Essex Girls!

pompa absent started a thread "I think I could guess..." asking who were prefects or head girls at school. It emerged that a handful of us mentioned being at school or living in Essex, and it was rosesarered I think who suggested we should have a club . So it looks as if we have one now, thanks to mishap!

Mishap "Since we are hijacking the prefect thread" - I'm puzzled ????

In my teens I lived in Leytonstone, which was Essex then. Over the border into Hetrfordshire for a few years and the up to Tiptree back in 1967 where we still are. Perfect part of the world, amazingly, considering we are only an hour from London, it is a quiet backwater away from the rush, and we have the historic Roman Colchester a bus ride away. Pitcity, we must have a meet up some time.
Superb coastline. lots of interesting backwaters and creeks, Mersea oysters and IMO one of the best beaches in Britain at Frinton.

Well strictly speaking I'm a Londoner, born in Hackney Hospital. I moved to Hutton in Essex when I was nearly 7, then to Rayleigh when I was 13. By that time I was established at the Ursuline High School in Brentwood, so I continued my education there. Later I went to Southend Technical College.

Like Mishap, I spent a lot of time in Southend as a teenager, with Saturday jobs that included Woolworths and Rossi's ice-cream parlour on the sea-front. And Saturday nights at the Cliff's Pavilion! Shopping for the latest fashions in Nat's in the (then) new shopping precinct near Victoria Station. Going 'out for a meal' at the Talk of the Town, feeling very classy and grown up! Or to The Golden Egg for a posh snack after the cinema.

I moved to a little village near Maldon when I married, and after a few years we came to Devon and have been here ever since.

I am an Essex Girl and proud of it!
Born in Ilford (which was still in Essex then) and lived there for 20 years. Moved to Brentwood for another 20 and now in Colchester. From bottom to top of Essex!