We had a slightly surreal Boxing Day outing to Bataville, the Czech model town established by Tomáš Baťa in a particularly bleak part of the Essex Marshes beyond Tilbury.  Baťa himself died in a plane crash shortly afterwards, but is commemorated by a fine statue by Joseph Hermon Cawthra, a now forgotten monumental sculptor trained at Leeds School of Art, the Royal College of Art and then the Royal Academy Schools:-

This is the factory:-

And some of the model housing:-