please empty your brain below
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Beautiful.
tops | 08.09.20 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Yes,just right. Southend in a nutshell. 👍🏻
Jo W | 08.09.20 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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Memories of last year for me. I still haven’t been anywhere by the sea this year.
Sprout Eater | 08.09.20 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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Your mention of the pier's lower deck instantly reminded me of a section of Rachael Liechtenstein's brilliant book about the mouth of the Thames, Estuary. Her encounter with the lower platform is a masterpiece of evocative writing,
Waterhouse | 08.09.20 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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There is nowhere quite like Southend.
(Other Thames Estuary Resorts are available).
Malcolm | 08.09.20 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Train
Should never have been de-electrified.
Petras409 | 08.09.20 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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Rossi's is the best ice cream that I've ever tasted (unless it's changed since my last one around 20 years ago).
Rogmi | 08.09.20 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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Yes!
Rossi's on Ilford Broadway 50 years ago.
francis | 08.09.20 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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I agree about Rossis - I have always made a beeline for the one at soouthend on my rare visits (makes the long journey worthwhile). I seem to remember one in Broadstairs too (many years ago)
Ian J | 08.09.20 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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I got married at the end of the pier in the pavillion. Got our own train to go up on. Was very windy, the kilts were probably not a good idea was a bit chilly underneath.
Jack | 08.09.20 - 10:32 a.m. | #
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There is still a Rossi Bros ice cream parlour in Barkingside. For many years they had their own premises on the High Street there, but in 2018 they relocated to inside Quidsaver.
Alan S | 08.09.20 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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So it appears boards are lengthways on piers with a metal structure and crossways on those with wooden supports.
Cau1khead | 08.09.20 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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Excellent, especially when read in the voice of John Betjeman (which reminds me, the other train is named after him).
But the pier isn't quite the same since the Art Deco gloriousness of the electric trains disappeared.
Man of Kent | 08.09.20 - 1:51 p.m. | #
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Our home town!
Lovely words and pictures to describe an iconic excursion.
We were just thinking the other day that we need to take our almost 5 year old grandson down the pier before the trains are replaced next spring. He starts "big" school next Monday so we need to do it quickly!
John Simmons | 08.09.20 - 2:10 p.m. | #
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My home town like John's above.
Pity the Cliff Lift isn't working although the 200 yard climb up Pier Hill is the active alternative, because the view from Clifftown Parade / Royal Terrace across the estuary towards the Kent coast and the North Sea is excellent and well worth the effort.
IanD | 08.09.20 - 3:12 p.m. | #
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The form and content reminds me of this.
LS | 08.09.20 - 5:42 p.m. | #
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Twelve stanzas of what might be called truncated cinquains. Four lines: one word, four, five and seven stresses.
I don't really like poetry, but imposing a form often brings out the best.
Roger Depledge | 09.09.20 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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I don't know about cinquains but I do know it reads like a Half Man Half Biscuit lyric sheet.
Graham | 09.09.20 - 6:39 p.m. | #
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