When I was a boy I spent hours upon hours on Southend Pier, walking its length, feeling its girth, teasing its claim to be the longest in the world at 1.25 miles. Its slot machine alleys whispered to me alluringly. Cheap, trashy items like tin rings and shoddy pen knives (that I would have left [...]
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Southend Pier – still standing, but not standing still.
Posted in Art, Childhood, Communication, Creative writing, History, Memory, Photography, tagged Estuary, Kent, Leigh-on-Sea, Longest Pier in the World, Mudflats, Old Leigh, Peter Stannard, Roy Stannard, Southend, Southend Pier, Thames on August 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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