3 AUGUST 1962, page 10

Totes Meer I Drove On And Round The Corner, Past

the glum barracks of Shoeburyness, through fields of blonde corn on the way to Foulness, until a War Department policeman stopped me. 'Where are you going?' To the sea wall.'......

Beside The Bawleys

Given time, one can prepare oneself gradually for the full splendours of Southend. After Had - leigh Castle there is Leigh: the demurely spread- ing dormitory above, the fishing......

Strong Tastes But I'm Glad Also That The Taste Of

East Enders is still robust and that Southend has not moved too abruptly out of its former character. Here we slosh on the ketchup, brown or red, and enjoy chips with......

End Of Term

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP A ND what a term it has been! Was it only jeighteen months ago that every commentator was busily forecasting twenty years of unbroken Tory rule? Somehow......

No Roaring Whores Still, I By Passed Leigh The Other

day, and sedate Chalkwell. and the thin beaches of Westcliff, and found the last vacant parking space on the front just west of Southend's prodigious pier. Three or four years......