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These snaps are from a photo album belonging once to Gwendoline Dean and John Allen who married in 1945 and had a daughter Margaret in 1947. I bought the album at a car boot sale otherwise things that don't sell there are usually destined for the tip.
Pencilled in like secret writing is the location of Clacton on Sea. You could only see this when holding the album at an angle against the light !
Taken on the pier at Clacton-on-Sea..
Heading off to stay and explore Clackton on Sea, then next day going via Mersea Island for lunch and a beach walk then doubled back across the Thames on Queensferry Bridge and went down to stay in Whitstable and have a wander round there. We also went to see the famous Reculver Towers and Roman Fort.
The next day we visited Canterbury Cathedral (amazing place!).
After Canterbury it was a long drive home via and through (no time on this trip to stay) some of the famous little towns in the Cotswolds like Burford, Bourton on the Water, Upper Slaughter, Stow on the Wold and Morton in Marsh amogst others!! Then it was then home for a very late arrival!
Alesha Jamaican Model in String Dress & White Bra On Location Photoshoot Clacton Pier Clacton-on-Sea Essex Seaside Town and Resort on an overcast day
St Paul, Clacton on Sea, Essex
This is one of the most important post-war Anglican churches in East Anglia. It was built in 1965 to the design of Ray Gould, and is full of 1960s confidence. It is entirely Anglican - altar rails at the holy end, the pulpit and lectern, the lady chapel - it really couldn't be anything else. The exterior is dramatic with an unsymmetrical rising bell tower. To the west of the church is an ecclesiastical village - the hall, offices, the rectory, etc. It is hard to imagine that a CofE church of this scale and confidence will be built in England again, since they all seem to be ecumenical sheds these days. The east end is focused on a vast dalle de verre window by Rosemary Rutherford (Hinderclay, Boxford, Bradfield St Lawrence, etc). The other windows in the church are resettings of earlier windows by her from the preceding Victorian church. The church gets a full page in the colour plates section of the revised Pevsner, with as many photos as Thaxted church gets. The couple on duty were delightful, and insisted on showing me around. The church's presence is enhanced by its somewhat suburban setting, albeit only a few hundred yards from Clacton's main drag.
346 - Rescanned 2020 this was HRT Great Eastern Pullman 1ZZ Liverpool - Liverpool St via Southend Victoria, Clacton on Sea and Bishops Stortford formed of the Manchester Pullman Set
In a sunny Clacton-on Sea Bus Station we find Bristol LS 1246 1861F , laying over between trips .
When I first noticed a Bristol LS , I was in the ''old '' Bus park in Colchester , must have been in the late 1950s . I thought how much better they looked than what London Transport used on my local single deck route ( RFs on the 254) .
I am still of that opinion , the clean lines and not too much fussy detail of the LS bus body , was the best body produced on an early Underfloor engined bus.
New to Clacton-on-Sea based Crusader Holidays in March 2006, this Setra 416GT-HD type EU06 JBV is now in the fleet of Swallow Coaches of Rainham. It is seen in the Cadogan Road Coach Park at Cromer possibly on the last day of a 4 day Great Yarmouth & The Norfolk Broads holiday being operated on behalf of David Urquhart Travel and based at the St George Hotel at Great Yarmouth.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Clacton-on-Sea using a 2d. stamp on Wednesday the 23rd. June 1954 to:
Miss Woolwich,
28 Seymour Place,
London W1.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"The weather is still
lovely. I am very lucky
after the dreadful weather
we have had.
The trip to Margate
yesterday was ideal - we
left Clacton at 10 o/c and
arrived Margate at 1.30.
I spent 3 hours there
before returning, got
back 8.30, you would
have loved it.
Hope to see you Sunday
about 2 o/c.
Hope you are well.
Love Amy."
Clacton-on-Sea
Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town in the Tendring peninsula in Essex, England, and was founded as an urban district in the year 1871. It is a seaside resort that saw a peak of tourists in the summer months between the 1950's and the 1970's.
The town's economy continues to rely significantly on entertainment and day-trip facilities, and it is strong in the service sector, with a large retired population.
In 1936, Billy Butlin bought and refurbished the West Clacton Estate, an amusement park to the west of the town. He opened a new amusement park on the site in 1937, and then, a year later on 11 June 1938, opened the second of his holiday camps.
This location remained open until 1983 when, due to changing holiday tastes, Butlins decided to close the facility. It was then purchased by former managers of the camp who reopened it as a short-lived theme park, called Atlas Park. The land was then sold and redeveloped with housing.
The Seizing of the Oil Tanker Tuapse
So what else happened on the day that Amy posted the card?
Well, on the 23rd. June 1954 the Tuapse was captured. Two days earlier, on the 21st. June 1954, the civilian tanker Tuapse, with 49 crew members, which was loaded with 11,702 tons of kerosene to be delivered Shanghai and Vladivostok, arrived in Hong Kong to resupply.
On the 23rd. June it passed through the international seaway of Balintang Channel in Bashi Straits, eastbound toward the west Pacific Ocean. It was intercepted near the Philippines by a Republic of China taskforce which had permission from President Chiang Kai-shek to sink the tanker if crews offered resistance.
Three rounds of 127 mm naval gun shots were fired near the bow to force the oil tanker to stop, then an assault team led by Captain Chiu Zhong-ming (邱仲明上校) with over 100 seamen boarded the ship. Admiral Ma then moved to the Tuapse and took command.
Three sailors trying to save the Soviet flag that had been ripped off by soldiers were struck down with rifle butts, and two engineers operating the mechanical self-destruction sequence were beaten badly by seamen breaking into the engine room.
Tuapse's final distress signal before the radio station was smashed and silenced was transmitted through Vladivostok to Moscow and Odessa.
The ship with its oil content was towed to the Port of Kaohsiung for intelligence examination. Samples of the oil were collected for chemical analysis in Okinawa, and the oil was pumped out to military storage.
The Tuapse's crew, including the only female on board, bartender Olga Popov, were divided into 3 groups roughly by age to be transported to different locations for interrogation with no cross between each other being allowed. Captain Vitaly A. Kalinin was also not allowed to visit the groups.
ROC military later declared that such isolation measures were due to the captain ordering the crew to make a hunger strike protest.
The ROC Government admitted to the operation on the 25th. June. The Black Sea Shipping Company continued to distribute the victims' wages to their families throughout the following years.
Chiang Ching-kuo, the Director of China's Political Warfare Bureau, attempted to induce the sailors to demand political asylum in order to score an epic propaganda victory during the Cold War.
After the Tuapse capture, shipping insurance premiums for crossing the South China Sea increased by up to 5%, and a number of international liners changed their route after docking at Singapore.
The PLA Air Force moved to Hainan Island for the first time in history to secure an alternative transport route through Yulin and Huangpu, but accidentally shot down a Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 airliner with 10 deaths on the 23rd. July.
On the 8th. September General Peng Meng (AKA the "Kaohsiung Butcher" due to his brutality against civilians during the Feb. 28th. Massacre and the White Terror era) declared:
"The Third World War has begun - the tanker
and its cargo have been confiscated, and the
crew are officially treated as prisoners of war."
The crew were beaten, tortured and received only starving rations, causing loss of hearing and vision, and damage to teeth and fingers. Sailor L. Anfilov lost all his teeth; N. Voronov tried to escape, but was seized and placed in a psychiatric facility and subjected to mock executions; engineer Ivan Pavlenko slashed his own throat with a blade to commit suicide, but did not die.
20 young Ukrainian, Russian and Moldovan sailors under pressure signed an application demanding political asylum in the United States.
David Whitfield
Also on the 23rd. June 1954, the Number One chart hit record in the UK was 'Cara Mia' by David Whitfield and the Mantovani Orchestra.
David Whitfield (2nd. February 1925 – 15th. January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist from Hull. He became the first British artist to have a UK No. 1 single in the UK and in the United States with Cara Mia.
David died from a brain haemorrhage in Sydney, Australia, while on tour at the age of 54.
1N12 0817 London Liverpool Street to Clacton-on-Sea service seen departing Colchester station seen at 0919
Its a Sunny day and the family has gone from Colchester to Clacton-on-Sea for the day .
They are on the beach or the pier , guess where I am :- you are correct the Bus Station .
No point wasting time on the beach , or money on the pier. There are Buses to be seen and Photographed !!
FLF 2864 was working the Route 107 over to Jaywick Sands from Clacton.
Note ,rear wheel discs , no adverts , shiny paintwork and even the cream band had black lining out !
Best viewed in large
View as a Slide Show Please
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Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town in the Tendring peninsula and district in Essex, eastern England, and was founded as an urban district in 1871. It is a seaside resort that saw a peak of tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and 1970s.
The town's economy continues to rely significantly on entertainment and day-trip facilities and it is strong in the service sector, with a large retired population. The north-west part of the town has two business/industrial parks. In the wider district, agriculture and occupations connected to the Port of Harwich provide further employment.
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton-on-Sea
347 - Rescanned 2020 this was HRT Great Eastern Pullman 1ZXX 0855 Liverpool St - Liverpool St via Southend Victoria, Clacton on Sea and Bishops Stortford formed of the Manchester Pullman Set
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Osyth, Church Road, Clacton-On-Sea
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1271909
Summary
Roman Catholic Church by F.W. Tasker built 1902-3.
Reasons for Designation
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, designed by F.W. Tasker and constructed in 1902-3, Church Road, Clacton-on-Sea, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: *Architectural interest: as an ambitious early-C20 neo-Norman design with accomplished treatment of stonework and detailing to the exterior; * Interior: the Church has a finely detailed and executed vaulted and arcaded interior which retains many fixtures and fittings of interest; *Group Value: the Church has proximity with the lych gate at the entrance to the church grounds.
History
Clacton grew as a seaside resort from the mid-C19. Mass was said for local Catholics and visitors in a variety of improvised locations, including a Martello Tower and a small room over a fruit shop in Station Road. A mission was not fully established until 1894, when Mrs Pauline de Bary and Mrs Agnes St John acquired a plot of land and a house at the corner of Church Road and Holland Road for £2400.
Mrs de Bary and Mrs St John were the guardians of a statue of Our Lady of Light, the centrepiece of a shrine which had been established at Sclerder, Cornwall in 1834 by members of the Trelawny family. It took its name from the shrine to Our Lady of Light (‘Intron VariaarSklerder’) in Brittany. ‘Sclerder’ is also the Cornish word for light, and the estate at Trelawne was so renamed. The shrine survived the Trelawny family, which died out in the 1860s, being maintained by a succession of secular and religious clergy until taken over by Pauline de Bary, widow of Richard de Bary of Weston Hall, Worcs. Mrs de Bary restored the shrine and installed a wooden statue of Our Lady and the shrine became a pilgrimage centre. However, what Wilson describes as ‘various difficulties’ arose, and a decision was taken by Mrs de Bary and Mrs St John to move the shrine to another location. They approached Cardinal Vaughan, who suggested Clacton-on-Sea, where there was a need for a mission.
In 1895 the Oblates of St Charles at Bayswater were invited to take over the running of the shrine, and Cardinal Vaughan of Westminster undertook to erect the Confraternity of Our Lady of Light there. Leonard Stokes prepared designs for a large church in his personal version of free Gothic, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896. This scheme was not pursued and instead in 1901 the Chapter of the Oblates approved the building of a small chapel, costing about £2000. After visiting Clacton however, Canon Wyndham, Father Superior of the Oblates, concluded that ‘the building of a small church or a cheap one does not seem practical. For a place as isolated as Clacton, the building itself should be expressive of the Holy Catholic Faith’ (quoted in Wilson et al,10). Canon Wyndham himself offered a considerable sum towards the project, and in April 1902 work started on a large church in Norman style, costing about £10,000, the design said to be based on St Bartholomew, Smithfield. The architect was FW Tasker and the builders Messrs S Fancourt Halliday of Stamford, Lincolnshire (from where much of the stone used for the building came). The foundation stone was laid by Canon Wyndham on 4 September 1902. The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, the Saxon abbess of a nearby convent and later Augustinian abbey. The western portion (nave and aisles) was opened on 24 May 1903 and the completed church opened on 15 October 1903. The Oblates of St Charles brought many items from London, including books and vestments, and four bells which were hung in the new tower.
In 1909 the sacristy was added at the east end and a Ketton stone pulpit introduced, the latter the gift of AG Swannell, who also gave the high altar, communion rails and font. In the 1920s carved wooden Stations of the Cross were put up and an oak war memorial lych gate built at the entrance to the churchyard.
Post-Vatican II reordering involved the removal of the high altar and altar rails. In 1998 the sanctuary was reordered by the David Rackham Partnership, with new altar and ambo. The church was consecrated by Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood on 15 October 2004, 101 years to the day after the official opening.
Details
A large Roman Catholic church in Neo-Norman style, built in 1902-3 and designed by F.W. Tasker.
MATERIALS: the walls are faced in Kentish ragstone over a brick core, with Ketton stone dressings. The roofs are plain tiled.
PLAN: the plan is cruciform, consisting of an aisled nave, crossing with tower over, transepts and an apsidal east end with ambulatory. A later sacristy is attached to the east.
EXTERIOR: the nave is of four bays, with round-headed windows, clerestory and corbel band at eaves level. At the west end there are square corner turrets with pyramidal stone caps. Between these is a three-light west window over a round-headed arch with four tiers of colonnettes and oak plank entrance doors with elaborate hinges. The three-stage square crossing tower has wooden shutters to the bell stage and a pyramidal roof with an iron cross at its apex. The gabled transepts has circular windows. The north and south doors have Carnarvon arches. The east end is apsidal, with a narrow ambulatory wrapping around it and athree-bay sacristy with an open porch to the east.
INTERIOR: inside, the arcades and dressings are of Lincolnshire limestone, while the main wall surfaces are plastered and painted. The floors are of woodblock, with marble in the sanctuary. The nave is of five bays with a barrel vault of Canadian redwood. At the west end is a stone organ gallery. Below this in the south west corner is a stone vaulted former baptistery, now adapted to serve as a confessional. The Norman style nave arcade has circular piers with scalloped capitals and stone groin vaulting to the aisles. There is a high groin vaulted ceiling at the crossing, while the transepts like the nave are timber barrel vaulted. The sanctuary has a seven-arched arcade with a groin-vaulted ambulatory, with the later sacristyl eading off to the east. There are two side chapels on the eastern side of the transepts: the shrine to Our Lady of Light on the north side, and the Blessed Sacrament (formerly Sacred Heart) chapel on the south side.
FIXTURES AND FITTINGS: in the sanctuary, neo-Norman fittings include an altar and stone ambo of 1998, and a (relocated) font of 1909, large and square and carried on four stubby columns, with an oak cover with iron strapwork. In the north transept chapel, a statue of Our Lady of Light is set within a neo-Norman aedicule of stone and polished marble, over a neo-Norman altar with open arcading. In the south transept, an opus sectile figure of the Sacred Heart is placed within a neo-Norman arch over a plain Gothic altar. The seating consists of plain oak benches of c1950, apart from two at the back of the nave, which are larger and more elaborate, and date from c1926. In the nave are oak figures of St Anthony and St Joseph, on columns and under canopies, which appear to date from the 1920s.
STAINED GLASS: stained glass includes windows by Jones and Willis in the ambulatory (Nativity, Agony in the Garden, Christ before Pilate, Resurrection, the last signed, c1903) and aisles (Our Lady of Light, signed, and a window to Fr Alfred Swaby OP, both 1925).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 468726
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Academy Architecture, (1894)
Bettley, J, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (2007)
Ward, J, The Leonard Stokes Directory, Architect in a Dressing Gown, (2009)
'The Tablet' in 24th October 1903, (3rd October 1925)
Other
Architectural History practice, Taking Stock: Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood, 2012,
Church Guidebook: Shrine of Our Lady of Light, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex by Rev. C. Wilson et al,
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271909
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Lych Gate, Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, Clacton on Sea, Essex
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1420919
Summary
A lych gate and war memorial commemorating the parish dead of the First World War, sited in a prominent corner position at the entrance to the grounds of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, Clacton-on-Sea.
Reasons for Designation
The lych gate, constructed in 1925 and located at the entrance to the grounds of the Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth on the corner of Church Road and Holland Road, Clacton-on-Sea, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: *Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this parish community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflict of 1914-18; * Architectural interest: as a well-detailed Arts and Crafts gabled design of oak, brick and stone, with good sculptural detail; * Group value: the lych gate forms the entrance to the grounds of the Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, Clacton-on-Sea, listed at Grade II, with which the gate has group value.
History
The lych gate was built at the entrance to the Church of Our Lady of Light and St Osyth in about 1925 to honour the parish dead of the First World War.
The concept of commemorating war dead did not develop to any great extent until towards the end of the C19. However, it was the aftermath of the First World War that was the great age of memorial building, both as a result of the huge impact the loss of three quarters of a million British lives had on communities and the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that memorials provided the main focus for the grief felt at this great loss.
Details
Lych gate of 1925 at the entrance to the Church of our Lady of Light and St Osyth.
MATERIALS: oak framed war memorial on a Lincolnshire limestone plinth, with herringbone brick at the sides (to gate height), oak gates and a gabled tile roof.
EXTERIOR: open gabled design, the woodwork richly carved with quatrefoils (on the gables) and naturalistic foliage (in the pendentives). On the front there are carved figures of St Osyth (left) and St Charles (right) on the main uprights, and above, placed centrally on a king post, a figure of Our Lady of Light with a dove and inscription below (‘humilitas’). Within the lych gate to the left is an oak panel recording six parish war dead, with an inscription over (‘Pro Patria Mortui Sunt 1914-1918’).
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 12 January 2017.
Sources
Books and journals
'' in The Tablet, (20 September 1924)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 January 2017 from www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22710
Other
Architectural History practice, Taking Stock: Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood, 2012,
Church Guidebook: Shrine of Our Lady of Light, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex by Rev. C. Wilson et al,
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1420919
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Our Lady Of Light and St Osyth Catholic Church
1 Church Road, Clacton-on-Sea, CO15 6AG
Our Lady of Light and St Osyth Church was built in 1902. In 1902 work began on the new church, and on October 15th 1903 the church was opened with Solemn High Mass.
For more info see:-
ourladyoflight.co.uk/about-our-parish/
Detail:- Oak war memorial lych gate built at the entrance to the churchyard.
Clacton-on-Sea – Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, Church Road, Clacton, Essex CO15
HERITAGE DETAILS
Architect: F. W. Tasker
Original Date: 1902
Conservation Area: Yes
Listed Grade: II*
A striking neo-Norman design of the early twentieth century by F. W. Tasker, built to house the national shrine of Our Lady of Light. The external massing of the church makes a major contribution to the local conservation area, and the vaulted interior impresses equally. Reordering has left the sanctuary somewhat bare but the church retains many furnishings of interest.
Clacton grew as a seaside resort from the mid-nineteenth century. Mass was said in a variety of improvised locations, including the Martello Tower and in a small room over a fruit shop in Station Road. A mission was not fully established until 1894, when Mrs Pauline de Bary and Mrs Agnes St John acquired a plot of land and a house at the corner of Church Road and Holland Road for £2400.
Mrs de Bary and Mrs St John were the guardians of a statue of Our Lady of Light, the centrepiece of a shrine which had been established at Sclerder, Cornwall in 1834 by members of the Trelawny family. It took its name from the shrine to Our Lady of Light (‘Intron Varia ar Sklerder’) in Brittany. ‘Sclerder’ is also the Cornish word for light, and the estate at Trelawne was so renamed. The shrine survived the Trelawny family, who died out in the 1860s, being maintained by a succession of secular and religious clergy until it was taken over by Pauline de Bary, widow of Richard de Bary of Weston Hall, Worcs. Mrs de Bary restored the shrine and installed a wooden statue of Our Lady and the shrine became a pilgrimage centre. However, what Wilson describes as ‘various difficulties’ arose, and a decision was taken by Mrs de Bary and Mrs St John to move the shrine to another location. They approached Cardinal Vaughan, who suggested Clacton-on-Sea, where there was a need for a mission.
In 1895 the Oblates of St Charles at Bayswater were invited to take over the running of the shrine, and Cardinal Vaughan undertook to erect the Confraternity of Our Lady of Light there. Leonard Stokes prepared designs for a large church in his personal version of free Gothic, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896. This scheme was not pursued and instead in 1901 the Chapter of the Oblates approved the building of a small chapel, costing about £2000. After visiting Clacton however, Canon Wyndham, Father Superior of the Oblates, concluded that ‘the building of a small church or a cheap one does not seem practical. For a place as isolated as Clacton, the building itself should be expressive of the Holy Catholic Faith’ (quoted in Wilson etal, p.10). Canon Wyndham himself offered a considerable sum towards the project, and in April 1902 work started on a large church in Norman style, costing about £10,000, the design said to be based on St Bartholomew, Smithfield. The architect was F.W. Tasker and the builders Messrs S. Fancourt Halliday of Stamford, Lincolnshire. The foundation stone was laid by Canon Wyndham on 4 September 1902. The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Light and St Osyth, the Saxon abbess of a nearby convent and later Augustinian abbey. The western portion (nave and aisles) was opened on 24 May 1903 and the completed church opened on 15 October 1903. The Oblates of St Charles brought many items from London, including books and vestments, and four bells which were hung in the new tower.
In 1909 the sacristy was added at the east end and a Ketton stone pulpit introduced, the latter the gift of Mr A.G. Swannell, who also gave the high altar, communion rails and font. In the 1920s the carved wooden Stations of the Cross were put up and an oak war memorial lych gate built at the entrance to the churchyard.
In 1998 the sanctuary was reordered by the David Rackham Partnership. The church was consecrated by Bishop McMahon on 15 October 2004, 101 years to the day after the official opening.
The church is described in the list entry, below. Briefly, it is a large stone-built neo- Norman church consisting of nave, aisles, crossing tower with transepts and apsidal sanctuary with ambulatory. The design is said to have been modelled on that of St Bartholomew, Smithfield – the apse and ambulatory being the design features most in common.
Details of the interior in the list entry are very brief. To the right of the west doorway is the original baptistery, vaulted in stone, now a reconciliation room. The nave consists of five bays, with a stone gallery at the west end, and circular nave piers with scalloped capitals. Over this is a barrel vaulted roof, clad in Canadian redwood, as in the transepts. There is a high groin vault at the crossing, and the aisles are also groin vaulted. The sanctuary has a seven-arched arcade with a groin-vaulted ambulatory, with later sacristies beyond to the east. There are two side chapels on the eastern side of the transepts, to the Sacred Heart on the south side and the shrine to Our Lady of Light on the north side (figure 2), with the figure of Our Lady set within a neo- Romanesque aedicule. The square neo-Norman font has been placed in front of the sanctuary, probably as part of the 1998 reordering. The stone ambo and neo-Norman forward altar also presumably belong to that reordering, along with the removal of the high altar and communion rails. Stained glass in the church includes windows by Jones and Willis in the ambulatory, dating from c1903, and a depiction of Our Lady of Light in the nave, c1925.
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Clacton-On-Sea
Essex, England
June 26, 2012
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
HDR: Photmatix
IMG_1984
* A 55.5Mby, 3mins 33sec, MP4 phone Video, showing an Empty Coaching Stock scrap move from Clacton-on-Sea Carriage Servicing Depot to Masbrough P.S. Booths.
* NB: As this is longer than the fixed 3 minute viewing in the Flickr interface, the Video must be downloaded to the desktop to see the full length.
* Right-click on the down-arrow option, the last of the three options to the lower right of the video frame. Select 'Save-As' and view...
This is a two part video, the approach sequence which was edited to take out a 30 second car alarm wailing the distance, just as the 37 came around the corner in the distance, so not much useful footage was lost. The wailing stopped just as 37884 passed the line into Booths, the video has also been 'de-clicked', removing the camera shutter noise. In addition it has had some filtering applied to reduce the effects of the stark, overhead light; I am getting a bit more clever with all this now phone videos are being taken more often. The scene aspect isn't perfect in one or two places but that's me trying to operate the Canon still camera, make sure the phone points in the same direction and zooming both as and when required! Sometimes its not perfect... apologies..
Coming up-grade along the Holmes Chord, the G.C.R. metals are at a lower elevation, R.O.G., the 'Rail Operations Group' has class 37, 37884, 'Cepheus', ex-E3361, ex-D8404, in 'Europhoenix Livery' heading a set of old 'British Railways', class 321, 'Alternating Current Electric Multiple Units, No.s 321354 at the front and 321360 at the rear in 'Greater Anglia' livery, on the 5Q25, E.C.S. scrap move from the Clacton-on-Sea Carriage Servicing Depot to Masbrough P.S. Booths. 37884 will later leave the area on a light engine move, 0M58, from here and south through Sheffield to the Leicester L.I.P., Loco Inspection Point.
The second part of the video, showing the reversal action, starts at 56 seconds in, and as the view swings around to the east at about 2mins 40secs, in the background of the reversing loco on the right on the 'Old Road' bridge, the Daventry liner can just be seen. This is the D.R.S., hauled class 66, 66426, on the 4E49, Daventry International R.F.T. to Doncaster Marshgate, known colloquially as the 'Tesco train', and being 23 mins early, it is slowing for a stop at Masbrough north.