Memory Lane Favourite Southend landmark - past or present.

[jassyfa1]

To us older folk it was the Bottom Alex.

I thought the top and bottom alex was the same pub with the top alex bein ga late night drinking den/nightclub. Drummonds was on the corner of Alexander street opposite the fish and chip shop.

 

[McNasty]

I thought the top and bottom alex was the same pub with the top alex bein ga late night drinking den/nightclub. Drummonds was on the corner of Alexander street opposite the fish and chip shop.

If you go back far enough the one on the corner was the bottom alex and the existing pub was the top.

 

[McNasty]

The pub on the corner was called the "Alexandra Arms" and the pub up the road was the "Alexandra Hotel" according to a historical pub site.

 

[londonblue]

Keddies was great cos you could spend ages messing about in there!

A mate of mine once stole the hand from one of their mannequins. That night we went to the old ABC Cinema (remember that) where he pretended it was his hand. He paid for his ticket with it and gave the ticket seller the shock of her life. He then asked a really cute girl for a light, and when she held up her cigarette lighter she got a face full of a plastic hand with a cigarette wedged between two of the fingers.

You should have heard her scream!

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

I used to enjoy playing 'spot the mentalist' from the mezzanine in the Dickens before it went all plastic paddy...

 

[SouthendersTrueFaith]

I used to enjoy playing 'spot the mentalist' from the mezzanine in the Dickens before it went all plastic paddy...

Great memories of the Dickens:dizzy:. I think the Alex used to be the Fish and Firkin. Indie night Fri/Sat upstairs.:clap:

 

[Kent Shrimper]

I was also the kind of geek that loitered around Estuary, Computerama, Software plus and annoyed Dixons staff with:

10 print "You are w***er!"
20 goto 10
run

I used to work in Estuary, real good bunch of people. 2 of them Keith and Spike have gone on to make a success of SES Computers by Ali Babas on th roundabout

 

[Kent Shrimper]

The 'In Shops' in Victoria circus.

THE place to shop if you wanted a lilac Explosive Fibres tracksuit circa 1989/90.

Hahaha thats where i got my ear pierced

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

 

[Mr Gilbo]

I remember the old odeon being really huge. I wish that they had kept it and done it up aswell as giving us the one at the end of the high street.

I've been told that the new empire theatre is bigger that it currently is. With the stalls actually being the circle in the old building. It is a suspensed floor and the old stalls are still there with the old stage underneath where you would currently sit.

 

[BrettieAngell]

nffc on tour!!

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Me, personally, has to be Southend beach.

 

[Bielzibubz]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Rosebury's! On the right just after the train bridge, if memory serves. THE place to get all the latest in fashion clothing for the young man back in the mid to late 70's.

Also, The Lions Tea Rooms. Many happy memories of my old man taking me and my sister down town on a Saturday morning, buying us each what seemed at the time an absolutely HUGE Curly Wirly from a shop at the top of the High Street and trying to cram the whole bloody thing into our gobs before we got to the Tea Rooms where we immediately tucked into a Knickerbockerglory (mix of different flavour ice creams, cherry's, cream and a ball of bubble gum at the bottom)

Ohhhhh the memories :clap:

 

[McNasty]

Also, The Lyons Tea Rooms. Many happy memories of my old man taking me and my sister down town on a Saturday morning, buying us each what seemed at the time an absolutely HUGE Curly Wirly from a shop at the top of the High Street and trying to cram the whole bloody thing into our gobs before we got to the Tea Rooms where we immediately tucked into a Knickerbockerglory (mix of different flavour ice creams, cherry's, cream and a ball of bubble gum at the bottom)

Ohhhhh the memories :clap:

Was this where you met Queen Victoria ?

 

[Bielzibubz]

:O You cheeky bugger Kenneth, it wasn't THAT long ago. I kept telling myself that as I was reminiscing and I shall continue to do so no matter what sarky remarks you or anyone else come out with.

Now I got to go. Bags needs changing, I'm dribbling uncontrollably and it's time for my mid afternoon nap. :cricko:

 

[Rob Noxious]

.....and one of my favourite haunts as a kid,in fact where I brought my first ever record from ......Kelleys records

Oh, yes! Remember the booths where you could hear the records in? No-one's mentioned Guy Norris; I used to stand in awe at all the album covers in their window, wishing that my paper round would pay a bit more...:'(... also used to like Downtown near The Plough...oh yeah, Projection Records* in Leigh. Barry Martin (now in The Hamsters and once of The Kursaal Flyers) used to work there in the late '70s.

*now the home of an old school-mate who won't tell me his nom-de-plume here. Joker, where/who are you? Give me a clue, you old rascal!

 

[Mad Cyril]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Rosebury's! On the right just after the train bridge, if memory serves. THE place to get all the latest in fashion clothing for the young man back in the mid to late 70's.

Also, The Lions Tea Rooms. Many happy memories of my old man taking me and my sister down town on a Saturday morning, buying us each what seemed at the time an absolutely HUGE Curly Wirly from a shop at the top of the High Street and trying to cram the whole bloody thing into our gobs before we got to the Tea Rooms where we immediately tucked into a Knickerbockerglory (mix of different flavour ice creams, cherry's, cream and a ball of bubble gum at the bottom)

Ohhhhh the memories :clap:

Do you mean Rosehills?

I bought my first (and only) Leo Gemelli from there.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Not sure if anyone remembers it or if it's even still there, but there was a big fake spider on the front of a house in Southend between the Warners Bridge roundabout and the roundabout down by the Motor bike shop, can’t remember the name of the road. I remember it as a kid going in to Southend by car with my mum and dad from Rochford.

 

[duncan bulgaria]

Once got thrown out of the toy shop on the corner near Post office for making the special new gluey sand that they had in the front of the shop into a big giant penis . We spent about 5 mins on making sure it was a work of art .

Got a good few laughs and the lady that had the job of patting it down had defo had previous experience in pipe handling and showed exempt skills as she went straight for the shaft followed by the helmet followed by the balls . ( Ladies , theres a lesson for all you novice pipe handlers out there )

Also next door but one used to be a arts and craft shop with a big poster of the one and only Bob Ross .....what a legend that man was , forget Ron Martins main thi sman had enough hair for ten men .

 

[Sean 2]

The best recollections of Southend for me was chasing the rockers down Pier Hill. SKINS!SKINS!SKINS!
I still love Pier Hill:)