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Me and my new family
... When I was 7 my mum and dad split up and first of all I lived with my mum but after 2 years my dad filed for custody of me. I was sad at first but after thinking about it, it was the best thing that happened to me. I now have a stepbrother and stepsister and a step-mum. I love my new family so much. ...
Me and me dad
... When I was 7 my mum and dad split up and first of all I lived with my mum but now I live with my dad. When I lived with me mum, my dad took me to an old fair in Canvey that is not there anymore and we went on the same ride. I LOVED IT!!!!! ...
Rachel & Amy's Memories
... Rachel :- I remember there was a carnival that used to go down the street. They had loads of different floats and many different activities and at the end they used to stop at Labworth where they had a huge fair. Amy :- My memories are when there used to be a market by the Monico pub by the seafront, there used to be apple bobbing and toffee apple’s but the best memory is when I started Furtherwick Park school, and I met great friends. ...
Our Memories
We are two 13 year olds who have been best friends all of our lives and have shared LOADS of memories on Canvey. When we was younger we went to Leigh Beck School hah that was fun, the best thing about that was our year 6 production. I think it was last summer that we both went swimming over Thorney Bay swimming pool we had soo much fun but got really burnt. We sort of have an obsession with calling each other fat and being horrible to each other ...
Memories
Our memories of Furtherwick Park are those of good ones. We enjoy the fact that we will be the last children to finish at Furtherwick Park School. We went to Leighbeck Junior School. We both weren’t born in canvey but Amy was. We came to Canvey when we were in junior school. Taylor – I think that Canvey is a nice place for children to grow up because it is safe and there are things in which they can do. I enjoyed our year 6 production because eve...
When We Were Young
... Ellis’s Memories: My Best Memories was when I used to go up the beach with my mum and dad and playing in the sea. Danielle’s Memories: I remember when I started going to Leigh Beck, my old Junior school, It was a great school, and that was a good memory of Canvey when I was younger. ...
The Seafront
... Sandra Springall My sister and myself spent most of our wages in the Casino back in the early 60's ...
Canvey's Punch & Judy Family
Every sea side holiday resort had a Punch & Judy Show and Canvey was no exception. Paul Capser entertained children on Canvey’s sandy beaches for many years as seen in the photo below. Paul Capser’s Puppet Show at Concord Beach in the 1950’s Paul Capser was born in St Pancaras in 1896 and attended St Giles-in-the-field Boys School. He married Grace Burrell in 1917 at St Pancaras. Paul went off to France to fight in the Great War. After the war Pa...
About us
... Our names are Jamie and Toby, we are 12 years old nearly 13. We like football and golf and we like fishing. One day we was going fishing and at the same we both reeled in a 10 pound mirror carp 🙂 :P. When we was little we had an addiction with cheese. We both play for a football team called Concord Rangers. We have been BMFL!!! woop since we was in playschool. ...
A close call the other side of the wall
... Allan Clark It was nice to read Graham's account of his "near miss" when swimming with me so many years ago. It brought back many memories of the things we did as teenagers and how much more easy going life was in those days! Ray Cornell Oh yes, neck deep in mud. Didn't realise it was full of oil. Couldn't get out, really scared. Finally managed to get to the edge and clawed my way out. Was only 10....
Mrs Laws 'The Poetess'
... cyril mawditt i remember mrs laws i lived opposite where she used to swim ,my mother told me that when she first came to canvey she use to be up to the sea wall but over the years ,she could get there by herself ,i do know she swam all the year round i have seen her swimming in the middle of winter.i also stan pierce the family lived about 300 yrds from us terry pierce i know still lives on canvey, ...
2 - Little Gypps Anti Aircraft Battery
In the Little Gypps area of Canvey Island stood a WW2 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery called ‘TN7 Furtherwick’. There were six gun emplacements, four octagonal positioned in a semi circle facing east and another two that were square. April 2008: Remains at Little Gypps Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Each section had an external integral bomb proof shelter for the gun crew and internal ammunition recesses. The placements were shoulder high and in the cen...
Thorney Bay Army Camp
In 1940 a six pounder Coastal Artillery Battery was constructed at Scars Elbow Point on Canvey Island, its purpose being to guard against enemy torpedo boat raids. Twin hand loaded 6 pounder gun turrets were installed that could deliver up to 100 rounds a minute. It never saw action and was dismantled soon after the war and later abandoned in 1956. Aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1960 show two large gun Casemates 40 yards apart. Rare Photogr...
Canvey's Cold War Magnetic Loop Station
On the east side of Thorney Bay stands a strange looking building next to the former Council Toilets. The building used to have a sign saying “MOD Property” and in the late 1980’s it was still listed in the Private MOD internal phone directory. The building has a balcony that would have had a clear view accross the Thames before the new higher Sea Wall was built in the 1980’s. Feb 2008: Looking South at Canvey Island’s Thorney Bay Degauss Station...
Evidence of Canvey's Sea Wall Pillboxes
As a child I remember where Canvey’s Seawall turns north toward the Lobster Smack Inn there used to be a strange round metal structure that looked like a Parisian Street Toilet. Long gone, probably after the new Sea Wall was built in the early 1980’s, apparently this structure may have been a WW2 Machine Gun Postiion. I have never seen a photograph of it, only the nearby brick Post Box that is now in the Dutch Cottage Museum. Can anyone help? If ...
Canvey's last remaining Pillbox
Looking South towards the Gasworks – The entrance is to the left of the Loop hole I recently discovered to my amazement that there is still a World War 2 Pillbox on Canvey Island. The Island used to have many, mainly on the South Sea Wall, but they were all destroyed when the new wall was constructed in the early 1980’s. I visited on a rainy day on 23rd April 2008 to take these Photos. This Pillbox has the designation number of SMR10798 and is a ...
Just a sojourn on the route of life
I lived on Canvey between September 1980 and June 1982. My first marital home and where my daughter came home to after her birth in November 1981. We lived in a one-bedroom bungalow in Beach Road, off the High Street, when Key Market was my local supermarket. A “Canvey Breakers Association” Sweat Shirt from the time. I remember members used to meet in the Goldmine and later in the Monico. Originaly a ‘Bust Fund’ was set up where members contribut...
The B17 Bomber Crash 1944
I didn’t know it happened on June 19th 1944. I only found out the actual date 54 years later. It was a beautiful summer’s day. A little haze over the Thames, but I remember it was the first time I was conscious of the blueness of sky. Mum had just called me in from playing cricket with Ginger from next door. We lived at the top of Northfalls Road and around the corner in Marine Parade in front of the seawall. I was bouncing the ball along the pat...
The influence of a Crippled Old Lady, Canvey 1940s
In Northfalls Road during the 1940’s and 50’s there lived an elderly lady by the name of Mrs.Laws. She was a cripple. She was a very ‘alone’ lady, but I wouldn’t say ‘lonely’ because she was an educated woman and had a very alert perceptive mind and was extremely well read. In fact, she was the one who made me aware of the difference in these two different states of being. I got to talk to her a lot as a boy by a strange roundabout way of meeting...
The Chapman Lighthouse and the night I nearly died
I was looking in Geoff Barsby’s book on Canvey Island and kept staring at a photo of the Chapman Lighthouse. It shows people paddling out to look at it on the low tide. There is a spot about 50 yards to the left of it that was nearly the death of me. My bedroom overlooked the lighthouse down at Marine Parade so I was more than familiar with it and the mournful sound of its bell when the fog rolled up the river. I used to look at it every day in t...
The Germans on Canvey c1943
This is a memory prompted by thinking of the way my mother reacted to German prisoners of war. She’d seen her house bombed and lost everything, and yet she felt sympathy for these Germans because they were away from their families. A peculiar female thing don’t you think. It was published in the Canvey News. Canvey is a little Island on the Thames. One day on Canvey Island during the war (about 1943) some dozen or so men turned up on the wall and...
Sunny Canvey Seafront
... During the long Winter months it is easy to forget what a jewel in Canveys Crown the seafront area is. Here are some photographs that I took this week (April 2008). ...
1 - Ebenezer Joseph Mather
Headstone in St Katherine’ Churchyard, Canvey Island The grave of Ebenezer Joseph Mather can be found in St Katherine’s Churchyard on Canvey Island. His headstone reads In affectionate remembrance of ‘The fishermen’s friend’ Ebenezer Joseph Mather Founder of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen Called home on Dec 23rd 1927 Aged 78 years Who is Ebenezer Joseph Mather and how did he come to be buried on Canvey? Ebenezer was born on 12...
Canvey Memories
... My memories are about the nice beach and the heat of the sun as you relax and the out door activities. The beach is beautiful with not much rubbish and a lovely food store just on the edge in the perfect spot. You would be able to walk there and get what ever you wanted to eat. But we had some problems before like the flood and the other stuff by Ryan ...
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