillimore & Co Ltd
- Edition UK ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English
- URL http://thehistorypress.co.uk/products/Clacton-on-Sea-A-Pictorial-History.aspx