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Southend Memories Large type / Large print Edition
Author(s): Dee Gordon (Author)
- Publisher: Reminiscence Large Print
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 2007
- Edition: Large type / Large print
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0753194589
- ISBN-13: 9780753194584
Book Description
The seafront in the 1950s was awash with day trippers, with trains into London running every ten minutes. There was hardly any traffic along the beachside roads apart from coaches and buses. Southend Memories is the unique and fascinating result of many conversations with the residents of the town, recalling life there during the 1950s and ’60s.Vivid memories are recounted -focusing particularly on social change. As well as schooldays, work and play, transport and entertainment, there are also memories of the late ’60s clashes between Mods and Rockers, of the infamous Wall of Death at the Kursaal, and of excursions to the longest pier in the world.
