3 AUGUST 1962, page 9

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......

Spectator's Notebook

E VEN the strongest must falter. In Brussels last Friday when the negotiations had ground themselves into gloom, and the room was thick with stale smoke, and papers spilled off......

Into The Haze

First there is Hadleigh Castle, guardian of the western marches. On a bluff east of Benfleet, set among smooth mounds of the grass which specialises in cloaking ruins, squat the......

Morning Off

Celebrating August Bank Holiday in ad - vance, I renewed my acquaintance with Southend-on-Sea. This was chiefly because in a conversation with a number of professional ex- perts......

The Merits Of Nic

By JOHN COLE r rtits could be the most interesting and poten- t tially fruitful year for industrial relations since the war. The agenda for the annual Trades Union Congress in......