Crossword-Solution: SOUTHEND 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Not only along the road through Barnet, but also through Edgware and Waltham Abbey, and along the roads eastward to Southend and Shoeburyness, and south of the Thames to Deal and Broadstairs, poured the same frantic rout.

The vessel was wrecked the next morning.” I said: “Weren’t you a little shaky by Southend Pier one day, and wanted to be thrown overboard?” “Southend Pier!” he replied, with a puzzled expression.

There were other signs of prosperity: photographs of the relations of ’Erb and his wife in Sunday clothes; on the chimney-piece an elaborate arrangement of shells stuck on a miniature rock; and on each side mugs, ‘A present from Southend’ in Gothic letters, with pictures of a pier and a parade on them.

The sea-reach of the Thames is straight, and, once Sheerness is left behind, its banks seem very uninhabited, except for the cluster of houses which is Southend, or here and there a lonely wooden jetty where petroleum ships discharge their dangerous cargoes, and the oil-storage tanks, low and round with slightly-domed roofs, peep over the edge of the fore-shore, as it were a village of Central African huts imitated in iron.

Some of us struggle manfully to take one, but we never succeed, if I may be allowed to express myself metaphorically, we never succeed in getting farther than Southend.” “You’re depressing,” said Anne.