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Rochford Road, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6TN

This construction will be a hotel at Southend Airport.

This is the south frontage of the hotel facing Eastwoodbury Crescent. The hotel opened in October 2012 in the wake of the massive expansion of Southend Airport in recent years. For a picture of the hotel under construction see Image

This is the north-east frontage of the hotel facing the roundabout. The hotel opened in October 2012 in the wake of the massive expansion of Southend Airport in recent years. For a picture of the hotel under construction see Image

This is part of the Air Traffic Control Tower at Southend Airport. from this vantage point you are looking at least two grid squares. The most immediate being Image and Image There are 10 Air Traffic Control Officers, four Air Traffic Control Assistants and a dedicated Air Traffic Control Engineering department.

This is the Air Traffic Control building and the apron at “London” Southend Airport framed under the tail of a rather bedraggled BAE146 that has been waiting for a buyer since at least 2003. You can get some better views of the aircraft at http://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/B-632L . Southend Airport began life as a fighter field in WW1 to counter the bomber raids that were occurring in the latter end of the war. The airfield closed in the 1920’s but became the Southend’s municipal airport in the 1930’s. It was requisitioned in 1939 as RAF Rochford a satellite of RAF Hornchurch. Civilian flying began again in 1947. In the 1960s Carvair air car ferries operated from here http://aviationtraderscarvair.com/ famously carrying James Bond's Aston Martin to Switzerland in “Goldfinger”. To go to the next field in an alphabetical tour of Essex WW2 airfields click on Image Much information was gleaned from Graham Smith’s book “Essex Airfields In The Second World War”. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Essex_Airfields_in_the_Second_World_War.html?id=u3atAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Control Tower overlooking the Airport, at Southend-on-Sea

The retail park along with the Holiday Inn opposite came in the wake of the massive expansion of Southend Airport from around the beginning of the second decade of the century.

Train rushing towards Southend at Warners Bridge.

1930's Shopping Arcade, with Flats.

This is the Apron at Southend Airport. Dragon Rapide DH89A preparing for pleasure flights. Behind in grid Image is the fuel pumps. The chimney of Rochford Hospital can be seen, middle right.