Vista Road Recreation Ground Vista Road Recreation Ground Vista Road Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The first recorded first-class cricket match on the ground was in 1931 when Essex County Cricket Club played there against Lancashire. Essex played a total of 60 first-class matches on the ground between 1931 and 1966, playing their final first-class match there against Leicestershire in the 1966 County Championship. The ground has also held five Second XI fixtures between 1948 and 1952 for the Essex Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship. In local cricket, the ground is the home venue of Clacton Cricket Club.
Clacton County High School 1928 by Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (son of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh). CCHS became a comprehensive school in 1973. In 1998 it became an Arts College. In 2015 Neil Gallagher was appointed Principal and in 2016 the school formed the Sigma trust along with 5 other local schools. Former Principal Jeff Brindle was appointed to the role of trust CEO. The school converted to academy status on 1 April 2012. On the 1 September 2016 the school formed the Sigma Trust along with 5 other schools in the locality. Clacton County High School Clacton