Clacton On Sea, Royal Hotel 1891

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Our Aunt had a really Art Deco property in Jaywick- curvey windows, flat roof the size of a football pitch(it seemed); huge room with amazing folding dividing doors. And the whole place smelt of Jaywick sand. Not polluted sand, but salt, iodine, seaweed. Yum! In the 1950s floods it stood proud on stilts above the sea! And opposite was the enticing Morrocco Café! Verboten. Just up the road was the "Dairy". A ...see more

This was Clacton`s `pride of the fleet` - I worked there as a entertainer on many occasions. I remember Derek Howes at the mighty theatre organ in the lounge/ballroom. The MU (Musicians Union) used to have their annual dances there. In latter days, I entertained the holiday makers and called bingo in my interval with Des. I spent many happy times in the front bar entertaining the `charabang outings` on ...see more

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a pet shop, two surgeries and a doctor `on call.` `Jeremy Oates` is the chemist who certainly knows his pills (He’ll mix you a `potient` that’ll soon cure all known ills) and `Kings Drug ...see more

I was born in Ilford, I lived in Romford then when I was 5 I when to Scotland, then about four and a half years later I went down back to Cranham, then I went to Romford.