A trip down to East London and Essex

Possibly because of the Olympic Games and the authorities, possibly simply because of the recession, if one area of the country has seen a bigger shrinkage in its range of adult services and in particular its massage parlours than any other, it has to be the East End of London. Back in 1995, when I started my mission to bring a bit of consumer protection into an industry that had had none of any consequence before I turned up on the scene, East London boasted a very healthy selection of adult services and in particular a delightful variety of massage parlours. There were over twenty in all stretching then everywhere from Dagenham to Chingford, from Bow to Hornchurch. Now just eleven remain, plus three longstanding private flats or houses and two very distinctive party operations. And even some of the eleven are not that notable. I was due to produce an article for a top shelf magazine on the area, so I decided to come down to London for a couple of days to check out the scene and to have a look around a few establishments and the odd lady both in East London and just outside the area in Essex, the county that rivals Merseyside, in its own distinctive way, in being as different from the rest of England as it could be.

Coming down the M11 from Cambridge, my first call was going to be on Chelsea of Harlow, a lady I had met on a couple of occasions and whom I managed to get through to by phone a couple of days before I set out. However ladies in this industry, when working alone can be very fickle and I had no luck in getting through to her by phone when I tried on a couple of occasions, so I headed towards Braintree and then the other lady I hoping to see based well outside London, curiously another Chelsea, this one based in Chelmsford. Again I had no luck, so getting a text from my next prospective call, Nikki's of Basildon. I swung further south towards it. Nikki was there herself and suggested I try out Summer, a very busty and somewhat tattooed sometimes adult actress and a lady who, like the mythical bank, likes to say yes. She was very energetic, I can see why she has had such a successful career in adult movies, and I left sufficiently refreshed by my encounter.

www.nikkismassage.co.uk

I now tried ringing Kirsty, a veteran of the industry, who at one time was known as Kimberley and who had been and was once again based in Hornchurch on the eastern periphery of Greater London. I had talked to her successfully on the way down, but had no luck this day. So I headed for my hotel, a Travelodge in Docklands and decided to try and organise some calls for the evening and some more for tomorrow. I had talked to Danielle, a tall lady with hidden depths, she has a second career as a deejay and is very keen and knowledgable about science fiction, who entertains from a flat in Bow. She also has by all accounts first rate oral talent and she had indicated on our last meeting that she would like to show me just how good orally she can be. However Summer had rendered any meeting at this juncture somewhat pointless and while I thought I might get around to talking to her the following day, a suitable opportunity did not present itself.

www.danielle-at-bow.com

I was also due to meet up with Tony, the supremo at Libby's, probably still the East End's biggest parlour, at 9 and got there bang on time. Tony and I went up to his office and had a long chat about acquaintances we had in common and after concluding our business, I managed to persuade Kay, an attractive lady, who does two days a week at Libby's but who also entertains from her own base, to pose for some photos and then I headed out to my last call of the day on Palm Springs in Romford, a parlour that has been operating off and on since soon after the millennium.

Greeted by two very friendly Eastern European ladies, I was shown around and impressed. It has come on quite a bit since my last visit, which had been some years ago, when it was known as Fantasy Sauna.

I got back to my hotel at a reasonable hour and the following day rang around several people I had hoped to see the previous day including the two Chelsea's and Kirsty and also a domme I had had an interesting conversation with not that long before, Mistress Maddy of Witham. I was however giving her too little notice and she was unable to see me. She is moving into bigger premises with more equipment soon, so hopefully I will catch up with her the next time I am down in this county.

www.secretdesires.me.uk

My first call of the day was on Gemma's of Chadwell Heath. Despite being located approximately midway between Ilford and Romford, and being postally Romford, Chadwell Heath curiously is located in neither Redbridge or Havering, but in a northern bulge of the London borough of Barking and Dagenham and now boasts the most notable parlour in that borough. I met up with Kay and her partner Micky, when I got there soon after 1pm. It turns out Summer from Basildon also entertains here and they have some delightful ladies. Somehow the topic of Harriet Harman came up and one of the two ladies working there had no time for her, pointing out in no uncertain terms how her opinion of working ladies, that all of them are forced into working in the industry was just so much rubbish. And as the lady made clear to me, nobody had asked her if she was being coerced into working in the industry. And clearly the parlour was still thriving, despite the recession.

www.kayjemmas.co.uk

I now headed out to Billericay to visit Julie's at Billericay Sauna and to see my old friend Clive. He was finding life tough what with the recession, but was keeping busy enough and was upbeat, particularly after all the hassle he had with the authorities. We had a long chat about life in general and he acknowledged that the number of parlours around in both Essex and East London had fallen quite markedly in recent years. As I left I got a phonecall out of the blue from Chelsea of Chelmsford, apologising for not getting back to me sooner and quite clearly from the sound of her not in the best of health. Hopefully she will get better soon and I look forward to our meeting up the next time I am in Essex.

www.billericaysauna.co.uk

And with that I headed home getting back in good time.

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