Downstream

of the summer season. ‘It was
pure joy,’ remembers one
visitor, ‘it was freedom, it
was a day out, it was our
Southend. It was something
you looked forward to.’
‘As a kid I was taken to
Tower Beach a lot,’ says Ron
Osborne, ‘as it was near to
Mile End where we lived,
having moved from a
rundown tenement flat in
Shadwell to a proper house in
Mile End to avoid the