Tag Archives: southend

Mar 25

Blatant 

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The hardest bit about being an author is not writing the books or getting them published.  It is getting them out to a wider audience. Hence, I am at Leigh Community Centre today doing a bit of shameless publicity… 

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Feb 28

Cee’s which way photo challenge (week 9)

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This was taken in Southend, and is one of our pedestrian subways.

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Weekly photo challenge: Shine

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Took this photograph with my samsung s6, last Sunday  evening walking through our local park. For more takes on this challenge, click:  Shine

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Aug 11

Weekly photo challenge: Texture

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These images were captured today off Southend Pier. The texture of the day is courtesy of Hurricane  Bertha!   For further takes on this challenge click here

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Jun 22

weekly Photo Challenge: Between

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I took this photo last year as they destroyed the Taylor Centre in Southend.  I wanted to capture the last few moments of an iconic part of  Southend’s architecture. For those of you not from Southend the Taylor Centre was a multi- agency NHS centre, with a vile smelling multi-storey car park underneath. But as […]

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Aug 01

Southend: Death of a building!

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They’re tearing down a building in Southend. It’s quite a big one; it housed the Taylor Centre and other Health Services and underneath there was a car-park. It was not a great building in life, but in death it’s really got something going for it…

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Jul 31

The Secret Of Aldwych Strand: – Where it all started

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Originally posted on The Secret of Aldwych Strand:
These are the shots Lucy was after the day she persuaded her BF Mark to help her with a school history project. Like me, Lucy knew that simply re-hashing the history of the pier would not nail her the A*. After all, everyone knows: It started life…

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Jul 18

Daily Prompt: Transition

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Saturday night – down the seafront at Southend.  It was only an hour earlier that I’d taken the photographs of the sunset on the A12. So as you can see it’s a real transition from day to night! For other takes on this daily prompt: click here Oh I do love to be beside the seaside. […]

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Daily Prompt: Journey

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This is my take on today’s Daily Prompt. They were taken yesterday at Two Tree Island Essex as the tide came in…  For other ideas click here.

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Sunshine and the Seaside – The Ultimate Oxymoron?

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When Sidey posted the challenge of sunshine – I thought it was going to be a tough call – especially since we’ve had such an appalling spring. Hence the title.  As always, I was pleasantly suprised. OH and I took a trip down the seafront at Shoeburyness. Here’s a small collection of our findings, including […]

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