THE Falcon pub on Southend’s seafront looked very different in 1880, when the stretch of road was called Strutts Parade.
The “then” image was sourced by Jon Wennington, member of the Ros Southend Past in Photos, old Southend and memories Facebook group, and it taken from a book by Jessie K Payne.
It states that the building was originally a private house “No 4 Strutts parade” named after John James Strutt, 2nd Baron Rayleigh, who builtit.
JohnandhiswifeClarahadason, John William Strut, who was a famous physicist. In 1904, with chemist Sir William Ramsay, he won the NobelPrize for their joint discovery of the gas argon. In the wall of the chapel of St Andrew, Westminster Abbey is a white marble memorial to John William Strutt.
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