The Kursaal Southend

The British GPO released a First Class stamp issue under the heading; Famous Land Marks, A to Z. The letter K will be The Kursaal at Southend. This building once housed a winter circus and The Sandow Family appeared there during the winter of 1951 – 1952. The building and circus was run by the Morehouse family (jam manufacturers) and at the season close gave a medal to every performer. This is a photo of one of them. Daily Mail press cover of 8th October 2011.

This 1950s photographs shows the Kursall building in the background (Thanks to Catherine McCarvell for sending this to me).