"Everyday is Like Sunday" - the locations
The video for Morrissey's 1988 single Everyday Is Like Sunday was filmed in Southend on Sea in Essex. As that is less than 10 miles from where I live, I've meant for ages to take current pictures of the locations and compare with the video. I've finally got round to it. The video features a young girl (apparently played by Lucette Henderson) and two women (who've been described as her mother and older sister, although that's never made explicit in the video). The older woman is Billie Whitelaw, who among many other roles played the nanny in The Omen. The younger is Cheryl Murray, formerly in Coronation Street, often mentioned as a favourite TV programme of Morrissey's. It opens with a view of the Golden Discs record shop in Queens Road. I many times bought records here, including when it later became a branch of HMV . Now, though, it's a bar The scene changes to Whitelaw and Murray exiting a shopping centre - the Royals , at the top of Pier Hill We then g