Southend-on-Sea is known as London’s playground.

Seven miles of award-winning beaches, the longest pleasure pier in the world, over eighty parks and open spaces of varying size, forty playgrounds, six nature and fourteen historic conservation areas, … and that’s just for starters.
There are also four museums, two theatres, two art galleries, seven libraries, three casinos, a bowling alley, a Sealife centre, the largest fun park in the south-east, a skateboard park and BMX track, five leisure centres, a watersports centre, even an airport.… and there’s more. See you there?