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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
Clacton-on-Sea, England. Windy day at the beach. Tammy World, (AKA Fern), survived our recent fire, despite being exhausted from our recent tour of Europe. Here she is, in many of the places we went.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Coastal Cards Ltd. of Clacton-on-Sea. The card was posted in Walton-on-the Naze on Friday the 1st. June 1962 using a 2½d. stamp. The card was sent to:
Mrs. M. Sternberg,
12, Evelyn House,
Greatorex Street,
London E.1.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mum & Hymie,
Having a nice time but
the weather is cold.
I have got a nice lot of
women with me and I
feel a lot stronger.
Hope you are all OK.
Love,
Sophie."
Price Increases in the Soviet Union
So what else happened on the day that Sophie posted the card?
Well, on the 1st. June 1962, the Soviet Union raised the price of consumer goods by more than 25 percent in order to cover higher operating expenses for the U.S.S.R.'s collective farm program.
Butter was up 25%, and pork and beef by 30%. In protest, workers walked off of the job at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory, and the strike soon turned into an uprising.
Adolf Eichmann
The day also marked the death at the age of 56 of the German SS officer and war criminal Adolph Eichmann.
Eichmann was hanged in Ramlah, Israel, after his conviction for war crimes.
Otto Adolf Eichmann, who was born on the 19th. March 1906, was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust.
He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned.
Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe.
Eichmann was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and abducted by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and put on trial in 1961 before the Supreme Court of Israel.
The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.
Biography of Adolph Eichmann
After doing poorly in school, Eichmann briefly worked for his father's mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927, and joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932.
He returned to Germany in 1933, where he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, "Security Service"); there he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs – especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure.
After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated in ghettos in major cities, with the expectation that they would be transported either farther east or overseas. He also drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in southeast Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was carried out.
The Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union on the 22nd. June 1941, and their Jewish policy changed from coerced emigration to extermination.
To coordinate planning for the genocide, Eichmann's superior Reinhard Heydrich hosted the regime's administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on the 20th. January 1942.
Eichmann collected information for him, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed.
After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of the Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 75 per cent were murdered upon arrival.
By the time the transports were stopped in July 1944, 437,000 of Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been killed. Dieter Wisliceny testified at Nuremberg that Eichmann told him that:
"I would leap laughing into my grave because
the feeling that I had five million people on my
conscience would be for me a source of
extraordinary satisfaction."
After Germany's defeat in 1945, Eichmann was captured by US forces, but escaped from a detention camp and moved around Germany to avoid re-capture.
He ended up in a small village in Lower Saxony, where he lived until 1950, when he moved to Argentina using false papers he obtained with help of an organisation directed by Catholic bishop Alois Hudal.
Information collected by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, confirmed his location in 1960. A team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents captured Eichmann and brought him to Israel to stand trial on 15 criminal charges, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people.
During the trial, he did not deny the Holocaust or his role in organising it, but said he was simply following orders in a totalitarian Führerprinzip system.
He was found guilty on all charges, and was executed by hanging on the 1st. June 1962. The trial was widely followed in the media, and was later the subject of several books, including Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe Eichmann.
Twister Aerobatics Team and the FireFlies
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Thursday evening display
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Corbeau Seats Rally Tendring & Clacton 2019
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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
The Postcard
A card which was posted in Clacton-on-Sea on Friday the 7th. August 1908. It was sent to an address in Tyssen Road, Stoke Newington, London.
What the recipient read on the other side of the card over a century ago was as follows:
"Went to Frinton today.
We had a nice time.
It is just lovely now.
N. C."
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 the 11th. 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.
Viscount Curzon
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 7th. August 1908 marked the birth of Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, CBE, DL, JP.
Styled Viscount Curzon from 1929 to 1964, he was a British peer.
He was a campaigner for road safety - which did not prevent him from suggesting that the speed limit on motorways should be raised from 70 to 100 mph.
Viscount Curzon died on the 29th. May 1984. He was succeeded in the earldom by his second cousin, Frederick Curzon, 7th. Earl Howe.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Clacton-on-Sea using a ½d. stamp on Monday the 25th. July 1910. It was sent to:
Miss J. Jennett,
Post House,
Dorchester,
Nr. Wallingford,
Berks.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"23, Hayes Road,
Clacton-on-Sea.
25/7/10.
Dear Jan,
I expect you have heard
I am at Clacton, and
having a very nice time.
We have had plenty of
showers here - strong
ones too, but they soon
clear up.
Give my love to all,
Your affectionate cousin
Annie."
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.
Monday, Monday
Monday would seem to be the most popular day for posting postcards. An analysis of the posting days for cards on this photostream reveals the following:
Monday 1,701
Tuesday 1,208
Wednesday 1,227
Thursday 1,081
Friday 1,227
Saturday 1,285
Sunday 1,271
Drownings in Hungary
So what else happened on the day that Annie posted the card to Jan?
Well, on the 25th. July 1910, a sudden downpour in the Hungarian town of Diósd caused flash flooding of the Danube River, drowning at least 25 people.
North Middlesex University Hospital
Also on the 25th. July 1910, the North Middlesex University Hospital opened.
North Middlesex University Hospital, known locally as North Mid, is a district general hospital in Edmonton in the London Borough of Enfield.
-- History of the Hospital
The hospital was originally established as the infirmary for the workhouse at Langhedge Field. When it opened it was separated from the workhouse itself by an iron fence, although the two shared a common gate, which still stands today.
In 1915 the complex was handed over to the military for use as a military hospital, when it became known as Edmonton Military Hospital.
Following its transfer back into civilian hands in 1920, the hospital became the North Middlesex Hospital.
In 1934 the hospital was the first British hospital to appoint a radiotherapist (Margaret Bromhall) to lead a radiotherapy department.
In 1938 the workhouse closed, with inmates being transferred to Chase Farm, and its buildings were made available to the hospital.
During the Second World War, six high explosive bombs fell on the site, damaging several buildings. Upon the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, Southgate Isolation Hospital became an annexe of the North Middlesex, and was renamed Greentrees Hospital.
The accident and emergency department opened in 1955, having been built on the bombed section of the site. A new outpatients' department was officially opened by Princess Margaret in April 1960.
Part of the hospital site was cleared to make way for the expansion of the North Circular Road in 1973, with the Watermill Lane site being added to the hospital grounds to compensate. Construction of the buildings there was completed the following year.
Additions in the 1980's included new pathology laboratories in 1982, a new car park, boilerhouse and estates offices in 1987, and the Pymmes Building (housing four elderly care wards) in 1988.
Temporary operating theatres (Theatres 3 and 4) were constructed in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
In the late 1990's, parts of the hospital site were sold off for development in order to raise funds for the refurbishment of the remaining facilities. As a result, the accident and emergency department was refitted in 1999. In 2000, an NHS Walk-in centre was added.
The hospital became the North Middlesex University Hospital in 2001.
New facilities, including a new diagnostic centre, inpatient wards, operating theatres, an outpatients' department and an Accident & Emergency department, were procured under a Private Finance Initiative to replace the aging facilities in October 2007.
A new women's and children's unit was established under the Procure 21 Plus initiative; it was built by Kier Group at a cost of £80 million, and opened in November 2013.
-- The Hospital's Performance
The Trust did poorly in the cancer patient experience survey of 2015/6, and agreed to pair up with Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, which did very well. The pairing was intended to spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”.
Eleven trainee anaesthetists were withdrawn from the trust by Health Education England in September 2015 because they were not receiving adequate supervision. The General Medical Council had been raising concerns since 2009.
In the last quarter of 2015 the hospital had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four-hour waiting target, and in January it was the worst, seeing just 66.4% of A&E patients within 4 hours.
The hospital was ordered by the Care Quality Commission in June 2016 to improve the performance of its Accident and Emergency Department. The inspectors found:
"There are delays in the initial assessment of
patients, in their assessment by a doctor, and
in moving them to specialist wards.
There are also insufficient middle grade
doctors and consultants.”
In February 2020 the Care Quality Commission praised the continuing improvements in the Accident and Emergency department at North Middlesex University Hospital in an inspection report. England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Ted Baker, said:
"Care provided at the North Middlesex
University Hospital emergency department
has continued to improve, and I am pleased
to see it".