Southend On Sea, c.1960
Photo ref:
S155134
Photo ref:
S155134
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Memories of Southend-on-Sea, c1960
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Southend On Sea, c.1960
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We moved to Sandringham road in the early 60's I went to Southchurch Hall HS for boys. I remember the technical drawing class room was a portacabin to the left of the main gates, the woodwork classroom was at the bottom of the playground, and the metalwork class room was to the right of the playground. One very cold winter we had a slide, solid sheet ice, going down the playground straight ...see more
IIRC, the "Westcliffe Belle" was a conversion by Johnson & Jago, Boatbuilders of leigh-on-Sea, of one of the big sailing yawls or ketches that had worked off the Foreshore pre-WW2, giving excursions out into the Estuary to see the very busy Shipping.
I remember this motorboat working from the first Beach Pitch to the West of the Pier, from the beach ...see more
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