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Clacton Jetty; originally built for off-loading of building materials needed for the construction of Clacton-on-Sea. However, as an unlading charge was made for such usage, a lot of the Thames barges delivering bricks etc. simply beached their vessels around high tide, off-loaded their cargo and departed on the next rising tide thus avoiding the levy.
On 25th. April 1914, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, was being flown over the sea north to Felixtowe but his plane started 'missing' on two cylinders and, as it was a seaplane, it was thought prudent to land close to Clacton Beach. When Mr. Churchill's replacement plane arrived to pick him up it was from this jetty that he departed.
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