Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - Eastern Promenade - Raphael Tuck real photo 1949

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• Picture / Image:  Eastern Promenade, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - real photo type
• Publisher:  Raphael Tuck Real Photograph
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d orange
• Postmark(s):  Clacton-on-Sea 3 June 1949 'Fly By British Airways' slogan postmark
• Sent to:  Miss Brice, Old Rectory Cottage, Houghton, Huntingdonshire
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Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town in the Tendring peninsula and district in Essex, England and was founded as an (Urban District) in 1871. Clacton 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.

It is located between Jaywick and Holland-on-Sea along the coastline and Great Clacton to the north. The relevant local authority is Tendring District Council.

It is at the south-eastern end of the A133. The resort of Frinton-on-Sea is nearby to the north-east.

Clacton has a pleasure pier, arcades, a golf course, caravan parks and an airfield. The town and its beaches are still popular with tourists in the summer, and there is an annual entertainment programme including the Clacton carnival, which starts on the second Saturday in August and lasts for a week. Clacton Airshow, an aerial display, takes place on the Thursday and Friday before the August Bank Holiday, with historic and modern aircraft such as the Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane, Harrier, Jaguar, Tornado, and helicopters. There are also wing-walkers and the Red Arrows.

Clacton has a shopping area with many of the usual national chains represented, and a Factory Shopping Village in the north of the town.

Clacton has two theatres, the West Cliff Theatre and the Princes Theatre. The West Cliff is one of the last theatres in the country to put on an old style summer show.

Clacton was a site of the lower Palaeolithic Clactonian industry of flint tool manufacture^{[citation needed]}. Great Clacton was founded by the Celts around 100 BC^{[citation needed]}. There are some vague traces of Romans using the Clacton area as a seaside resort. The name Clacton dates from around AD 500, when the area was settled by Saxons. The original name, Claccingaton, means ""the village of Clacc's people"". The Domesday Book records the village as Clachintuna.

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=clacton-on-sea

period=post-war (1945-present)

publisher=raphael tuck & sons

postage condition=posted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)