The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Southend, Essex*

Southend, Essex Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• roots hall
• farringdona
• SEEC College!
• the houses down eastwood rd.
• The pier, before it was burnt down.
• 36 York Road - Cracking house. The Eifel Tower, but it's not here it in Paris although you can buy a picture here
• Any building NOT in Southend.
• Civic Centre
• The new college/Uni looks like something from space
• the court house cos it bangs up some of the scum
• .......Th Minerva on Thursday nights....when they play music worth dancing to....i mean dancing sexualy to! wink wink!
• the new college by southend central station
• New toilet block outside Churchills, council spent thousands on this tourist attraction!!
• MC Donalds
• Keddies
• quantock flats- classic example of 60's style. excellent views and well known hot spot for jumpers. St Mary's church , prittlewell
• The one that is being built next to Southend central train station. For those of you that dont know, its going to be the new centre for South East Essex college and if you've seen the plans you will know that wen it is finished next year it will look absolutely pukka! a futuristic glass look.
• Southend High School for Boys - a few years there will install some discipline in you!
• Keymed house down stock-road, okay...its next to a sewage treatment works, but that building is s e x y....
• the one with the windows
• The kursaal, its so purty!
• Roots Hall
• Yeah right its a paradise of arigtictule delight. Oh wait Roots Hall ha ha !
• the car park in Vic plaza - had many a good time up there with a previous boyf (wink wink nudge nudge)
• Oh yeah, york road.
• farrindon car park
• St. Mary's Church. You know the big one opposite Priory Park
• the bridge
• kids kingdom is pretty cool but i'm to old for it now
• Favorite building is TOTS. People think this is an acronym of Talk of the South - but it is really an acronym for Take One To Sh*g, as afficionados will already know. The Penny farthing was a bicycle ride, or a ride at least, the Zero 6, that was named after Southend Uniteds home scores. Another favorite building was Ray Chidleys House, but thats another story
• Civic centre for the steps and waxable walls.
• You gotta love THE PALACE HOTEL!...HAHAHAHAHAhahaha...ha..ha...ha....hmmm...erm...
• Southend Pier what a beautiful structure until someone tried to burn it down
• hadleigh castle
• The Elms pub has great arcitecture. It kinda sways and stuff when you've had a good night drinking in it!
• kursaal
• The pier, which catchess fire every few years for hte publics and tourists enjoyment. Also happens to be the longest amusent pier in the World which can't be too bad
• Got to be the Kursaal!
• Southend Pier Museum Foundation. For readers at home or overseas interested in saving as much of the old character of Southend as possible, I would like to mention that one can become a member by contacting Mike Davies, Treasurer, 18 Dene Gardens, Rayleigh SS6 9LJ, Essex. Phone 01268 785657 (from U.S. 011 44 1268 785657). Current subscriptions are two pounds sterling for adults and one pound for juniors (under 16). There is a current appeal for five hundred pounds to help extend the museum. Due to cost constraints, the Foundation has no e-mail or fax. Some hard working and dedicated local folk literally saved a piece of Southend (world?) history from extinction. Their work has been a labour of love and includes the preservation of the Pier and its surrounds; the restoration of the old Pier Trains; the running of the Pier Museum (located at the Pier entrance) and a myriad of other related matters. My name is Bruce Davis, formerly from Southend. I am a Foundation member now living in Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
• There is no such beastie.

Demolish It Now Building

• Victoria Plaza, jeesus get rid of it it's mank. Or build a better one!
• that damn bench in grunger lane(the highstreet)
• the kebab down bridgewater.
• Anywhere in Westcliff
• The new college - the black skate shop
• All of them, whilst full of the chavs preferably.
• South East Essex College
• Southend Civic Centre maybe. Or Victoria Plaza!
• The old Odeon.
• the 4 tower blocks that sit on queens way full of scum, blow all of them up at mid day when most of them unemployed lazy bastards are still in bed relaxying after a night out demolishimg the best bits of southend
• .....JD SPORTS!!, i swear it clones Rude boy's in there!..or was that the bins....why for the love of god were they selling caps in winter? *looks at sports clothing* *puts on voice of high pitched rude boy* Oh my god designer sports wear I must buy it to match with my brain, compleately pointles and made of 100% polyester *stupid grin*......ha...ha....ha... -_- whatever!
• ego
• southend high school
• Orient Express on seafront
• Hamlet Court Zoo
• The new development that's being built on Pier Hill, Fucking hell what a mess!!!!
• The Royals should be burnt to the ground
• even moore pointless
• The Tax office, followed by the Customs & Excise office
• the Royals- what a big mistake
• The new Royal Wank of Snotland, building going up on a GREENFIELD SITE, next to strawberry fields! burn it...
• the one with the door that opposite the brick one
• That place where you can get a pint for a quid!!! Ugh, is that still there? I went in there once and it was HORRIFIC, it was the kind of place where you really HAD to avoid eye contact - or face fatal consequences.
• Palace hotel, blow the bastard up or seriously clear out and restore
• Roots Hall stadium.
• The fashion factory! gold center! KILL EM ALL!
• Roots HAll , then we can have a new Stadium (we we're in the 1st Div once honest !)
• Crown College - It need blowing up and re-building and needs a good manager (so i've heard!)
• the royals. get rid of it and build a brand new center there !!!
• st bernards in southend its a all girls school i went there oh n all the teachers inside of course
• dumb millenium clock thats always wrong.....and is now one handed (hehe)
• The Police station in Rayleigh... or maybe just any club in Southend that plays garage.... (that'd be all the Seafront ones then!)
• Vic's Circus shopping centre. It's really depressing as half the shops are closed in it.
• victoria plaza/ all of southend circa 1950s on wards!!!!!!
• Victoria Avenue...Build some big 200 story skyscrapers there! That would look better! Kill the college (SEEC), Destroy the High street and Victoria Plaza and start again. Destroy the football stadium and start again. Destroy the seafront and pier and Peter Pans....and start again. Destroy Shoebury, but dont start again there please!
• THE COUCIL ESTATES WHICH HOLDS ALL THE "RUDEBOYS" AND ALL THE "DIRTY GRUNGERS" AND "GOTHICS", IT SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED WITH THEM ALL IN IT.
• THE ARCADES DOWN THE SEAFRONT AND ALL THE TACKY CRAP DOWN THERE ASWELL
• Not a building - that milleniium clock thing
• the famous fashion factory, next to virgin its a right shitter
• Just flatten the whole of Southend and start again.
• The Kursaal estate!!!!
• TOT's and all the other poor excuses for clubs in Southend.
• THE MILLENNIUM CLOCK! -Its a bloody disgrace and up a year too late.
• The MILLENIUM CLOCK. what a piece of sh*t
• Bar Central. Although, sadly, removing this would increase Southend's rough-sleeper count between the hours of 9pm and 2am. Instead, encouraging the use of deadly force in the 'mosh-pit' may reduce the grunger population. This would immediately improve the town's hygiene.
• southend high school for boys , put it somewhere else thats prittewells territory
• Burger king, so that people would have to find somewhere else to hang around, haha.
• Get rid of Bar Central..now...please. Its not big, its not clever, and it definately does not need to be there.
• The Demon Internet Plebs building (glasgow tccs massif #1)
• Its time Southend got rid of THE PALACE HOTEL!...HAHAHAHAHhahahaha...ha...ha
• ANY McDONALDS OR BURGER KING in that order!
• the new cinema. bring back the little field where everyone used to chill out and eat sandwiches
• Victoria cirus. Knock it down and re-build it so it isn't a wind tunnel anymore!
• Just about everything down Victoria Avenue.
• I second the Cliff Pub!!
• Victoria Plaza - all of it, except Virgin Megastores. And the pier as well.
• SEEVIC college oh its piss poor......
• Shaftesbury Hotel in Cambridge Road, also with all the weirdos in it ! Wether its the one who raids your bins, sleeps on your doorstep, the Irish one who shouts obscene language whilst sipping his 69p bottles of White Lightning Cider at midnight or even the dreaded cigarette pilferer who. using teo thin wooden sticks, picks the butts of cigarettes out of the drains in the High Street and smokes the last few millimetre ! This madness has to end !
• Focus Youth House. Closed to the "youf" more often than not because they keep trashing the place, or vandalising the cars parked nearby. It also pretends to be a theatre which it is not.
• Shoebury high school - a bigger group of wasters I've yet to have the displeasure of meeting
• Royals Shopping Center
• TOTS 2000 is a great candidate for this category - these days people buy their fresh bovine from the supermarket, rather than at the local cattle market that TOTS poses as. It might be an idea to issue a best before date stamp on people's hands as they part with hard earned giro cheque to get into TOTS, in exchange for the latest mutation of various sexually transmitted diseases, which incidentally I have not had, nor passed on to anybody else. Not only does TOTS hold the reputation of being a slag market, but they also play the worst kind of music (well, that's what some people call it) it the whole country. If you want a really steaming good night out, try THE END, WEST CENTRAL STREET, LONDON (near the Astoria and the CENTREPOINT building). Another building that can die is the Benefits Agency (Social Security) office on Victoria Avenue. This has got to be the home of many a crisis - some instigated by the employees of this scum ridden rat hole, and the birth place of several thousand new criminally insane people every year. You see, if they don't get to you by making you sit in that stinking, sweaty, sh*thole for six hours, they get you by telling you that your claim is invalid and they are going to stop your benefits immediately. So KNOCK IT DOWN and take all the piss stinking gypsies that use it as a hostel with it.
• LTS rail HQ at central station. The biggest bunch of wankers that ever were.
• Palace bingo hall.
• The whole of the sea-front....oh bugger demolish Southend and start again...its the only way.(well have you ever been there?)
• South East Essex College!!
• Get to the end of the pier and turn to look at the seafront on your right is the most hiddious 60s grey building you could ever see
• The Civic Centre in Victoria Avenue, preferrably when the council is in full session - a bigger bunch of wasteless tossers I have yet to come across.

The Best Things

• sunshine, seaside, sand, jungle, SOUTHEND UNITED SUFC
• The best night I've had out in ages in Southend is the comedy club at Seymours. Lee Hurst, (that bloke from They Think Its All Over) is hostin it at the mo and its great. I'll be down there on the 26th, so should everyone else.....GET IN!!!!!
• Churchill Gardens was good, now it's a little boring, theres a funny rope swing though to watch people fall from. Also try Priory Park and jump the river gap, make sure someone falls in though otherwise it isn't worth doing it... Goto where Never Never Land used to be and buy some nuts, squirrels there are super tame.
• gotta be the seafront wit da buff rudeboys, arcades and rides!
• in life are free
• There are none, it's a dump from one end to the other. Just nuke it all from space!
• ALL SOUTHEND IS FULL OF LIL DIRTY SLAPPERS WHO NEED 2 GET A FUCKIN LIFE, TALKIN ABOUT RUDEBOYZ N HOW DEY JAM ON D BENCH,,,, IF U WANA SEE RUDEBOYZ U GOTA CUM 2 SOUTH EAST LONDON BERMONDSEY WHERE ITS FULL OF PROPER RUDEBOYZ NOT UR LIL DICKHEADZ IN SOUFEND, WE ACTUALLY JAM IN RUN DOWN FACTORYS AND PUMPHOUSES WITH DECKS AND THE MUSIC IS PUMPIN GARAGE 24 7 AND THE FACTORYS R FULL OF RUSEBOIZ N RUDEGYALS WHO START FIGHTS WIV D ODD LIL SLAPPER DATS NOT FROM D ENDZ N YES I AM ONE OF DEM RUDEGYALS N YES SOUFEND IS A SHIT HOLE HAHAHAHA BLOOP BLOOP
• Pizza Man, Dirty girls
• Nobby`s the bakers corner of Sutton road and Coleman street, the best Eccles cakes ive ever had, shame ya dont get a frendly smile from the staff tho!!!
• New Rock Boots - great for smashing your opponents in the face, aand if they have spikes you can always lodge them where a rudeboy's bollox 'should' be, however due to genetic experiments most rudeboy's dont have bollox.
• Having lived in Southend for 19 years and being forced to move to Suffolk I would like to point out that Southend/Essex has the best drivers in the world. You would not believe the idiots on the road out here in Suffolk. Roundabout rules are ignored, they change lanes without warning (my red dot essex brakes have saved my life, i kid you not) and if there are roads that cars don't frequent, drivers don't bother checking for traffic and pull out! They are idiots here, and don't get me started on the customer service (diabolical. I'd fire them all) Southend has far more shops, places of interest than you lot think. Appreciate it while you can, because now i'm gone I certainly miss it.
• Staying at home
• Al's late night snacks at a local top hotel "The Erlsmere" and good Stella on draught!!
• That there are a lot of open minded people in Southend and that there is a gay pub and that there are a lot of cool down to earth people that hang out in there. After all, everyone is human and as long as everyone is happy...who cares!!!
• RAGE - the best club night in essex no question
• you have to go to clarence bar in the main high street, its pretty cool any thankfully most of the scummers of southend do not go there. Bellinis is ok in leigh on sea but most people in there are stuck up and you could catch a suntan from the abundant sun bed king and queens in there - the uv rays are flying all around
• That digital billboard stuck to the Plaza which is now gone
• my knickers
• Being near the sea
• If you want the best natural & organic skincare products don't go to Bodyshop in the High Street. There's a new place called Beauty Warehouse in Leigh, Broadway. They do loads of stuff there, and the guy who serves in there is so friendly!
• RAGE night...the best metal in essex
• The smell of onions frying from the burger stalls as you walk down pier hill.
• skate spots
• the cinema the library and there sheer volume of pubs and clubs. there are some really good shops tucked away in places.
• Summer evening down on the beach. Cold winter mornings along the Front.
• Watching some rude grin at you like a mug and thinking 'what a loser.'
• Cruisin' in my cowhide rover. Odeon Southend. New A13 to Chelmsford 2-tree island. Pure-Carma. stawberry flavour Ribena
• The slags!
• SOUHTEND IS FANTASTIC
• parks, beach, town on a saturday and its home....if youve leaved here as long as I have...been away and craved to come back....not sure what the attraction is but I can always think of places that I like more than hate.
• The best things about southend is the beaches i would reccomend east beach in shoeburyness as it has lovely sand and also has a field where you can play a game of rounders or football and have a nice family picnic. Another great thing about southend is the arcades the big arcade place is called the kursaal it has a place to bowl a pub and lots of fruit machines to blow your money on. Dont forget the famous dance machine which all the teenagers cant get enough of. A great place to spend the day is peter pans playground also known as adventure island which is a theme park full of different kind of rides just dont forget to bring a change of clothes cause you do get quite wet on the water rides.
• RUDE BOYS
• seafront in westcliff/leigh.
• "rudeboyZ"
• Southend United, can't think of much else.
• fags 'n' mags, essex provs, oh yeah, virgin, mc.donalds,burgering (can u guess i hang about down town?) all the ppl who dnt judge ya and like u for being u and have a laugh with ya m8s.
• SUFC ! Argos , Woolies hmm ok im struggling....
• Ummmmmm can i think about that one some more??? xx Loobie
• the back streets
• nite clubs that play good music the pink toothbrush rayleigh is the bollocks
• THe Micro-climate and the sunsets over the grimy London sky.
• It's one of the better provicial towns in England (but that ain't saying much)
• The best thing is I am now living in Timaru!
• ice cream, candy floss n the helter skelter
• COCO CUBA!!
• X-ISLE X-ISLE X-ISLE THE ALEX
• Its SOuthend!
• fights, drunkards, the tramp in woolworths, subway
• The bench outside BT Cellnet
• Its near to London, so I can escape this shithole to the bright lights in next to no time.
• The best thing about Southend is its remoteness. It means I can never be bothered to go there.
• The best things are everything, I used to live there but for some strange and unknown reason I moved to Scotland, its true what they say about ou dont know what you've got till its gone, I would love to move back to Southend, the atmosphere is excellent, everyones up for a laugh, plenty of pubs, clubs and interesting people. Some of you out there were giving the bikers with their long hair, piercings, tattoos and leathers a right slateing, I would like to say, did you ever actually talk to them? I used to work in Jenny's restaurant on the seafront when I was 13-15 and they used to come in big groups and they were the nicest people I ever served in there! I also had a tattoo and a piercing done in a place on the seafront and the people who done them(guys covered in tattoos and piercings and looking quite scary) were so friendly and the place was clean and hygenic I wouldnt have it done anywhere else!
• laughing at the baby goffs that inhabit the now defunct doomcookie bench
• its home!
• Watching people play in the Thames estuary right next to the sewage pipes.
• TOTS, the crap football team, and last but not least the essex girl.
• Sitting on the beach at 2am in the middle of summer. Alone (or maybe not!!)
• Lots of skaters, seafront is fun at night, lots of clubs and pubs.
• I don't live there anymore! Southend pier is entered in the guiness book of records, and all you Tory,Hague loving arse holes should spend some brass and get the pier back as it was, with arcades on the end,and while youre at it make it safe for the fishermen(if any one is allowed up there still), Don't let this institution rust and fall away by the wayside, the pier is Southend, spend money on it and you will reap the rewards later.
• Saks underground - A New Breed, Smoke, The Blue Meenie and any reggae dances that go on there. Bakers Bar can be good... Jah Shaka and ABA-SHANTI-I, who comes down every so often, not so much recently though. Im sure we're all missing them greatly...# I would say sunrooms, but I've grown up to relise how pretentious and scummy the place is!..and the beer isnt all that either! - Chesca
• All of it especially the pier and Thorpe Bay Southend air show is popular
• Southend has a reputation which is undeserved. at the same time this reputation saves it from the fate of twee Brighton, Up the Republic of South Essex!
• the cliffs in summer, priory park, the air show, the pink toothbrush, the arcades, westcliff beach
• Drink and the fact that no matter where I go I see someone I know!
• The variety of pubs.
• The best place is Route 66, excellent pool club. Music, television and the staff are mostly female and friendly. I have to say this as the manager bought me a couple of drinks for my birthday over the weekend. No seriously, real good venue.
• knowing that there are alot of cool people out there who don't think Ben Sherman and white Reebock classics are a good fashion statement however they're hard to come by if you're not a Saks regular
• Walking down the High Street and knowing everyone
• THE SHARON - For obvious rea sons
• The way you can walk down the High Street at 2oclock in the morning and get off with almost any bloke coz they are all so desperate and you are too drunk to care!!
• The girls.
• Leaving, and then coming back.
• Getting on a train at Chalkwell station, which is right on the sea-front, on a summer morning when the tide is in and the sun glints of the water. The best start to a commute to London.
• The Roots rock reggae scene People have forgotten that the 70's was 20 years ago and play stomping heavy reggae at local dances- check flyers & posters. The town has two reggae record shops (more than some mall cities): Bassment Nr Sun Rooms & Black Art (York Rd Mkt) Oh yeah, the local lads mostly fancy themselves as sound boys, so don't expect to find anything other than vinyl! Mark f
• Bieng close enough to London to escape it. Being able to forbid your children to live there when they're older. Not being as bad as Canvy Island The largest free air show in Europe every May bank holiday The very strong scouting movement
• Southend is the best thing
• Er..... Almost everything.e.g. fights,action,dodgy deals (no comment)
• Southend really isn't that bad when you take a look at Basildon and Canvey Island!! If people don't like it then move!! We've got TOTS - yes I am in support for it, no I don't work there and i'm not mad. It just happens to be a laugh when your with your mates!!
• Sun, women and the choice of pubs
• Great Wakering-A great, peaceful villiage with lots of decent pubs all close together, and you can get hammered and know if you knock someones pint over they wont knock you out.
• relaxed drinking atmosphere (only narrow ninded losers feel unsafe in southend)

The Worst Things

• THE BENCH YEEEAAAAA
• The train fare home, err, the peir that is always being set alight (looks cool though). Also the 100+ Security Cameras on the high street!
• the little space between the odeon and whsmith. its where the tossers hang out
• Rudeboys, on the seafront down the high street, everywhere there starting to take over.
• being skint and getting hurt
• The chavs, which is pretty much everyone there.
• Ian Huntley and the shoeburyness area
• Too many chavs. Too many cruisers in their 1 litre Corsa's that have more wings than a box of panty-liners.
• Coop in Sutton road, its dirty, tatty and the staff have no iaed and are really slow, it sells a lot of crap who wants to buy a washing machine srom a shop like that, the leaflets are always all over the floor and there isnt ever enough tills open, im surprised how so many people use it, for them to need more than 1 till open, probably all the scum from the tower blocks near by. Finbars chippy in sutton road is dirty and slow service
• Backward homophobic inbreds that will never acheive the level of intellect to ever leave the little town.
• Rude boy's and girl's who try and sould clever and sarcastic.....*sniggers*.....trying desperatly to use their......brain cell! *bursts into hysterical laughter*
• The worst thing about Southend is not being able to appreciate it while you're there. And the litter. And speedcameras. And traffic wardens. In fact, Southend Council - do something. Southend has the potential to be the best town in East Anglia and you lot wasting money on traffic lights/ cameras/ crossings does not help.
• going out
• My friend is a senior social worker in Essex and she has advised me that Southend on Sea has the largest amount of paedophiles of any Essex town, scary
• Seymours nightclub, The Scum (Sorry sun) Rooms, Kyber Pass Indian, Shoebury Women, Orient Express, Southend Pier & the sightseeing bus
• coons
• The reputation left by the BBC's document "Towerblock Dreams". It showed the now spreading council scum (if you watched it you'll understand where i'm coming from)and the sad state of Pirate Radio gone horribly WRONG (Y2K), R.I.P Premier
• Constant block paving down the high street
• Being near scum
• RUDE BOYS RUIN ALL FUN AND COUSE PUBLICK HAVOK
• quite a few of the people. the fact that lots of benches have been taken out, so u cant even sit down. grr. um, maybe the polluted crappy beach that everyone wees in.
• Trendies all over the place, but what do you expect? Talk. Chameleon, etc. Its a shame trendies exist - its a blatent abuse of freedom of choice and speach.
• TOTS! How can anyone enjoy that bloody place!
• Well it would be nice if the council actually listened to what people wanted! Why is Southend council still looking backward to how the Kursaal used to be when other resorts are looking forward to the future and how to get business into their areas !? Also, if the council want to kerb the cruisers why not build an area when cruisers are away from the residential area but can also cruise about and show off their cars?! There is alsways a solution but I doubt that the council even care - its more likely they just want to keep the youth repressed and keep the older residents happy with more enforced laws and checks. I recently read an article from some silly old fart who is well out of touch with current lifestyle of youth. He waffled on about cruisers having discos in their cars and the age old "dangerous driving" chesnut. How old and pityful he is and how sad that rather than make useful suggestions on how to aid this situation he just jumps on the "down with cruisers" band wagon constatnly writing into the local papers where he is supported by yet more old farts on youth-hate crusade - well listen up old man - we are young - you are not - you would do well to remember that we have more energy and time and well just about everything you havent! Leave us to cruise!
• Having to watch your back 24/7 because some people are dicks
• Rudeboys, with their fucking caps and speech impediments. Oh the hatered.
• If you don't like the seafront or the boy-racers who go there then don't go to the seafront. Simple. Although, will all the scabby wannabe wangster rudeboys please, please go away? Everybody dislikes them, everybody complains but nobody does anything about them. Any ideas? Do they all come down from London on the rob? Why are they sponsored by Argos? What's with the shit tracksuits? The open jawed, knuckle dragging walk? 'Rudeboys' OUT! NOW!
• Getting pulled over by the police for cruisin' in my cow-hide rover. Palace Theatre. Speed Cameras on every road. Canvey Island. Race-tech. Diet Coke
• The STD's the slags have
• The Seafront is GROTESQUE. It is a real scene of everything bad about life. Not been down there for years. It's garish, flashing, neon horror-lights casts a sickly sheen on the straggling great unwashed at midnight. The warm, fetid smell of excrement and hitherto un-named venereal disease wafts on the air. It is total carnage. The hot stench of death and imminent humiliation is all around. Watch out for under-evolved cretins like Si' going down to the Seafront to mate with ghastly yo-yo knickered slappers who come down to this hideous hotspot on coachtrips to get som action in the back section, so to speak. ROTTEN! That is the worst thing about Southend, I think.
• Clubs, 14 year old mums in the buggy brigade (v.sad), wide boys, lack of government support, live bands.
• the worst things in southend is all the druggys around which can get frightning. Another bad thing about Southend is when you done it once you have done it a million times.
• GRUNGERS
• tring to earn a decent living legally.
• grungers
• Rude boy idiots down the seafront, all the fat Premiershi* fans who should support their local club
• the blokes, mingers or wankers- u only have a choice of the two :(
• ppl who do judge ya and piss u off
• Ok concreate the lot come to Rochford its a Market Town you know historic greener much nicer !
• It is a rudey infested shite hole
• The whole town. It's a s**t hole. 95% of the population are low-life scum trailer trash, people the rest of London doesn't want. I'm counting the days until I can get out. Don't, for your own sake, think of moving here, unless you count yourself amongst the formerly mentioned.
• grungers labelling themselfs as grungers. they r people like n e one else so y do they think they special?
• Southend achieving its yearly "Blue Flag" clean beach status, try taking a walk along the foreshore at low tide & marvel at just how the inspectorate remarkably manage to overlook the obvious untreated crap & other sewage that each tide brings.
• TRENDIES AND SUM OF THE CRAP CLOTHES THEY WHERE
• The asylum seekers!! I'm amazed no one has mentioned them. They talk too loud have no manners speak little or no English and generally dis-respect their hosts. An ever growing and largely unwanted population that is ruining the town. Designer wear and mobile phone courtesy of the government while some of us have to work for a living. Nuff said :-(
• Worst thing in Southend these days is the people im afraid to say. Alot of people in the town are very rude & southend seafront is not the place to take kids after 6.30pm Friday & Saturday nights due to the loutish & scary behaviour of those that ruin it for others. Not everyone in Southend is bad but its hard to find the good ones. But there is often alot of police around lucky enough to stop drunks & vandels. The Police work hard in Southend.
• There does not sem to be a singles club/meeting place for the people over 35 in southend on sea. I am a shy person so meeting people in pubs for me is out, if anyone knows any information regarding this issue please contact me. thank you.
• CLubs at SOuthend that play garage and the extent of trendies!
• Slip on shoes, Moshino clothes and the way that pretty much everyone there are seemingly terrified of having their own identity.
• pigeons, doom cookies n 12 yr old skaters
• Mums and Dads who scream swear words at their kids in the high street. Why are these kids always called Britney, Chelsea or Jordan?
• Southend!!!
• MOST OF SOUTHEND SEAFRONT
• Its SOuthend!
• the bench and anything within a 50 metre radius excluding virgin and mcdonalds.
• The bench outside WHSMITH
• It's generally a pretty dire place. The alternative scene is attrocious. I hate the conformers to Nu metal which is just pop music with a chunky guitar riff...well whatever makes the kiddies happy. Hate all the "garys", thats the trendies and their lycra clad girlfriends. It's beyond a joke that essex has it's own brand of tack....bottling people is also not very clever.
• The bog-ugly Cockney scum infesting the streets and pubs.
• Small minded arrogant arseholes who visit once and slag it off! I think you'd be better off booking yourself into a residential home for the elderly for a week! Also someone said dont make eye contact with guys who shave their heads - my brother shaves his head and he's the nicest person your ever likely to meet! I know lots of people like that and your WRONG!!!!! maybe if you actually tried talking to them instead of judging them on their appearance you might find that out for yourself!
• The stupid frickin "rudeboys" who think they're all that and more. They need a good slappin....or perhaps they should all be stripped down and thrown into a gas chamber (no offense to jews) YOU DISGUST ME WITH YOUR TROUSERS TUCKED INTO YOUR SOCKS AND YOUR SHITTY ATTITUDES. suprisingly i am a trendy gurl, and i think u should all be shot, this town would be a much peaceful place without u wankers. you make me want to physically throw up. SORT IT OUT. The average "rudeboy" could never pull a decent chick (like me) cos your so lame, and you know u could never pull a decent bird. its pathetic how u sit in your crappy little cars along the shitty seafront with your garage crap blarin'.
• The stupid frickin trendies and "rudeboys" who think they're all that and more!!!!! They deserve to b slapped some, sure enough they'll run off cryin! HA! They fuckin do my head in....and uhhh don't diss the alternative people in southend, cos your worse and u dont seem to see it..you are the TRUE FREAKS.
• baby goffs that inhabit the doom cookie bench stoopi
• living here!
• it sucx
• RACIST,FASCIST,NAZI C**TS
• Tots, the crap football team and the essex girl.
• The dickhead nova drivers along the seafront every weekend with their 100 quid souped up cars (must included rear spoiler, 2 12" subs in the boot, lowered suspension, oh and don't forget the fluffy dice in the window)
• Grungers, Goths, Metallers and other dirty, confused, hypocritical, pubescent types
• the millenium clock it cost £50,000 and it's a big ugly metal thing that takes up room and does jack shit !
• No skatepark anywhere close, no hip-hop shop or cheap record shops.
• Some of the indiginous population act like the missing link, to many crap pubs and the seafront is a bit tacky still the tourists like it.
• having to take a 20 minute taxi ride to a decent club, southend united taking such a nose dive, the demise of southend pier, victoria circus - need i say more?
• Piss-heads who Come down from London for the day who think they can start a fight with everyone. Canvey Island being too close
• Boy posers.
• not being able to see any good indepenednt films 'cause they're put on, on a Monday afternoon, and about then I'm in double science.
• The smell that Canvey sends to us
• A Description Of the Terry - Skinhead or french Crop - double earing - greasy spotty face - purple/lime YSL or Ralph Shirt - Argos gold jewlrey - dads old suit trousres - terry two stripe socks - kickers or classics - 12 year old girlfriend
• The worst things about Southend are the sad teenage girls that walk around in Adidas tracksuits and insist that the best thing to do on a Friday night is to go daan the sea front to pull a bloke in an xr3i with blacked out windows.
• The crap on the floor.
• The litter is everywhere ! You can't walk down the High Street without slipping on someone's Burger Bap and even if you do manage to avoid the selection of untasty morsels which litter the floor, the pigeons which seem to have an aggression which would rival Liam Gallagher's manage to leave I nice trail of white stuff running down your back !
• Southend United, a total embarasment. The whateveritis and Firkin, a clone of every other Firkin pub in the country only worse! The way the council has allowed the pier to decay. Commuting from Chalkwell station in the middle of winter when a gale is howling off the sea and the b*stards have cancelled your train.
• Southend girls school being 3 miles away from the boys school Southend boys school being in the middle of nowhere land even though its in the middle of Southend
• Tourists
• the fighting crew
• Grungers,gothics,skateboarders,punks,house and garage lover-boys.
• tots,cruisers, and the areas love of Rnb, soul, and house music
• people from canvey island & basildon who invade every weekend

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Last updated: 2007-09-19