Thanks to those who made the trip to the end of Southend Pier today, to see the Sarfend Visitors Book placed in the safe custody of the team at the RNLI Gift Shop. The idea for a Sarfend Visitors book came from  ex-pat Brian Mendes, who now lives in Ontario, Canada. Brian is a regular [...]

A quick reminder that the Sarfend Visitor’s Book Signing Event takes place tomorrow, Thursday the 18th of November 2010. We’d like to encourage all of our site visitors and forum regulars to visit Southend Pier, where The Worshipful the Mayor of Southend-on-Sea, Councillor Ann Holland will be signing the Sarfend Visitors Book at 1pm. We’ll [...]

The local community news website, Longpier.com, has announced that it will close today. In a final post, Goodbye to Longpier, the site’s owner James Harrod cites a lack of local sponsorship and problems with engagement of a  fellow journalist, as the prime reasons for the decision to close the Southend website. With so few local [...]