All our Yesterdays, February 24 (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)

All our Yesterdays, February 24

9:34am Tuesday 24th February 2009

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20 YEARS AGO.

URGENT action is to be taken at a notorious accident black spot following the fourth crash there in just three weeks.

Great Holland residents have been fighting for several years to get something done to make safe the bend on Kirby Road at its junction with Pork Lane.

The bend borders the village green, and fears have been expressed for the safety of children who live there, as several cars have crashed through into the play area.

Now county councillors have brought forward next year’s plans to straighten out and widen the bend, which is on the main Clacton to Walton road.

A county council spokesman said: “It has got a very high priority. The scheme could start anywhere from April onwards.”

In the latest incident on Saturday morning, a lorry crashed through a hedge and ended up with it’s cab on the playing field.

50 YEARS AGO.

THE Freeholders of Jaywick, Ltd, decided at their annual meeting in London on Monday to go ahead “with all expedition” with a surface drainage scheme for the old section of Jaywick.

They also agreed unanimously that each bungalow owner in the section should be asked for a capital sum of 315 towards the cost of the scheme.

Mr E.J. Lansbury, the hon. secretary, told members that those who had spent the greater part of last season in the old section of the estate were well aware of the great dissatisfaction expressed by visitors at the amount of surface water.

60 YEARS AGO.

RIDING on the tail of a 60 m.p.h. gale, March came in like a lion on Tuesday to spread a tale of devastation and flood over a wide area of North-Esat Essex.

Backed by high winds, exceptionally heavy seas battered their way over sea defences at many places along the eastern coastline. Beach huts, sheds and furniture were swept out to sea and many families were marooned in their bungalow homes for several hours.

The floods struck indiscriminately, Clacton, Frinton, Walton and Kirby all taking their share of the damage.

One of the worst hit places was Jaywick, where the Brooklands and Grasslands holiday bungalow estates were swamped - Brooklands for the second time in seven months. Flooding in most parts was worse than the disastrous incident last August when 2,000 holiday-makers were made homeless.

90 YEARS AGO.

A SCENE in a bungalow at Little Holland, Clacton-on-Sea, when Mr. Frank Davall, proprietor of the Clacton Steam Laundry, tried to collect a laundry bill of 2s. 7½d., on Wednesday led to an action for assault and trespass being heard in the King’s Bench Division by Mr. Justice Darling.

The plaintiffs were Mr. Walter Tappenden and his wife, of Alexandra Mansions, West Hampstead.

Mrs Tappenden said that Mr. Davall called just as she had boiled about 9lb of jam. He pushed his way into the kitchen, and when she said he could sue her the county court he replied, “I wont take the trouble to do that way, I’ll take it out of you this way.”

With that, she said, he caught hold of the table on which the newly turned-out jam was standing and threw it over the floor and down one side of her skirt, burning her legs.

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