My Southend Pier Museum vlog is now live!
Southend Pier Museum is quite small and hidden away beneath Southend Pier, but it's certainly worth an hour of your time. Here you can venture into an original 1949 pier train, find out what it's like in the driver's seat and operate a signal box. There is also lots of historical memorabilia on display.
Southend Pier is the world's longest pleasure pier, reaching 1.33 miles out into the Thames Estuary. It's a Grade II listed building, and began life in 1829, as a wooden pier, which was replaced by an iron version in 1889. English poet Sir John Betjeman said, "The pier is Southend, Southend is the pier." One of the old pier trains was named after him, and one of the new trains after murdered MP Sir David Amess.
Come and take a look at some of the history, as the pier has been ravaged by fire four times and hit by a ship twice! There are also more cheerful aspects; such as pier amusements to play with and an end of pier hut to take your selfie in.
As you know, I will always be a writer before anything else, and I have blogged about Southend Pier Museum before, link:-
This museum also features as part of a previous YouTube photo montage vlog- this fun vlog contains photos of the unusual side to Southend-on-Sea, as I take you to Never Never Land, a Wunderkammer, and also through Southend Cliff Gardens, as well as strolling down the world's longest pier, link:-
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