In this section you can read stories about Canvey's past.
Canvey Souvenirs
Recently spotted on the internet
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
Canvey in Art
Do you know the artist?
The Stuckey Sisters
Their life on Canvey from the 1920's
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
A 'Canway' Souvenir
A Present from Germany
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