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Preserved Bus at Eastwood Boulevard
Taken in April 1973, this photo shows 55 (EHO 228) a 1942 Guy Arab II with Reading 56-seater bodywork built in 1955 in Eastwood Boulevard on a tour of Southend-on-Sea's former trolleybus system. This location was worked by routes 28A/B which went via London Road, Nelson Road and Fairfax Drive until the closure of the trolleybus system on the 28th October 1954. This vehicle was owned by Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co.Ltd) but is now preserved. The buildings behind the vehicle have since been demolished.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 15 Apr 1973
0.10 miles
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Building site, corner of Manchester Drive and Eastwood Boulevard
Redevelopment of a commercial site that once was a large laundry.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
0.11 miles
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Clatterfield Gardens, Westcliff-on-Sea
Clatterfield Gardens dates from the mid-1930s when the area north of Fairfax Drive began to be developed.
Image: © David Kemp
Taken: 11 Sep 2016
0.11 miles
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Eastwood Boulevard Post Office
The block, apparently called The Corner House, also has a hairdressers and picture framers. The last has an extraordinary trading name: 'The Pouch of Douglas'. This is an internal feature of female anatomy between the rectum and the uterus - why that name?
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
0.11 miles
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Westcliff High School for Boys
One of three senior schools within a few hundred metres of each other in this square.
Image: © John Myers
Taken: 8 Apr 2008
0.12 miles
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Building site, Nelson Road
Redevelopment of a commercial site that once was a large laundry.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
0.13 miles
7
Kenilworth Gardens
An attractive stretch of suburban dual-carriageway.
Image: © Trevor Harris
Taken: 2 Oct 2009
0.14 miles
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Building site, Nelson Road
Redevelopment of a commercial site that once was a large laundry.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
0.15 miles
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The Albany Laundry
Although repainted, this laundry has been in operation for at least 45 years, exuding the smell of hot detergent into the local atmosphere.
Image: © Bob Bowyer
Taken: Unknown
0.15 miles
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St. Thomas More High School
A Roman Catholic school, as one might guess.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 28 Feb 2016
0.17 miles