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They developed an infrastructure that was community driven where people were brought together. From the Westcliff Lido, Warrior Square Swimming Pool to Southend Marine Activity Centre, York Road Market and Europe's biggest amusement park, the Kursaal. One such ambitious development was the world's longest pleasure pier. Today this would never happen!

Dreaming big in our era is to paint a fence, plant a tree or replace a cracked paving stone with asphalt.

We have a fight on our hands

It’s like the ‘ideas people’ have been pulling their bodies across endless miles of desert, tight lipped, delirious, and delusional as they recollect some glitch of creativity on the way to a mirage, housing one last warm and muddied droplet in a pothole. (Yes, I squeezed that analogy for all it was worth - I apologise. I went for Roald Dahl and got Quentin Letts.)

Residents no longer cry out for anything much these days, as their expectations have been eradicated. We have a fight on our hands to even retain weekly bin collections, or turning our streetlights back on at night, or having the grass cut more than once a year, or to reverse charges to park in our parks and preventing the council from putting all parking charges, council tax, fees, charges and to put council charges up continually! That's aside from defending Jazz UK from eviction from the Beecroft, demolishing Southend’s Cricket Pavilion plus keeping Southend's