Comments on: A Walk From Shoeburyness To Chalkwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/28/a-walk-from-shoeburyness-to-chalkwell-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: DR CHARLES S.P. JENKINS https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/28/a-walk-from-shoeburyness-to-chalkwell-i/#comment-1617196 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:38:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200623#comment-1617196 As I child and young boy, I went to Westcliff/Southend often – I loved the walks from Shoeburyness to Leigh-on-Sea. Wonderful days and wonderful memories.

We would take the train FROM Fenchurch Street Station and I loved the journey.

I was disappointed to note that EVEN The Gentle Author is ‘going American’ with his use of prepositions – ‘the train OUT OF Fenchurch Street’!!!!

I live in the US and have to tolerate American English. It is breaking my heart that old ENGLISH expressions are being forgotten (e.g., the devil and the deep blue sea) for an American one (e.g., a rock and a hard place) and simple prepositions are also being exchanged for an American version.

PLEASE do not add to the creeping, crawling and smothering Americanisation of Britain.

]]> By: Frances Christine Bevan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/28/a-walk-from-shoeburyness-to-chalkwell-i/#comment-1617163 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:12:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200623#comment-1617163 During my childhood in the late 50s we regularly travelled from our home in Brixton, South London to spend a day at Thorpe Bay. My parents enjoyed a liesurely stroll along the seafront while I, an only child, longed for the excitement of Southend, a place we only went to in the Autumn to see the lights. Eventually we forsook Thorpe Bay for St. Mary’s Bay, Romney Marsh – equally quiet!

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/28/a-walk-from-shoeburyness-to-chalkwell-i/#comment-1617155 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:16:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200623#comment-1617155 Yes, the sea! I have gained my own special impressions in various places in Great Britain. For example: in the channel to Dover (Kent), in Lyme Regis (Dorset), in Ventnor (Isle of Wight), in Colwyn Bay (North Wales), in Torquay and Dartmouth (Devon) and finally also at John O’Groats (Caithness).

My earliest experience of the sea, however, was disappointing: when I came to Cuxhaven (German North Sea coast) as a child, the sea had ‘disappeared’ — it was low tide!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Joan Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/28/a-walk-from-shoeburyness-to-chalkwell-i/#comment-1617138 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:36:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200623#comment-1617138 Wonderful commentary and accompanying photographs. I felt as though I was there myself.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/28/a-walk-from-shoeburyness-to-chalkwell-i/#comment-1617127 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:40:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200623#comment-1617127 An interesting walk, and made me remember growing up in Chelsea during the 1950s, when we always had a Sunday School outing to Southend-on-Sea, with the Rector of Holy Trinity Sloane Square dishing out a half-crown to each of us for spending money – usually spent at the funfair and on a stick of Rock. It seemed like a fortune to me. It WAS a fortune to me. In later years, my mother volunteered through the Church via the Mother’s Union, to help disabled people once a year have a holiday in Westcliff-on-Sea. She made many long term friendship during that time, all of her fellow volunteers opting for the same week annually.

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