Southend on Sea A Live Music Town
Around the late 1800's the area that is now Southend on sea was two main villages: Prittlewell which is famous for its Priory and Leigh-on-Sea, a mile or so along the coast, famous for its cockles and seafood, now called Old Leigh. The town coat of arms for Southend contains the monk and fisherman from monks of the Prittlewell Priory and the fishermen of Leigh-on-Sea. Southend was built up as the south end of Prittlewell and expanded into a large resort with its most famous landmark of all Southend Pier. Southend's heyday was in the 1950's and 60's when day trippers from the east-end of London would come down on the train to spend the day at the famous Kursaal Amusement park and play the fruit machines in the seafront arcades. Today, Southend is trying hard to bring itself kicking and screaming into the 21st century with the University of Essex, having an impressive new campus building directly adjacent to Southend Central Railway Station. It has more live music venues than the whole of the rest of essex put together so there lots of distractions for students who like live concerts and gigs.
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