epw024880 ENGLAND (1928). Southend old pier head and pier extension, Southend-on-Sea, 1928

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Title [EPW024880] Southend old pier head and pier extension, Southend-on-Sea, 1928
Reference EPW024880
Date 3-October-1928
Link
Place name SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
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District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 588928, 183075
Longitude / Latitude 0.72316036938576, 51.514477285748
National Grid Reference TQ889831

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The is Southend's just-arrived new RNLI LIfeboat "Greater London, (Civil Service No3)" - the FIRST motor Lifeboat at the Southend Station. The Pierhead Lifeboat House was not built until 1935 with it's steep slipway, at a cost of nearly £16,000. This lifeboat was one of 19 RNLI Boats that took part in the Dunkirk Evacuation; and was peremptorily-commandeered by the Royal Navy's Captain Jukes-Hughes at Dover, and sent across with16 other commandeered Lifeboats. The Greater London survived Dunkirk evacuation service with a crew who'd never seen the vessel before; and was back on Station by June 7th, 1940. She survived WW2 and was not retired until 1955. For anyone who wants to know more about the 36 "little ships" from the 7 miles of Southend area waterfront - from Canvey ["Monarch" and "Shamrock" went] to Shoebury [the SMNCo "Duchess of York" went]- that took part in the work of the inshore flotilla, ferrying soldiers from the evacuation beaches out to ship in deeper water, - search online for the 180-page non-fiction Southend local-History Paper -"To rescue Our Soldiers". .

bargee1937
Friday 28th of July 2017 03:48:16 PM
Southend Pier The second pier which replaced an earlier wooden pier, completed in 1889, with an extension in 1897. Further extended in 1927. Reputed to be the longest pleasure pier in the world at 1.34 miles. The single track electric railway was made double track in 1931. During WW2 the pier was "HMS Leigh" The shore-end pavilion was destroyed by fire in 1959 trapping several hundred on the pier who were rescued by lifeboat. The pier head suffered much fire damage in 1976, with firemen working from the pier, boats and an aircraft. By 1977 the shore end pavilion had been replaced by a bowling alley which was damaged by fire that year. It was proposed to close the pier in 1980 but a grant was forthcoming by 1983. The structure is Grade 2 listed. The electric railway was closed in 1978 and reopened as a diesel-operated railway in 1986. Between 1986-1989 the pier head was severed from the rest of the pier by a boat collision which destroyed the lifeboat house. In 1995 the reinstated landward bowling alley was destroyed by yet another fire. By 2005 it was again the turn of the pier head to suffer destruction by fire- destroying the Old Pier Head including the railway station, pub, shell shop, snack bar and ice cream shop. The final 15 metres of the railway track was lost. The pier reopened again in 2007. In 2012 a new pier head pavilion to a contemporary design (eg odd) was built to hold 185 people and serve as a theatre / exhibition space.

totoro
Wednesday 9th of March 2016 09:44:41 PM
'Southend-on-sea'

EZTD
Wednesday 1st of August 2012 10:24:18 PM