Landmarks & Attractions

Love Southend's favourite pick of Instagrams this month in no particular order: 1 #bankholiday #southend #beach #seaside #greatbritishseaside #superhoops #icecream #original #rossi #qpr #nomnomnom...

What is a twin town? The idea behind town twinning came about after the second world war, to establish friendships between different cultures and mend relationships broken by the war, as well as encouraging...

It can't have been over a month ago that I first saw this pup skateboarding down the high street for the first time. It was a relatively cool evening, and the high street was not particularly busy, but those...

Is Southend-on-Sea a city? In a word, no. Southend-on-Sea is a town and unitary authority with borough status. The county town of Essex, Chelmsford, is currently the only city in Essex, and even Chelmsford...

Nestled just outside of Southend lays the beautiful Roslin Hotel. The hotel offers fine dining and afternoon tea at its restaurant, with wonderful views of the seafront. I took my mother here for our first...

So I have been thinking of what else to do with the millions of shells that I have acquired, that are inexpensive and not time consuming. The aim was to find things that would only take 5 minutes to put...

First of all... Happy Star Wars Day, Southend! I thought I would take the opportunity to wish you all a very happy May the 4th, as the date certainly seems to coincide perfectly with the Southend Film...

Love Southend's favourite pick of Instagrams this month in no particular order: 1 #beach #goodfriday #beachhut #spring #southend #southendonsea #essex #england #igessex #thames...

If you're like me (and everyone else I've asked while trying to compile this list) you've often said to yourself or your friends, "Oh yeah, totally! I'm totally gonna just do that one day". We know we won't....

Light up those shells! So after a wonderfully relaxing bank holiday weekend, and enjoying a quick read in the sun, I decided I should probably try doing something with the scallop shells I acquired. So with...