1. Perfection-on-Sea; with Cheap Cost of Living and Miles of Beaches, Southend Is Named the Top Place to Retire
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 29, 2006
...is between pounds sterling200 and pounds sterling500 below the national average. The other places in the top ten are Clacton-on-Sea, Stirling, Leamington Spa, Skegness, Weymouth and Southport. Miss McConnell added that anyone-who has a good NHS dentist...
2. Heartless-on-Sea; Vicious Muggers Smashed a Brick in This 76-Year-Old's Face and Broke Both His Wrists on a Busy Seafront. Yet, Not a Single Passer-By Stepped in to Rescue Him
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 17, 2006
...drove past her without stopping to help. Mr Gull, a retired electrician from Rainham, Essex, had been on a day trip to Clacton-on-Sea with his local working mens club. During the day, he separated from the others to visit a friend at the towns bowling...
3. From Clacton to Class War
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 14, 2005
Subjects: Television programs--Television program reviews
...than half a mile from the sea, and with marginally more...the sun. In other words, Clacton. Or, at a pinch, Bognor...flight, the rest stayed on the uninspiring beach...of the Williams family, on the other hand, had long...wore copious tasting notes on his sleeve from which he...
4. D-DAY: 60 YEARS ON: INTO HELL; Ships Were Burning, Shells Screaming Overhead, Our Mates Were Being Blown to Bits. the Sea Had Turned to Blood Red
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 6, 2004
...Utah. Omaha was a terrible place...the sea was red with blood and Americans lay dead...45 RM Commando DAYLIGHT, and we moved on deck to see an incredible sight. Some craft...looked up a young Eddie Treacher, 81, of Clacton, Essex, 45 RM Commando OUR boat got hit...
5. Resort to Living at the Seaside
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 12, 2006
...SIMON MIDGLEY Clacton-on-Sea, one of the...breezes, wide sea vistas and...Constable country, Clacton - population...largest town on the Tendring...reliable service. Clacton is a great...fresh air, the sea, the A12, the...Constable country on your doorstep...
1. Jaywick Sands Is Stepney-by-the-Sea, a Thriving Cockney Enclave on the Essex Coast
Magazine article by Paul Barker; New Statesman, Vol. 127, August 28, 1998
Subjects: United Kingdom--Housing, Waterfront development--United Kingdom
...Stepney-by-the-sea, a thriving Cockney enclave on the Essex coast...stall outside Clacton pier. (His...sand is nailed on to the beach...groynes. The sea is grey-blue...Butlin had his Clacton holiday camp...away from the sea, where they...themselves "West Clacton"), its middling...me as I go on into Brooklands...
2. God Has Been Taking Care of Me on a Daily Basis
Magazine article by Julian Clary; New Statesman, Vol. 135, July 31, 2006
Subjects: God--Personal narratives
...grandfather, Jack Clary, died in 1952, long before I was conceived over the breakfast bar of a holiday bungalow in Clacton-on-Sea. It transpires that my grandmother gave his old frock coat to the boy who lived next door. The boy grew up, kept the...
3. The Abbey in Exile
Magazine article by Charlotte Ellis; The Architectural Review, Vol. 202, August 1997
Subjects: Abbeys--Design and construction, Architects--Works, Bellot, Paul--Works, England--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc.
...consecrated a few days later. The previous month, he had insisted Chidgey should return from his annual holiday at Clacton-on-Sea 12 days early, to make a start on the Final Account - a laborious task due to the very large number of items requiring...
4. Underground Attacks: Roland Quinault Finds Alarming Parallels for the Recent London Bomb Attacks in the 1880s
Magazine article by Roland Quinault; History Today, Vol. 55, September 2005
Subjects: Bombings--Comparative analysis, Bombings--History, Bombings--United Kingdom, Irish Americans--Political activity, Irish Republican Army--Political activity, London Terrorist Bombings, 2005--Comparative analysis
...were also a few labourers and female servants, along with two schoolboys who had come up to London for the day, from Clacton-on-Sea. The social segregation of Victorian society along class lines was also evident seven months later, when an explosion...
5. The Happy Holiday We Outgrew: As Butlins Celebrates Its 70th Birthday, William Cook Pays Tribute to a Much-Maligned British Institution
Magazine article by William Cook; New Statesman, Vol. 135, July 17, 2006
Subjects: Butlins Skyline Ltd.--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Butlins Skyline Ltd.--Services, Hospitality industry--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Hospitality industry--Services
...pool. Lads and dads pot balls on full-sized tables in the snooker...boomed. He opened a second camp at Clacton and built a third at Filey, and...fascination of a holiday across the sea," read the brochure, "with none...That afternoon, the Redcoats put on a pantomime (Snow White and the...
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