Trolleybuses in Southend-on-Sea . None of the former Southend trolleybuses is recorded as having been preserved. Trolleybuses in Southend-on-Sea The Southend-on-Sea trolleybus system once served the town of Southend-on-Sea, in Essex, England. Opened on , it gradually replaced Southend-on-Sea Corporation Tramways. By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Southend system was a moderately sized one, with a total of 4 routes, and a maximum fleet of 34 trolleybuses. The fleet included the only trolleybus built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company. which was sold to the Corporation after it had been exhibited at the
Clacton-on-Sea and Friday before the August Bank Holiday, with historic and modern aircraft such as the Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane, Harrier, Jaguar, Tornado, and helicopters. There are also wing-walkers and the Red Arrows. Clacton has a shopping area with many of the usual national chains represented, and a Factory Shopping Village in the north of the town. Clacton has two theatres, the West Cliff Theatre and the Princes Theatre. The West Cliff is one of the last theatres in the country to put on an old-style summer show. Clacton was a site of the lower Palaeolithic Clactonian industry of flint tool manufacture.