with around 10,000 residents by 1914 and 20,000 by 1939. Due to its accessibility from the East End of London and the Essex suburbs, the town, like Southend, remained preferentially geared to catering for working-class and lower-middle-class holidaymakers.

For well over a century, Clacton Pier has been used as an RNLI lifeboat station.

Just before the Second World War, the building of Butlin's Holiday Camp boosted

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