Jaywick

I lived in Jaywick for most of my childhood from 1957 -1967 my name at that time was Barbara Mccallum I lived at the bottom Talbot avenue on the left with my mum and dad and 2 brothers and sister my dad worked at Butlins clacton in the summer and he allso called bingo in the local arcade and my mum worked in the chip shop down brooklands ,it was lovely in the summer people would return year after year for there hoilday to sunshine and sandy beach , but in the winter it was hard with storms that made the waves so high it wuld fload our roads and homes and because we didnt have running water inside our littlr home we had to get it outside in the taps in the street and most of the time they were frozen so we would go days without water but mum would allways have a pot on the fire to warm us up
.at that time all the roads were named after cars and when I went back there 3 years ago the old signs were still there I had a walked down my road and saw my name caved on the little Bridge that we used to play on when i was a little girl there was a stream but now its all gone it was sad and run down, and I'm not sure if anyone whatced the program on t.v called benfit street but it still has its lovely beach

Unfortunately, this type of television programme relies on rubbishing just about everything-it is totally UN-informative and is made for scurrilous entertainment purpose.