Leigh-on-Sea has been around since Domesday times and it’s my hometown. It’s started off as a fishing and boatbuilding town but when the railyway to London was built in 1851 it became a commuter town. These days it’s all bad hair salons, trashy clothes at high prices, gastro-bars and lots of cocaine. If you can ignore all that rubbish, it’s a great place for maritime history with stories about the towns seafarers from the Mayflower to the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk.

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