Time runs out for Southends millenium clock

[Mad Cyril]

Time runs out for Southends millenium clock.

I would like this eyesore replaced with the giant plastic lobster and shell maze which I assume are in storage somewhere?

 

[class]

Where will all the skaters and Emo's congregate now?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Where will all the skaters and Emo's congregate now?

Hopefully in an austere military boarding school.

 

[NZamba Legend]

Skaters and emos are the backbone of the nation.

 

[TrueBlue]

How about a permanent home for the Owl Man?

 

[BrettieAngell]

Another fine waste of money by our wonderful council.

 

[NZamba Legend]

For me, that clock always looked like it belonged in the 1990s and felt 'out-of-date' as soon as it was unveiled in 2000. A symbol of the fortunes of Southend itself? The fact that it is being removed is interesting too- does this mean that the new millenium has been cancelled only ten years in? Perhaps it signifies the closing of time for workers at HSBC, Eon and elsewhere in the town, perhaps the death of the 'Great British town centre'. Maybe even this apparently insignificant event in a forgotten corner of England signals the end of history itself- the collapse of the very idea of historical progress.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The passing of the clock does free up a bit more lebensraum for the annual Kriskindle market blitzkreig.

Not sure about anyone else but I like my market traders to be either from the Pete Beale camp (moonboots, money belt and flat cap) or butchers with a microphone whipping up punters into a frenzy for cheap meat.

There is something about those fake ski lodge market stalls I find quite unsavoury.