F.C. Clacton as a potential new home for the club in the 1970s. A small stand was built on one side of the pitch with three rows of bench seating, which was given the name 'the Loft'. A covered stand was later erected on the other side of the pitch; it became known as the 'Bus Shelter', with a bus timetable and bus stop sign added to it. In 2000 another covered stand was built behind one goal. F.C. Clacton F.C. Clacton is a football club based in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England. The club are currently members of the and play at the
Clacton-on-Sea eventually demolished in 1918. Nowadays, the town's main industrial area is in the northeast of the town (Gorse Lane Industrial Estate and Oakwood Business Park) which contain a variety of businesses and industrial units. St John's Church is the oldest surviving building in Clacton. It has been suggested that smugglers may have used a tunnel from the coast to the Ship Inn to smuggle goods into the country, but this is discounted by some historians. Clacton Pier was the first building of the new resort of Clacton-on-Sea. It officially opened on 27 July 1871 and was in length and wide.