Memory Benches :: Marine Parade, Leigh on Sea [Part 3]

There are fifty seven benches with plaques along Marine Parade between Vernon Road and Belton Way East.

Following the map below from left to right, there are eight benches in a row between Vernon Road and Theobalds Road, with four more in a row set further in front. There are two benches in the entrance from Theobalds Road, then nine benches in a row between Theobalds Road and Burnham Road. There are nine benches between Burnham Road and Salisbury Road. There are six benches in a slight arch opposite Salisbury Road leading into a further sixteen benched up to the corner of Belton Way East. Finally, there are three benches sat on their own just down the first section of Belton Way East.

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The Benches

1. W H & E F Kimpton
2. Annie Kathleen Bryon
3. Tony & Joan Saunders
4. Victor & Phoebe Hester
5. Ivy Gaunt
6. Helen Smith
7. Charlie & Ivy Field + Henry Charles & Isabel Daisy Blunt
8. Derek J E Bloxwich
9. Sidney Henry & Daisy Kebby
10. George & Maud Mills & Stella + G M & J M Archer
11. Graham Dowzall
12. Eric James Crane
13. Doris Leathart
14. Brenda Anne Smith
15. Walter Wilson Reid
16. Harold H Baker
17. Charles & Adelaide Reader
18. Gwen Harley
19. Harry & Winnie Cross
20. John & Violet Bray
21. Len Marriner
22. Bronmia Owen
23. Arthur Sparrow
24. George & Frederick Maynard
25. Mabel Jessie Allen
26. Ellen & Horance Frederick Boxall
27. Ron & Rita Petchey + Kitty, Doris & Edith May
28. Evelyn Caroline & Joseph Tull + Pauline Mary Rice
29. Alfred Charles & Blanche Maud Labram
30. Joseph Alfred Mills
31. Hall & Daphne Blanch
32. Darren Anthony Fergusson
33. Maureen Hewitt
34. Peter & Doug Kent
35. Kathleen Mary Collins
36. Julie Butler
37. Agnes & James Turner
38. Peter & Betty Butler
39. John & Dora Lake
40. Gordon & Marion Murray + Betty Smith
41. James F Watts
42. Bessie Creary
43. Arthur  & Marjorie Swansborough
44. Hayward Family
45. Raymond Pead
46. West Leigh Baptist Church
47. Ellen Maud Beckitt
48. Lilian Annie & Cecil Osborn + Elvina Savill
49. Harry & Donald Moxon
50. Norman Wakeling
51. Florence & Herbert Meddle
52. Ann Bayliss
53. Herbert & Dorothy Bates
54. Val Browne
55. Kathleen Elsie Wood
56. Agnes & Tommy & June Baird
57. Brian & Joan Antrobus

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The Views

I sat on each bench and took a photo of the view to be had. These travel left to right along the sea front.

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The Walk

Photos taken along the way.