- Wikidata identifier:
- Q86057293
- Instance of:
- local museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 490
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q86057293/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Local History
The collections include material relating to passenger ferry transport, such as steamboat tableware, tickets and timetables, and to the Southend lifeboats including boards recording call outs from 1899 to 1970. Rolling stock from the Southend pier railway, signalling equipment and ephemera. Seaside souvenirs and ephemera relating to the pier and the foreshore. Collection of portraits, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia associated Alderman William Charles Bradley, Southend’s ‘hero’, who rose from smuggler to Pier Master to Alderman. Photographs and postcards of the pier, steamers and other shipping, disasters, lifeboats, personalities etc. Ledgers and account books relating to the pier and foreshore, publications of the Pier and Foreshore Department and the RNLI. Guidebooks, programmes, advertisements, posters, admission and other tickets.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC