Happy Days at St Osyth
I lived with my family in Kingsbury NW9 and we used to holiday at St Osyth from 1960 -1965. Mum, Dad six children, plus Nan, Grandad and Auntie! The first year we had a caravan on the then magnificent beach, then a caravan per family on the only site at the time. Nan particularly enjoyed our evenings up at The Monks Head clubhouse - plenty of Guiness! We also enjoyed searching for cockles and winkles when the tide had gone out!
The beach front had shops selling all sorts of goodies from buckets, spades, gifts, sweets, etc to bakery, butchers, paper shop, beach cafe. The sea has now claimed all of this.
Family walks into St Osyth village, Point Clear in one direction and Jaywick Sands in the other, provided us all with plenty of interest and amusement. Sadly, Jaywick Sands is not the place it was...
Happy days indeed. I would like to go back but part of me prefers to remember it as it was...
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This brings back many memories. When I was a child, my aunt and two uncles lived in Leyton, East London; my mum and dad and I in Chelmsford. We holidayed on St Osyth Beach for more than 10 years - in a caravan, then a chalet, right on the beach owned my a Miss Evans who had siamese cats! There was a pink chalet and a yellow one,I think. We walked to the Beach Cafe every day for lunch. I remember it was delicious food. I also remember the newsagents and other shops and I seem to recall a bumpy road leading to the caravans etc and on the other side, marshes and a sea-wall? It was steep with grey concrete tiles. We would walk to Jaywick, and there was amusements, shops, music and a cafe. We also walked to the village, had dinner at Gentry`s visited the Priory - and I have a very vague memory of somewhere, possibly a pub, that had animals out the back? Very happy memories - I am wondering when the sea reclaimed St Osyth beach, as I remember it?
Comment from CAROLE HOCKLEY on Thursday, 19th April 2012.