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Southend-on-Sea / Regno Unito

Southend-on-Sea è una città con status di borough e autorità unitaria dell'Essex , Inghilterra, Regno Unito. L'autorità fu creata come autorità unitaria dal Local Government Act 1972, il 1º aprile 1974 dal precedente county borough di Southend-on-Sea. È sede dell'importante aeroporto di Londra-Southend, oltre che del Southend Pier, il pontile più lungo al mondo.

Beecroft Art Gallery

Southend-on-Sea / Regno Unito

Beecroft Art Gallery is a gallery in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Prior to 2014, the gallery was formerly located in and Edwardian building on Station Road at Westcliff-on-Sea which was donated to the people of Southend-on-Sea in 1952 by Walter Beecroft to house his eclectic collection of art works. Walter Beecroft was a solicitor in nearby Leigh. He had already set up an Art Gallery Sub-Committee of the Public Libraries & Museum Committee in 1928, and in 1947 he proposed to endow a building to become and Art Gallery. Eventually, this led to the Beecroft Art Gallery on Station Road. Beecroft also endowed the Beecroft Bequest, an art purchase fund administered by the Museums Association. The gallery was resited in 2014 to the former home of the Central Library on Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea.