Memory Lane Things that used to be there but now are not.

[MrB]

A bowling alley on the pier! I used to live in there, bowling in leagues 4 times a week. The Kursaal just isn't the same.

 

[Cricko]

A bowling alley on the pier! I used to live in there, bowling in leagues 4 times a week. The Kursaal just isn't the same.

Was it you who dropped the match?

 

[OldBlueLady]

This thread may have some memories, and not least cos Aberdeen's on there a lot!
http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/show...landmark-past-or-present.&highlight=Rosehills

 

[MrB]

Was it you who dropped the match?

No but at lot of my colleagues lost their bowling balls that day. We had a company league when I worked for CE Heath (the old Heath House along Vic Avenue which has been boarded up for a while but I understand there's problems demolishing due to asbestos) and most of the people had lockers down there, I was on the waiting list so had to carry my ball into work every Thursday. On the day it burnt down everyone was Discussing about their bowling balls melting but mine was safely next to my desk. I think it was a Wednesday in early June, not sure why I took my ball into work a day early, probably out on the lash that night.

 

[CyrilSneer]

When they built the new road link connecting the A127 and Rochford, must have been about 15 years ago now, they took most of the pitches away from Eastwoodbury lane. It used to have loads of pitches, like a mini hackney marshes. I scored one of my greatest goals on what is now a road.

 

[BrettieAngell]

The undergound bogs in the high street

Man they were proper rank!

 

[BrettieAngell]

The flower and fruit and veg stalls in the high street. Now just hight street outside burtons.

What happened to peter penny picker?

Penny piker steve you mean, he's still about!

 

[Cricko]

Man they were proper rank!

They were never as bad as the one's that used to be in the middle of Vic Circus ..they were Victorian and you risked your life and all manor of diseases heading down into the dark cesspit there.

 

[The Big Shrimp]

The dolphinarium & the outdoor swiming pool on the seafront! Very vague memories, but I do remember being taken there when I was a tot!

 

[Cricko]

The dolphinarium & the outdoor swiming pool on the seafront! Very vague memories, but I do remember being taken there when I was a tot!

Jayne a girl I used to know trained the Dolphins opposite where Talk is on the seafront.....

The Westcliff swimming pool is now the casino.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Keddies
The Cannon cinema in Westcliff where Halfords is (used to be a pound to get in)
Roller City
Skiddy Baroochees
Neverneverland

All key places of my childhood.

 

[* ORM *]

I nominate Jeans. In my day they made them to wear around the waist not just above the groin. Do any ladies find this remotely attractive ?

 

[BrettieAngell]

The boating lake where peter pans expanded into.

 

[Cricko]

The boating lake where peter pans expanded into.

 

[BrettieAngell]

I dont quite remember it like that!

My old man worked there and on one occasion had to fend off marauding millwall fans!

 

[Cricko]

you what??

That's it mate.

 

[shrimperman]

The Texaco garage in Rayleigh. Is sorely missed.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Where HMV is, they "modernised" the whole thing in the 60's and put up all the concrete that is there now although recently refurbished. I lived in Napier Avenue, and the arcade was a great place to explore. The smells of ham, bacon, cheese, tea (sold loose) in tea chests were wonderful. There was a great sweet shop in there, and another shop that would sell you broken biscuits. And also later Bobins book shop.

I remember Bobins book shop well.Spent many book tokens and a lot of time browsing there.

 

[osymandus]

It pains me that they pull down great buildings and we end with monstrosity's like that yellow dominoe set they have just built in town or worse still vic ave and the delights of the civic centre and the old social security building and college.

Have to say we do forget how many great Victorian and Edwardian buildings Southend had , a shame this has now gone , Hope teh Museum stays around . Also the Tudor influence .

 

[Cricko]

This thread may have some memories, and not least cos Aberdeen's on there a lot!
http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/show...landmark-past-or-present.&highlight=Rosehills

I knew we had been here before....nice find Kay..:clap: