Kursaal can’t regain its glory (From Echo)
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Kursaal can’t regain its glory
1:37pm Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Letters
May I take exception to the headline “Good times set to roll again at the Kursaal”
(Feb 3).
It is indeed good news the bowling alley has reopened, but that does not mean the good times will return to the poor ravaged Kursaal.
My family used to come to Southend for a day at the Kursaal with its extensive gardens, fairground, miniature railway, sideshows, wall of death and the wonderful water chute. Locals also enjoyed the ballroom, and a circus at Christmas.
It was a real Southend attraction.
The good times can never return after it was pillaged by speculators. Younger generations can have no idea of the excitement of a visit to the Kursaal.
John Alexander
Surbiton Road
Southend
emcee says...
11:27pm Tue 7 Feb 12
Blame whomever you will for all this but one thing is for certain, Southend will never, ever, be the attraction and fun place it once was. If it were not for the immigrant population and the original, resiliant Southend residents, who will hang on to the last remnants of a town they once loved, the whole place would be dead and boarded up. We are half way there already.