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Canvey Carnival Princess Kerry Thomas
... Barbara Roberts I was in Georgette Juveniles during the mid sixties. We used to go on a Saturday morning to the British Legion in Denham Road. Queenies son Kevin used to be one of the only boys in the troupe at the time. I remember being very shy when having to go on stage. Unfortunately I dont think my parents took any photos of me appearing.... ...
1 - The Canvey Cyclopaedia
David Dowd presented me with his unpublished Canvey Cyclopaedia some years ago. It is a very comprehensive collection of facts, of great use to everyone interested in Canvey Island. The following is from the book’s foreword:- The author’s reason for writing this book is that he lived with his family in pleasant surroundings on Canvey for about nine years during the ’Seventies – the most enjoyable period of his life. At this time large areas of th...
Canvey District Nursing Association
... Pam I think I might have been born at Eden Lodge on Canvey and wonder if anyone has any information about it. Or about Mrs Horn. Pam Martin Lepley Eden Lodge was down Ouida Road. In 1929 Frank George MILES & Margaret MILES was living there. Graham Stevens Update on text above: It appears that the Stevens family had some form of residence from c. 1907-8. Graham....
Croppenburg Lake and Island Farm
These photos were taken by my wife, Sandra’s Uncle, George Spires. Sandra’s family, the Jessens lived in Orrmo Road, which runs from Smallgains Avenue right up to the Lake, opposite Island Farm. (The Jessen family and Lil Spires can be seen in the gallery below.) Swans on Croppenburg Lake From 1923 to 1926, Island Farm was the home of my mum, then Kay Porteous. She lived at ‘Mispah’ one of the two bungalows on the site, with her mother, older sis...
When I grow up
Doris at 90 Children are often ask ‘what would you like to do when you grow up?’. This is an age old question asked of young people. I wonder how many of these ambitions are fulfilled. When I was a little girl we did not think too far into the future. Sixth Form College was yet to be and University education was only for the wealthy. My early childhood was marred by World War I. The like of which had never been known before – such as aerial bomba...
Flooded but not sunk
January chilled the River Thames, Had blanched its summer blue to pewter grey, Swirling into creeks, round grassy stems It filled and overfilled each waterway. Lithe as a writhing serpent’s scales and skin It crushed the tidal barriers, to break The Island’s bones, and finally rushed in, Bringing death and chaos in its wake. Streets turned into rivers, houses seemed Like boats, as waves licked walls and seeped in doors, Damply rousing residents w...
Christmas's Past
HUMBUG That is what Scrooge, the miserable old miser in Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol, thought about Christmas. Old and alone he was haunted by the ghost of his late business partner – Marley, who after pointing out his misery, showed him a better way and Scrooge ended up a happy man. What is humbug, other than a stripped hot peppermint sweet. The dictionary tells us – something intended to deceive, a hoax, a nonsense, hypocrisy. In all not...
The Boys Brigade at Leigh Beck Baptist Church
This is an article written by Doris Flaherty in 2001 to celebrate the 118th anniversary of the Boys Brigade. Great Oaks from little acorns grow This year we celebrate the 118th anniversary of the Boy’s Brigade by William Smith. He was later Knighted. From its small beginning as a Bible Class in a Glasgow suburb, the Boy’s Brigade (BB) spread rapidly throughout the country and through the world, and its membership included men who rose to places o...
Memories of a Canvey Poet
... Roy mitchell Dave Proudfoot is my uncle Howard embery I am Howard Embery and we moved to Truro in 2017 If someone could reach out to a Katie and send her our twitter page for the book club I run here in Truro it is @tregollsc It would b3 great to reacquaint...
A Topographical Dictionary of England. 4 Volumes
... David Bullock I take it "Leigh Marsh Island" is what we now know of as Two Tree Island. Janet Penn Yes it is. If you look in Robert Hallmann's book page 108, he has a map showing Leigh Marsh. ...
Kate Carney visits Canvey
Kate Carney Kate Carney was a famous singer and comedian who played the music halls in London. She was born Catherine Mary Pattison and her birth was registered, September quarter 1869 in the Newington District of Surrey. She first appeared as Kate Carney at the Albert Music Hall in Canning Town, singing Irish songs and became known as the ‘Coster Comedienne’. She appeared in the Royal Variety Performance in 1935. Following the death of her husba...
An Island Against the Sea
Living on an island had always made us both feel special. My sister and I knew that our island wasn’t especially beautiful; it certainly didn’t have palm trees and golden sands like the islands in our geography books. None of this made any difference to us – we just loved living on Canvey Island. 1948: Shirley and Sandra Hollingbery Our little Island was only seven miles long and just three miles wide and lay in the river Thames in Essex. Life on...
1964 School Photo
... Hi, The attached photo was taken in 1964. I am in the photo, are you? ...
Canvey on Sea
... This 1920-39 art deco Pigeon made in Germany was recently for sale on Ebay. ‘A present from Canvey on Sea’ A Pin cushion Pigeon approx 3.5ins Published by permission of Josordoni Collectables ...
The Bindon, Hollingbery & Thomas families on Canvey
1939 Walter and Gertrude Bindon and their kiosk at Seafront The Bindon family moved to Cambridge Rd on Canvey Island from Walthamstow as my grandmother Gertrude was suffering severe ill health. In time she opened a small kiosk at the seafront which exposed her to plenty of fresh sea air – helping her lung condition. My grandfather Walter Bindon worked for the London Electric Company until he retired. Their son Walter emigrated to New Zealand in 1...
Pigot's Essex 1832-3 Trade Directory
Pigot’s Directory CANVEY ISLAND lies against Benfleet and Hadleigh, encompassed by branches from the river Thames; from the above villages there is a passage to it over the strand, at low water. It is about five miles in length and two in breadth, comprising about 3,600 acres. It is no parish of itself, but is chiefly connected with Benfleet, although it pays rates to eight other parishes. It has a chapel, and about 50 houses. The POPULATION of t...
Kelly's Directory of Essex
Kellys Essex Directories The first part of all directories are almost identical, they read as follows: Canvey Island, which is united to South Benfleet at low water by a causeway across Hadleigh Ray, was formed into a civil and ecclesiastical parish in 1881 and was originally part of the parishes of Bowers Gifford, Hadleigh, North Benfleet, Laindon, Pitsea, Prittlewell, South Benfleet, Southchurch and Vange: it is supposed by some to be the Couno...
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales. Vol. one
The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales is a substantial topographical dictionary first published between 1870 and 1872, edited by the Reverend John Marius Wilson. It contains a detailed description of England and Wales. Its six volumes have a brief article on each county, city, borough, civil parish, and diocese, describing their political and physical features and naming the principal people of each place. Canvey-Island , a chapelry in Bill...
Post Office Directory of Essex
Post Office Directory 1871 CANVEY ISLAND, which is united to South Benfleet at low water by a causeway across Hadleigh Ray, it is in the parishes of Bowers Gifford, Hadleigh, North Benfleet, Pitsea, Prittlewell, South Benfleet, Southchurch, and Vange; it is the Convennos of the ancient geographer Ptolemy, and is a marsh island of the Thames, defended by high banks all round, erected in 1623; it forms a very rich grazing ground, on which many catt...
The land of Cana's People
The land of Cana’s people once, Now overspill from London, Commuter belt, with District Council, Commonplace and humdrum. Shops in ranks in a covered walk That could be anywhere, Any centre, any town, Plate glass, and built all square. Fields once tilled by Holland’s men Now rafts for house foundations, A creeping mould of red raw bricks And drab grey cementations, Eating up the fields of hay That once fed London’s horses, Replacing rambling farm...
A special message just for Canvey Archive
Bernard Durrant who lived on Canvey for a while in the 20/30’s, is a Novelist and Poet in his 90s. I asked him if he would write something to add to the Archive and this is what he sent. You can read some of Bernards book ‘The Dark Mirror, a word cycle’, which contains memories of Canvey here. Bernard died in 2013 and is buried in Southend. How can magic be put into words! But wait – here are some memories of Canvey from early 1920s. You want me ...
Majorettes in the Canvey Carnival 1980
Once again I found some interesting clips of old cine films c1980, this time of some Canvey Majorettes. My daughter, Lesley was one of them, but try as we might we could not remember the name. They met every week in the Catholic Church Hall and during the season were in the Canvey and Southend-on-sea Carnivals. Several weekends we would meet up in the Wind ammer car park or sometimes the Waterside Sports Centre car park where the girls would go o...
Paintings of the Lobster Smack 1910-1914
Charles Pears 1873-1958 Charles Pears , an English painter, born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, on 9 September 1873 to George William Pears and Sarah Mary Gott. Charles started his working life as an assistant in his father’s Tailor and Hatters shop in Tanshelf, Pontefract where he can be found at the age of 17 in the 1891 census. He was educated at East Hardwick and Pomfret College. He specialised in marine scenes and was later appointed the first pr...
Waterside Farm Sports Centre 1976
I moved from London to Canvey in 1976 on April Fools day of all days. I am sure you remember the year, wall to wall sunshine, very hot when the roads started melting and NO rain for weeks. (Excuse me while I dream of hot sunny weather and no rain…………….) _________________________ It was also during the hot summer of that year that Waterside Farm Sports Centre was officially opened. I recently found some old cine film that I took at the event and h...
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