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[* ORM *]

Just reminiscing and it occurred to me that there are people young enough here not to know things about our great town. I'll start with footie related ones since that was what I was thinking about.

Football at Snakes Lane where David Lloyd is now. The home of Hawthorna FC. Nice slope and if the keepers dropkick was high enough electricity pylon interfered with play. Football over Leigh marshes, uneven pitches and wooden changing rooms with more gaps than wood and undulating pitches. Waterside Farm used to be like that before they fiinally flattened them.

Other things that kids would never know. The Old Golden Hind and the lake just to the East of the Pier. The old SUFC scoreboard at Vic Circus shopping centre. The old bus station where Sainsburys is. Cricko remembers Prittlewell Priory in its heyday but there must be plenty of fine examples. Away you go.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Shell maze and giant shrimp outside C&A.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Bowling alley on Southend pier.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Keddies - The town started to die the day it closed down.

 

[Pubey]

There are probably young people on here who never experienced Skiddy Barooches.

 

[OldBlueLady]

The underground toilets in the High Street to the South of the railway bridge - used to scare the life out of me having to go down there!

The Old Post Office in Nelson Road where the Last Post is now - amazing interior, very imposing.

Keddies, agree with Mad Cyril, going to see Father Christmas there was every bit as good as going to the West End.

Dixons on the corner where WH Smiths is now, a store to rival Keddies.

Southend cinemas in their heyday - the Odeon, the Ritz and the ABC...when going to the cinema was a real experience.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Bowling alley on Southend pier.

Keddies - The town started to die the day it closed down.

Agreed.Happy days on both counts.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Southend cinemas in there heyday - the Odeon, the Ritz and the ABC...when going to the cinema was a real experience.

Absolutely.Don't forget The Esseldo(later classic)or the Mascot in Wescliff.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Absolutely.Don't forget The Esseldo(later classic)or the Mascot in Wescliff.

Yes, used to go to Saturday Club there, but was trying to keep to Southend itself.

Many happy memories of the bowling alley on the pier too, we did an annual 24 hour sponsored bowl there to raise money to take disabled children on holiday.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Goings Fishing at the top of Pier Hill, Peter Pans boating lake, The bottom Alex where Sandander is now.

 

[Eastblack]

Shell maze and giant shrimp outside C&A.

Had forgotten about those.

46 clothes shop
rosehills
the Boozy Rouge restaurant
Cawardines coffee shop
the Torchlight Procession

what was the name of the ice cream shop where the Body Shop is now?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Golden Disc

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Oh and High Society night club

 

[MK Shrimper]

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This thread made me think of this.....nothing to do with Southend. Soz!

 

[Kenny]

can anyone remember what The Hogshead (Slug & Lettuce) was called before it was the Hogshead?

 

[Nestudas]

Was it the aristocrat?

 

[Cricko]

Its all here for those on faceache.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/435655719854205/

 

[Firestorm]

Was it the aristocrat?

That is now the Townhouse down Queens rd
I dont think it was a pub before

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Yes, used to go to Saturday Club there, but was trying to keep to Southend itself.

Many happy memories of the bowling alley on the pier too, we did an annual 24 hour sponsored bowl there to raise money to take disabled children on holiday.

Snap.Stold my first kiss there.:smiles:

Used to go bowling (occasionally)and drinking at the bowling alley too.

 

[Mr Plow]

can anyone remember what The Hogshead (Slug & Lettuce) was called before it was the Hogshead?

I remember when it used to be an epic toy store, can't remember the name but it started with B I think.