May 5 2006. An well-illustrated article for tourists by Laurie Forsyth in the May edition of Essex Magazine (pp. 13-15, Cambridge Newspapers) describes the geology of fossils collected from the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, derived from the early ‘Ice Age’ Red Crag and Paleocene/Eocene boundary strata of the similarly submarine London Clay Formation. This year tourists to Southend can hardly avoid noticing geological phenomena and they are noted here as additional information to the Essex Magazine account of slumping and the London Clay. However two mistakes need to be rectified. It is stated that the London Clay was deposited forty million years ago and nearer to the equator, resulting in tropical fossils being sunk offshore and now found as stone concretions. Actually if one accepts that the dinosaurs and ammonites became extinct 65 million years ago, then the correct date for the Walton London Clay deposition was 53 or perhaps even 55 million years ago, and not 40 when the whole Earth was just starting to change towards cooler climates and lower sea-levels seen now. One should not be complacent about that trend being reversed, London and Essex were one hundred metres below the waves during London Clay deposition, with the North Sea coast in Dorset. The paleomagnetic evidence for the position of England then would only move it down a little to central France.