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Description: | The collections include material relating to passenger ferry transport, such as steamboat tableware, tickets and timetables, and to the Southend lifeboats including boards recording call outs from 1899 to 1970.;Rolling stock from the Southend pier railway, signalling equipment and ephemera;Seaside souvenirs and ephemera relating to the pier and the foreshore. ;Collection of portraits, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia associated Alderman William Charles Bradley, Southend's 'hero', who rose from smuggler to Pier Master to Alderman.;Photographs and postcards of the pier, steamers and other shipping, disasters, lifeboats, personalities etc.;Ledgers and account books relating to the pier and foreshore, publications of the Pier and Foreshore Department and the RNLI; guidebooks, programmes, advertisements, posters, admission and other tickets.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Southend Pier
Western Esplanade
Southend-on-Sea Essex United Kingdom,
SS1 1EE | Telephone: | 01702 611 214 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6568 | Go to resource |
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