This is the annual Sunday School treat - wagons and carts carried the children to Kelvedon Station where they took the train to Clacton returning late and exhausted leaving many with wonderful memories recalled in later life - see below.
Date: 1905
Ref 15/04



'How vividly the annual Sunday School excursion to Clacton stands out! Excitement, the flags, the gaily decorated farmers wagons, the jolting jarring journey to Kelvedon all come back again and we are children once more, singing choruses, shouting to all and sundry as we go. Then the silver sea, tea at Riggs Retreat, Clacton rock and all the fun of the seaside. What a day!
How tiredly we wended our way to the station then Kelvedon again. With shouts we welcome the waiting waggons and with a blare of penny trumpets we arrive on Market Hill. The hymn- "Praise God from Whom all Blessings Grow" (generally started by Dad) and the Benediction closed those perfect days. And so to bed.

A Clacton Sunday School excursion recalled in October 1936 by Walter Kirkham Judges, then living in Toronto, Canada.
From Coggeshall Association Magazine 1936
If you look carefully at the photo you can see Walter's dad's shop 'Judges' behind the second wagon.