Southend-On-Sea, The Place To Be. 

Even just 20 years back, everything seemed so ordered and 'proper', not like today's shambles.

I remember the high street looking like that, just seemed much nicer then. I also remember fishing on the pier that summer and it was hot. Southend just seems so gloomy now like all the hope has escaped, maybe it's just me or maybe it's just Britain in the 21st century.

Southend was a lovely place!

What has SBC done to Southend since those glory days? banned airshows, banned seafront bike shows, ruined the High Street, taken away seafront parking, ruined pier hill and driven the day trippers away, oh they must be bloody proud.

unbelievable!!! Just watched this with my wife and she's in it!! At the raft race, her and her brother and cousin. Totally blew her mind lol.

Oh to be back to normal and good ole times just like this, before the horrible Covid-19 I miss my old home town Southend-on-Sea

This was the late 80’s. I used to work at the Currys store which was closed in 1990

Grew up here for a few years back in the early 50’s,my Dad & Brother were born in Southend.Loads of my Family still live nearby..Thorpe Bay,Westcliff,Shoebury…we moved from there to Toronto,then to Victoria B.C. then on to Southern California…Seal Beach.

When Southend and England were proud to be English

Oh how times have changed and not for the better!

I lived just off the seafront 88 - 98... the best think I did was move.

Born here 1970. Now live opposite side of the world.

The propaganda dept out again. Southend is far from that now, had to go back last year, believe me, it is a s****hole now.

Hi there, we've been enjoying watching this. (especially as we make walks in soulful cities and have just filmed in in Leigh on sea and Southend), so it's lovely to see the contrast. It's also our home town. Thanks for taking the time to add it.

WAS...The place to be!!!

You can't go down the seafront anymore without fear of being stabbed.

The Dinosour in the High st would now be canceled and arrested for public offence!!

If you visit southend after a sunny bank holiday it closely resembles Glastonbury with the amount of debris left behind. Many yrs ago people had far more respect and took rubbish home. Camera's & hard nosed traffic wardens seem to be an issue too , so I'm told.

The air show was in 1989!? I was in Southend just finished A level ready to go to Hatfield Polytechnic!

It's not been the place to be since Hammerson destroyed Talza. The beginning of the end.

Leigh on Sea born and bred

And the stalls who sold muscles and winkled

Now it’s a no go area and we all know why

Does anyone have any footage or pictures of The Fantasy Dome that used to be there?, it was my favourite attraction as a kid but all memories of it seem to have been lost, and there isn't much footage of it anywhere sadly

Which year was this ? I think I see my windsurf board on my balcony on Eastern Esplanade at 9:40 minutes, during the raft race ! I live in Derbyshire now ... miss the coast though.

As I write this comment reports are coming in of rival drug gangs clashing at the seafront with at least one stabbing so far 😔

Did you have a relative called Bert Izod had a second hand shop in Southend.

Who is the big black guy?

what a downgrade, Frank Bruno to Gemma Collins