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Southend-on-Sea
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Southend on Sea, is another less well-known Jewish community by the sea. A few Jews lived in the area during the 18th Century mostly making alcohol and providing other ancillary services. The next group of Jewish residents started to arrive in the late 1800s, when the railway was built to enable Londoners to take day trips and holidays by the sea. Many of those Londoners were Jewish and required Kosher boarding houses, which started to open in the area now known as the Conservation Area of central Southend on Sea. Over time as the London's East End became less desirable more people relocated to Southend increasing the need for formal places of worship and Jewish goods and services and the town eventually attracted a very active Jewish community of around 6,000 at its height in the 1970s, after which it declined, but is still active and has also attracted new Jewish residents from the Charedi community. (Trail by Anne Marcus)
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