Footfall on shopping streets was falling even before the coronavirus crisis hit
It is 9.15am on the warmest day of the year so far, and Southend-on-Sea High Street is eerily quiet. Towards the southern end, near the Essex town’s Thames estuary waterfront, a herring gull paces up and down outside a chip shop. If it’s waiting for scraps, it could be there a while; above the shuttered fast food outlet is a “shop to let” sign.
A passerby, Bernadette De Villiers, is disappointed; she has come into the town centre to go to the bank – but it is not yet open.
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