38 CONTEXT 175 : MARCH 2023 SEAN O’DELL Stalemate at Jaywick Sands Intended in the 1930s for holidaying Londoners, and with a reputation for stubbornly refusing to conform, the Jaywick Sands Estate in Essex has survived plans to demolish it. Jew Wick was one of the six Saint Osyth Marsh Wicks (with Cocketts Wick, Sea Wick, Wigborough Wick, Lee Wick and Well Wick), near Clacton-on-Sea in the Tendring District of North Essex. In January 1928 surveyor and entrepreneur Frank ‘Foff’ Stedman came to view his potential purchase of Jew Wick in the least favourable conditions, to see if the land would still look promising for his plans.1 By October that year he had purchased 320 acres of land that comprised Jaywick Farm.2 A full front-page advertisement in the Clacton Times in 1929 promised a range of housing options at Jaywick, on an estate served with a number of amenities and leisure facilities. ‘Bathing houses’ were also offered for sale. In the following June permission was given for six houses and bungalows at the southern end of the new road from Clacton. The programme was intended to progress with the blessing of the Clacton Urban District Council (CUDC). The initial vision was modified because of circumstances that Stedman did not foresee. 1 Lyons, M (2005) The Story of Jaywick Sands Estate, Chichester: Phillimore ² Eiden, H (2009) Victoria County History of Essex, Vol XI, Texts in Progress (Interwar Resorts), University of London One of the original bungalows at Jaywick Sands. Tendring District Council has recently built 10 houses (five for council rent and five for sale) in Wolseley Avenue. The Jaywick Sands Estate advertising in the local paper in 1929
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