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
Sunshine Coast Line Wivenhoe to , which opened on 17 April 1866. There were also proposals to build a line to Clacton as early as 1866, but nothing came of them until 1877, when the Clacton-on-Sea Railway was incorporated. The connection from to Clacton opened on 4 July 1882, also operated by the GER. The GER soon negotiated to buy both the Tendring Hundred Railway and the Clacton-on-Sea Railway, and both became part of the GER on 1 July 1883. The Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea company was absorbed by the GER on 9 June 1893. In 1923 the line (along with the rest of