‘CATCH A BEER ON THE PIER!’. After walking for 1.33 miles (2,158 metres) to the end of Grade II listed Southend Pier – the world’s longest – you may feel like tempted to take up the Royal Pavilion’s offer. While the stroll was a bracing, but highly enjoyable […]
The best way to understand why London’s East End docks closed for good in the 1980s comes if you take a 40 minute train journey east from Fenchurch Street. At the Port of Tilbury, piled up one of top of another are vast containers which are awaiting onward […]
By Oliver Clark When I told a friend I was planning a visit to Tilbury Fort over the Christmas holidays the reaction was a bemused ‘where’s Tilbury?!’ Unfortunately if people have heard of the town of Tilbury on the Essex coast at all, it’s probably for the wrong […]
Past In The Present 