Southend On Sea, The Boating Lake And Pier Hill c.1950

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Please can anyone help me with locating where this hotel was. My dad was in the army and my mother died in 1963 and we lived in the hotel for a while. I now live not far away but I have memories but cannot get my bearings as the hotel is no longer there. Can anyone help !!

College days in S.O.S were fun with Bi-Pak and Maplin providing components for the electronics I was studing, and the endless others forms of fun along the sea front. But the best memory was on the Pier. I was walking my little daughter Penny in her pushchair and stopped to chat with a gent. Penny at this age could not walk (so I thought). After a few minutes Penny got out of the chair and rushed headlong ...see more

Hi all, My father worked on the boating lake between the years 1950-52 and then again after his national service 1955-57. He has fond memories of those boats and the lake. Does anyone remember the name of the boats by any chance? We were talking about them the other day but he couldn't remember.

As a child in the early 1950's I can remember that the best part of our day out was the boat rides on this lake. I can still remember the smell from the engines. I grew up in Hornchurch and if I remember correctly we bought our first car in the early 50's and 3 or 4 times in the summer we would drive to Southend and maybe once we would go to Clacton.