Happy Days At Jaywick!

A Memory of Jaywick.

My family had a holiday in Jaywick every summer, from when I was 5 up until I was about 15 years old. We would stay in bungalows on stilts!! My brothers and me thought this was wonderful,and would run and play under these bungalows.
The weather always seemed to be baking hot, and I remember the sand burning my feet!
At night, my family and all the other relations who  were on holiday with us, would go to the Morocco Club, and stay there till closing time. I vaguely remember me and my brothers going upstairs  where there were lots of slot machines.
My mum used to hire a bright orange pushchair for my younger brothers, and we would walk to Clacton Pier,and I went on Steel Stellar!!! I remember being so scared as I was only about 7 or 8 at the time!!
The only thing I didn't like about these holidays was the awful smell when the
lorries came round to empty the outside toilets!
We went back recently to Jaywick- it  looks a bit desolate now, but even so, I had a lump in my throat when I visualised all the happy times we had there, and pictured my dear old dad, who died in 1996, and wished those times could come back again.