... Remember sometimes in the winter when you wake up, look out the window and think it’s a really warm and lovely day, get in a great mood, run outside in your shorts and fine it is 0 degrees out? Looks can be deceiving… This is a picture of one time when I looked out of my window and did exactly the same thing! Be careful getting dressed in the morning. ...
... Michael Darwood Loved Kings since it was originally called Newlands. First went there in 1963....
... When I was 3 my brother, my sister (we’re triplets) and my parents moved to Canvey Island, it was so fun going to the beach for the first time and exploring Canvey. We moved from London which is not the nicest palces to live and when we moved to Canvey the air seemed clearer and it seemed much more peaceful. We’ve now been living here for 10 years this November. ...
... When I was a very young boy I used to enjoy eating spaghetti but then came the day when I got older. That day I was very excited as I just came back from a party round my grandmothers house. So when I was given my spaghetti I started banging the table and suddenly when I was banging, I clipped the edge of the bowl and before you knew it was wearing my spaghetti on my head!! ...
... My story is about my first football tournament for Canvey Island Youth under 12s. Before now Canvey had only reached the group stage but this time we made it to the final. I won player of the tournament. I had loads of fun. ...
... It was after school when me an my mates Kesey H, Katie C, and these other girls went to the woodern park. I enjoyed myself as I spent time with my best mates. It was nice weather, then we went down to the beach to relax and enjoy. We wrote are names in big letters in the sand. !!!!IT WAS FUN!!!! ...
The Lake is my favourite place because it is where I first learnt to ride my bike. Its one of the only places where I can ride my bike with my mates. I walk along the lake when I go down the town. Its a great place to go meet my friends. My sister loves to feed the ducks down the lake and the good thing is that we live really close to it. The lake starts at Link road and finshes at the town. Most people walk their dogs down there. Its always fill...
CANVEY ISLAND , which is united to South Benfleet by a bridge opened in 1931 at a cost of £20,000 across Hadleigh Ray, and originally part of the parishes of Bowers Gifford, Hadleigh, North Benfleet, Laindon, Pitsea, Prittlewell, South Benfleet, Southchurch and Vange, was formed into a civil and ecclesiastical parish 4 March, 1881, but under the provisions of the Canvey Island (Constitution of Urban District) Order, 1926, the parish was converted...
... B Interesting book. Could one of those parishes be Gt Russell Head? Janet Penn no Great Russellhead was a farm ...
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Pauline Gashinski was born on Canvey Island emigrating to Canada because of the flood in 1953. She says of the floods ‘My Dad floated us all out – my mom, 3 kids and a chow dog in an old bathtub’. This is her story of her grandfather’s life. Dick Monte Born 1876, Wood Green, London, he was the youngest of four sons. His father James Monte was a photographer who operated several photographic studios throughout London before retiring to Southend in...
The external repairs to St Katherine’s are now complete including the extra work created by the paint attack mentioned below. As you can see all trace has been removed. 30th July 2008 less than three months for a face lift 30th July2008 St Katherine’s looks great On the 6th July, I thought that St Katherine’s (The Heritage Centre) restorations had been finished. I went to investigate and to my horror found all this damage had been done. Some dama...
... richard(biff)smith That would be me infront along with Mick Norris, Jeff Burder, Jason Carter, Alan Berry and Mick Smith, Steve Murphey was late so missed the photo's Janet Penn We have just found a newspaper cutting which seems to imply the refurbishment of the Dutch Cottage was 1988. Can anyone confirm? ...
... Phil B produced humourous Post Cards, normally featuring well know Canvey Characters of the day. Can you name any of the characters (please leave a message below) or do you have any more of this series? Please email them in! “Dressy”: This appears to show the two large trees that straddled Furtherwick Road and the Haystack The Dutch Cottage ...
... It is said this lighthouse was built as an out house for the mother in law of the occupant of the adjacent bungalow, Capt Gregson. The Bungalow eventually became the Oysterfleet Pub and later the Dr Feelgood Club. The Lighthouse was sadly demolished before a presevation order could be placed on it. The Oysterfleet Pub was also later demolished and replaced with a Hotel and Pub with a beer garden by the Lake. ...
The three pictures of bombed out buildings on Canvey Island were taken from a souvenir edition of a local newspaper published on the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of WW2. The bungalow above was wrecked during the month of September 1940 roundabout a year after war broke out. This picture shows members of the Civil Defence Reserve clearing the wreckage of another bungalow about three years later. Again this picture was taken in 1943. If anyone ...
... Pauline believes this picture was taken in a pub on Canvey in the 1950’s just after her parents (Carrie and John Tindale) moved to Canvey. Carrie is the third woman from the left in the front row and John is the third from the right in the back row. Can anyone name the pub? Can anyone name the faces? Some certainly looked as if they were enjoying themselves. ...
The first and third pictures were part of a set of pictures taken when my daughter and her fellow classmates were doing a project on the town centre for their GCSE coursework in 1988. Gateways has long disappeared changing to Somerfields then Sainsburys. See below for a picture taken in 2008. Sainsburys 2008 These shops in Furtherwick Road look the same. But the road looks remarkably empty. Furtherwick Rd 2008 Concord Cafe has not changed much. T...
Mrs Dingle’s class of 1983/4 Back Row L-R. Lesley Penn, Sarah Harrison, Samantha Warren, Leanne White, Kelly Skates, Laura Burns, Not Known, the rest not known. Middle Row L-R. Matthew Fautley, Not Known, Denton Crane, Dale Martin, Danielle Binks, Zoe Malin, Donna Watling, Suzanne Hayes, Not Known, Kay Beeston, Kelly Elliott. Bottom Row L-R. Richard John, Sean Talbot, Thomas Kerr, Matthew Careless, Not Known, Simon Maltby, Not Known, Lee Williams...
Thanks to Richard Powell for lending us this photo taken of the class of 1927-28 at ‘William Reed’ school. The girl in the middle marked with a cross is Edith Bone. Richard’s wife Edith (nee Bone) was born in the village post office, the midwife who attended at her birth was Miss Dorothy Stevens, an aunt of Aubrey Stevens of the Stevens Bakery. Edith’s grandfather used to farm the Oysterfleet farm and her father married into an old village family...
What a good idea for the site, especially for the old timers like myself. I know I am going back a bit but did any of you go to Leigh Beck School around 1943 as I did? After being evacuated to a place called Little Araden in Wellingborough during the war, my mum brought me to Canvey to live with my grandmother after she found out I was being ill treated. My grandmothers name was Lil Dowler and her bungalow was the only property between Leigh Beck...
Here you can click to hear an edited version of Dr Feelgood Manager Chris Fenwick welcoming visitors from all over the World to the annual Lee Brilleaux memorial walk around Canvey Island. After meeting at the Oyster Fleet Hotel we start the walk at the historical Lobster Smack Inn at Hole Haven. Photos of the Walk are available HERE In the evening the Oyster Fleet Hotel hosts the Lee Brilleaux Memorial Show, all proceeds going to ‘Havens Hospice...
... Valentina Hi, Dave The day was fantastic Thanks for pictures, great! ...
... On 07/07/07 three men made a walk to the ‘World’s End’, in the steps of their ancestors around the western side of Canvey Island. Dave Bullock’s pictures were so colourful and so plentiful, I felt I was there when perusing them. I just had to put finger to keyboard…. ...