EPW036727 ENGLAND (1931). The Eastern Esplanade Bathing Pool, housing surrounding Chelsea Avenue and Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea, 1931

The first parade of shops built for the new area. Corner of Kensington Road and Woodgrange Drive.

Picture of Club members in their and the clubs first season

Southchurch Park Bowling Club & Pavilion founded in 1931

Huntingdon Road, about where the parents of the singer and actress Eira Heath would have their house in 1939, and post- WW2

Northumberland Crescent all along North edge of Park, from Kensington road to Lifstan Way

By the late 1950's this seawater bathing pool was semi-derelict. There were simply not enough London holidaymakers coming to the town any longer, and coming so far east to the beaches of Thorpe Bay, to make it worthwhile for the Corporation to keep the pool open.

The corner of one of the two Tennis hard courts

2nd Sports Pavilion - in the 1930's this one was a typical clapboard structure of Essex rural construction but with a 1st floor roofed verandah so that spectators could watch in comfort from two levels at the same time

One of two waterfowl "houses" this end of the lake.

Main Sports Pavilion.

Aviary, which included waterfowl

Park Keepers House, with a large Tea Room attached.

Tennis Club, with changing rooms, and grass courts in front of it to the south.

Bowls Club and Green

This shop was a Chemists.

Southchurch Park, which had the hour-glass shaped boating lake, tennis courts, a Tennis Club and the Bowls Club already, as well as the best cricket and football pitches in the area.

Eastern Esplanade

Ambleside Drive, backing onto the LMS Railway Line to Thorpe Bay and Shoeburyness

Brunswick Road

Sandringham Road

Woodgrange Drive

This road will be extended Northwards, named Lifstan Way, and by 1939 will run all the way up past the Railway [location shown by the horizontal line of houses at the top of the image] to join with Southchurch Road.

This is where my parent's House would be built in 1933 - "Memel", 11 Marlborough Road. - where I grew up. And by 1939 this garden suburb development had gone all the way to the RHS of the image, in line with the Eastern edge of the Southchurch Park, a new road which would be named Lifstan Way.