We've also set up a proper blog here for anyone to add to, just click on the comments section.
http://jaywicked.blogspot.com/
There are also these great websites where you can have your say about Jaywick:
http://shewolf.notnet.co.uk/jaywick/
http://www.jaywick.net/
Sent: 26 October
2008 12:34
To: info@jaywicked.org
Subject: Updated Jaywick community web board.
Hi
all, congratulations on the work.
as
my granddaughter is staying with us this week, we will pop up and have a look.
Due
to things out of my control, i have left the jaywicksands site, but re -
instated my
jaywicksregen.proboards106.com
web
board site.
As
such can you include me onto your mailing list.
I
am a proud Jaywick resident, and have many meetings at the Tower as i belong to
friends of, and on the Summer Fayre working group.
Kind
regards, Ian Burit...
Re: A fine sea
breeze wafts over Jaywick
From: Elin -
Theories Landscapes Ltd
Sent: 27 October 2008 15:27
To: info@jaywicked.org
Subject: A fine sea breeze wafts over Jaywick
Wow!
Jaywick's wicked!?!?In a couple of ways yes, and in many ways no. I am
quite shocked that Jaywick is getting so much attention all of a sudden.
"Quintessentially
Cheers
Elin
The wind on the sea wall screams from west to east
tearing and rolling the sand from the skin of the beach,
carrying grains like a ruffled and tattered silk scarf
over the surface and under the sea birds’ screech.
This glittering veil wraps itself scratchily round
the legs of the seagulls, scuffling and huddling down,
prickling their skin and stirring the smooth of their feathers
till they rise on their wings and lift into storm brewed weather.
The wind’s playing havoc now, hearing the call of the moon,
it strengthens, then batters and buffets the shape of the dunes.
lifting the beach sand over the concrete wall,
piling it up, covering the path with a pall
of plastic and bottles, seaweed and brackish brown foam,
spread out for the children to kick as they make their way home.
Judith Wolton. February 2008
Now is the time when day
sits silently
waiting.
Gulls stand still
on wet stones, shining –
resting their necks in hunched wings.
Tides hold back their waves
deep in the crab’s hole.
Wind holds its breath in salty lungs
and dares not move the marram,
nor shift the glittering sand
spread out in long curves.
Sky is shelled in nacre,
oyster-still and cirrus high –
waiting.
The fisherman’s boat
leans into the arc of dark rocks;
its black and ragged flags
bunched like an old bouquet,
hanging limp in its stern -
waiting.
Look across at the Odeon curve
of the thirties Sunspot Café,
catching the first rays,
warming its sluttish heart,
as it waits for the day to begin.
Judith Wolton. May 2008
Sent: 08 November 2008 00:31
To: info@jaywicked.org
Subject: Jaywick, famous for being in films
HI, being a local vocal resident, i`d thought i`d tell you to look on that violent film "the Essex Boys"
in the early part of the film, it was shot on location in Brooklands then into Essex Avenue until it stopped outside whats known localy as "the essex boys place"
Its now blue & white, on the left midway down Essex Avenue standing on a double plot.
For historical reasons, the film clip should be saved and shown in the Tower.
Kind regards,
Ian Burit,
friend of the tower,
working group summer fayre, etc...
Hiya all, i found these photos, some of the Tower, with all the "tombstones" filled with caravans on them.
http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/essex/jaywick/photos/jaywick_photos.htm
See you all soon,
kind regards, Ian Burit.
Sent: 08 November 2008 20:54
To: info@jaywicked.org
Subject: More from me
My Jaywick.
After looking at sculpted sand fiqures in a far off shore..
I look in wonder, in silence and awe
I look and wished and hoped i could draw
I look at the fiqures and scenes and saw
I look at the skill of scenes, fiqures and more
I wished i could be as clever as smart and clued
I wished i could craft with sands and hands not glued
I wished i could make as life like as a real life mood
I wished i could be gifted be great be one good dude
I have used my time spent on life things old and grey
I have used my thoughts to remember some far of day
I have used my high days and low days and sit and say
I have used my life's times from near and far far away
I wished for no more new things to make me look neat
I wished for no new shoes for new socks for my feet
I wished for no laws no new rules or regulations to meet
I wished for no years no new cards no new boxed new treat
I need my old life style my old way my comfort of home
I need my old neighbours my friends and some
I need no more changes to lifestyle to living like a gnome
I need my jaywick my hometown my time set in stone.
Kind reagards, Ian Burit.
Sent: 08 November 2008 20:59
To: info@jaywicked.org
Subject: Even more from me..... Regen in areas new, it can happen, even to you.
regen in areas new, it can happen even to you.
What can happen if your not too carefull if you move away.
Hearne bay its miles away
its another place for you to stay
you can visit it for just a day
its fun to find to go and say
i`ve been to visit just for the day
but you can move and not come back
you can even leave your tired old shack
leaving friends and foes and tat
fresh new homes and welcome mat
places to see and visit with glee
new bright estates next to the sea
who will visit to drive to see me
sitting all happy looking over the sea
but when you look so hard with glass
you seem to think about your past
neighbours gone their days the last
bright coloured bungalows taken to task
regenened and bright and fresh and new
but lacking its communities favorite few
the newbies purchase and try with might
to bring good standing without old fright
old brooklands now cold and distant past
with its owners who fought each to the last
standing stories 3 tall the views all can see
that old Gold Coast just next to the sea
the cost for this is heavens high
stories 3 reach up near to the sky
but fortunes for the many not like you
but costly houses thats for the chosen few.
Dear all,
this is the link for our BBC Lookeast news clip about 2 - 4 - 1 homes in Jaywick. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7716973.stm
Ian Burit.
Dear all,
after talking about this in my recorded memmories,
i have found the online story:
Jaywick: Facing the bulldozer?
From the archive, first published Tuesday 28th Feb 2006.
An entire estate in Jaywick could be bulldozed in a bid to boost the ailing resort.
More than 530 properties in the Brooklands area will be replaced with 364 bigger houses if the plan gets the go-ahead.
Brooklands is also in line for new retail space, extended community facilities, an upgraded beach esplanade and a new park at Martello Tower under the proposal.
It would also see 953 houses built in Jaywick in total, largely on undeveloped land to the north and north-east of Brooklands and in Tudor Fields.
The Environment Trust, which is leading the consultation on the regeneration project, revealed the option at a consultation event.
A spokesman for planner Llewelyn Davies Yeang, which is developing the blueprint, said its recommendations would be passed to Tendring Council in six weeks.
More in today's Evening Gazette Published Tuesday, February 28, 2006 From the archive http://www.gazette-news.co.uk
This was thrown at us residents on the fatefull night in February 2006, and as yet still unresolved as a "future" meeting......
Kind regards, Ian Burit.
Sent: 09 November 2008 16:43
To: info@jaywicked.org
Subject: Vic`s letter to her granddad
Vic`s letter to her grandad.
Dec, 2007,
victoria, aged 7. christmas day eve. father christmas is nearly here. 20.20pm.
(1) flood escape made so that roads can see the escape route. it can be on sign posts or bus stops.
i think this is a good idea-do you.
(2) if it floods the sea wall should be heavy and tall so in a flood it will give the people more time to escape.
26th december 1/2 past nine in
morning
Vics ideas to make Clacton better age 7.
(3) more shops for girls and more amusements for boys.
27th december 11.00
(4) houses made for less money.
this is what a very thoughtfull young girl wrote just before, during, and after the season of Christmas was going on with presents being wished for, then opened, then played with..
while all this was going on, she found time to stop...
think about her Nan & Grandads home next to the north sea....
and then write down her thoughts...
At just 7 years old, how much does it affect her thoughts, even when she lives 70 miles away, how much does the grown ups discussions about our future for those that live in Jaywick, affect other children who either live here or have their nans and grandads that do live here..
It worries me just how much truama it really is for those who do live in Jaywick, have to endure on a daily, weekly, and even yearly basis without us knowing about it, but is shown to us by a visiting 7 year old childs mind....
Its quite shocking is`nt it.....
Ian Burit
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