Peter Bruff

Peter Bruff

Peter Schuyler Bruff (1812–1900), born in Portsmouth, England, was a civil engineer best known for founding the seaside resort town of Clacton on Sea, Essex, and for improving the lives of residents in the Essex towns of Walton-on-the-Naze, Colchester and Harwich. By the time of his death in 1900, Peter Bruff had helped turn what had thirty years before been an empty piece of farmland with a beach into the flourishing seaside town of Clacton on Sea.

Read more about Peter Bruff:  Eastern Counties Railway, Contributions To Walton, Contributions To Clacton

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