In this section you can read stories about Canvey's past.
Canvey Architect's house.
A new era for the ultra modern 1970's house.
F Cook Letterhead
Cow-keeper and dairyman
Sunday 18th July 1937
Gilt Cross for Gallantry
My Dearest Mildred
Love letters from the 1930s
Swift's Hotel??
was the Kynoch Hotel
1960's music scene.
Canvey Carnival Talent Contest?
Whittier Hall
Grandmother Daisy Brignull Choir practice 1940s?
Woods Bakers and Cafe.
A photographic mystery
From The Rev Mother Superior
Convent of the Good Shepherd
Cowkeeper and Dairyman
Pure New Milk from our own cows!!!
Canvey Historical Bibles
Its the inside that counts
1977 Silver Jubilee
Tewkes Road Street Party
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Recuperate's on Canvey in 1838
If you leave the bus at the Haystack
leave everything clear when you go.....
S Stibbards and Sons
150 years serving the community
Charlie Stamp
One of the old Canvey Characters
Canvey's Early Style
More than a hundred years ago Canvey went 'rustic'
C I Chamber of Trade and Industry
Annual Dinner Dances 1975 and 1977
Photos and Diagrams for Sale
The building of the bridge 1931
The Moving of the Tram Trailer
to Castle Point Transport Museum
102 Years Old
Tram Trailer
Tram Carriage
Body of a tram found in a back garden.
George Brittain
One of his early residences
Dutch Cottage
Renting it in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Doggetts Coat and Badge
2015 was the 300th Anniversary of the race
The Saga of the Cottage
Haven road Dutch cottage
The Last Hazard
Chapman Lighthouse
The Silver Buttons
Rock group 1960's
The Chapman Lion
Thanks to Suzanne Scott
Inside the King Canute
Brought to you by Beyond The Point
Memories of The Chapman Lighthouse
Freedom Canvey Island gave young people in the early 50's
Canvey Island
Before the bridge
Sunnyside Hotel
Before it was converted into a convent
Odds and Ends
Pictures and cuttings from the Swanson collection
The Granary
Chas. Golbourn and Co
The Old Shops in the Village
Being demolished in the late 80s
John James Turnnidge
Servant to Rev Henry Hayes
Canada Corner
A recent find
Paarl Lodge, Paarl Rd.
A family home for nearly seventy years could shortly disappear
Tremain's Library
and Confectionery
My Grandad Herbert Edward Hoad
Standing for Liberal Party 1960
The 1908 Regatta
Benfleet and Canvey Regatta and land sports.
P.C. Filmer
Canvey Policeman 1902-1911
'Kismet'
Whatever will be will be
The Humberstone Family
And the Beach House Connection
The Waters Edge Ad
1980 Carnival Prog.
Key Markets Ad
From the 1980 Carnival prog
An Exclusive Island 'Bolt Hole'
A safe distance from the gunpowder
Chapman Lighthouse
A gaunt, bright red iron giant, it stood lighting the way for sailors for over a century
The Excavation of a "Red Hill" on Canvey Island
By Warwick J. Rodwell, F.S.A.(Scot.) dated 1966
Archaeological Remains of Pantile & Tree Farm
Includes video documentary & previously unseen remains
Canvey Map 1898 Edited 1923
Showing Sunken Marsh and Newlands
Canvey Map 1793
Freehold and Third Acre
Excavations at Canvey Point
Booklet printed 1982 Compiled by P J Johnson
El Monico?
Problem??? No Problem
The Chalet, Leigh Beck
Drawn by Frank Lansdown
What's in a Name?
Why 'Admiral Jellicoe?
William Usher Carey
The last Proprietor of the Old Red Cow PH
Thomas William Stanford
Proprietor Red Cow PH 1917-1929
Leslie Claxton
Claxton married Aldridge
Get your tents here!
Thorney Bay campsite
Remembrance Day
With Fred McCave
Clifton Estate
Documents from 1928-33
Coronation Party
Carole Peck nee Disney
Fielder's Post War Camp
Bring your own accommodation
Porch in Memory of Mother
Chelmsford Chronicle January 1950
Canvey - Benfleet Crossing
From Dowd's Canvey Cyclopaedia
The Atomic Bungalows
Long Road/Miramar Avenue
Clement's Dairies
Proprietors Ernest and Maud Clement
W. J. Tibbett Jnr Builder's Merchant
An advert from the 1925 Canvey Official Guide "Charming Cheerful Canvey"
The SS Benmohr
and the cement barrels
1720 map of Canvey
from an Essex map by Robert Morden
Map of Canvey 1780
from a map of Essex by Emanuel Bowen, c.1780
Map of Canvey Island 1648
from Joan Bleu's 1648 Essex map
The Swallows Childrens Home
Postcard from Jill Goodchild
Cottage of St Hugh
aka Riverside Café
Murder at Canvey?
Human Bones Found
The Canvey Supply Company
Fred McCave's article in the Bulletin 1980
Old Canvey Maps
Canvey Village
Beach House
Looking North
The Lobster Smack
During the 1930s/40s
The Invasion of 1667
The story of a Dutch attack on Canvey Island
A Cafe at Canvey Island
The Architect and Building News 1934
Canvey's freshwater flood in 1968
The Gafzelle Drive ferry service.
Peerless and Unic
Do you remember them?
Eagle Steamers
Stevens local agent
The Keil Family
Canvey's connection to the famous KeilKraft Kits aircraft scale model-makers.
Frost Aid Begins At Home
Advert in Captivating Canvey 1958-9
Sequel to Canvey Island Made History
Canvey Methane Terminal Inground Tanks
The Ozonia Saga
Recollections of Ozonia by Harry Russell
1792 Act ; Original Copy.
''An Act for more effectually embanking etc "
Old Canvey Adverts c1950
Some names are well known some not
Claxton's Advert
Essex Countryside July 1977
Wildfowl and Zeppelins
the story of wildfowling on Canvey Island
Swing Bridge, Canvey Island
Questions in the House of Commons
Crisp Molineaux Harridge 1788-1863
Publican at Sluice Inn (Lobstersmack Inn)
Magic Lantern Slides
Local cinema adverts from the late 30s
Canvey Island
First House?
Frank Saul
Spurs Footballer
Canvey Clay Pottery
Written by the author of 'Invaders of Canvey' Olivia Whitcomb, B.Ed Hons.
The Hotel Monico
Its Illuminated inn sign used for navigation
"The Hills"
and the striped buildings
The Song of Canvey
Sung by the Dutch to Sir Cornelius Vermuyden
The Deep Water Docks schemes
Sale of part of the Spitty Estate
Canvey Island Methane Terminal
Photos taken from PS Waverley
Canvey Island Sea Wall
by Herbert Price Powell Esq from the 1931 Canvey Guide
Canvey Island's Institutions
Originally published in the 1931 Canvey Island Guide
Mr Joseph Hills 1816-1909
Illustrated by Tom Merry
Canvey District Nursing Association
Affiliated to the Essex County Association
Kate Carney visits Canvey
Music hall singer and comedian
Canvey Island and its Churches Price 6d
Published in 1947 By W Marston Acres with Illustrations
The 'Sketch' Sept. 13, 1893
in its 'Small Talk' column had this to say about Canvey:
The Naturalist on the Thames
published in 1902 possibly written c1896 by C.J. Cornish (1858-1906)
Andromeda, an Idyll of the Great River
A novel By Robert Buchanan, published 1900
Harold Allpress Thomas
Founder of Whittier Hall
Windyridge
Mr & Mrs Fenwick
Knightswick Farm in 1913
Southend & Westcliff Graphic (Friday, 8th August 1913)
A Cartoon from 1969
Signs of the times
Cricksea aka Greenglades
Pictures of this High Street Cafe
Underwoods - The Benfleet Slipway
Boat building and repairing by the Creek
Musings on old pictures
A look at old Postcards
A Canvey Mystery
Snow-White the Red Cow
Maurice Blackford RN 1873-1933
Served on HMS Orlando during the Boxer Rebellion
The Susannah Howard Stone
Thames Hoymen and Lightermen
St Katherine's Churchyard
'Pages' of Canvey's History
Wreck Hall - Farm of 'A Thousand Years'
An extract from 'Canvey Island - A History'
Oysterfleet Farm
A story of Canvey folk
Wreck(Rack) Hall Farm and the Morley family
The Canvey-Stoke Newington-Canvey connections
Ferry Tales
Problems of being an Island