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Bear up! Canvey will live again.
21/02/2022
I wish that the world had a thousand eyes so that it could have seen what my eyes saw yesterday ...
The Stay Put Wyatts of Canvey Island
21/02/2022
The stay-put Wyatts—Mr. and Mrs. J. Wyatt. of Greenfield, Canvey Island — row around their home to-day surveying the damage. ...
On the island of death - They lived
21/02/2022
As the flood waters covering Canvey Island partly subsided today, search continued among the wrecked bungalows for the missing who ...
Farmer Leach is general in battle of the 25 gaps
21/02/2022
To-day I met the man who is the driving force behind the immense effort being made to save Canvey. Farmer ...
School Attendance at the Village school 1900s
19/02/2022
In the early 1900’s the Village school was located opposite the Church. At this time the other end of the ...
1910 School Inspection
19/02/2022
The 1910 School Inspection was less than complimentary. The main problems being accountable to the lack of size of the ...
Dearest Gwen
18/02/2022
This is a letter I managed to find sent to Gwen Evans by her brother Alleyne. Although not directly about ...
Canvey Transport Museum - A hopeful peep into a new year?
17/02/2022
January 2022, a new year begins and it’s time to start tentatively planning for the future (with fingers tightly crossed!). Here ...
Floods caused enormous damage
17/02/2022
These are the Canvey pictures from the middle page spread of the Southend pictorial dated 6th February 1953.
Other front page photos from 6th February 1953
17/02/2022
Orphan of the flood
Flood water is receding on Canvey
17/02/2022
Article in the Southend Pictorial 6th February 1953 Inch by inch the water recedes on Canvey Island today (Friday), six days ...
Wilfred Pickles interviews victims
16/02/2022
The following was recorded in the 6th February edition of the Southend Pictorial. To bring home to the public the real ...
Wireless message gave first news of disaster
11/02/2022
It was at about 1 a.m. on Sunday that a voice crackling from the radio receiver at County Ambulance H.Q. ...
'Full Stop' - Leigh Beck
11/02/2022
This is a property in Leigh Beck called ‘Full Stop’. Martyn Kaye’s grandparents, Stanley and Edith Kaye, lived there in ...
Pitiless grey dawn lit up the Island of tragedy
10/02/2022
The experiences of the Pictorials reporter David Jones Canvey Island, Sunday. Stark terror struck at Canvey Islanders early this Sunday morning. An ...
Ten hours' wait before rescue
10/02/2022
The story of how they spent 10 hours—which felt as long as 10 weeks—in the attic of a bungalow where ...
Town and Country Hard Hit
10/02/2022
Canvey Island photos from the centre pages of the Southend Pictorial Flood Disaster Supplement. Photos on the ground on Canvey ...
Bulging with evacuees
09/02/2022
The Exchange Telegraph reported last night that South Benfleet was bulging with evacuees from Canvey Island. By 8.30 p.m. 7,000 people ...
'Pictorial' reporter joins in the Island rescue work
09/02/2022
After hearing an appeal for relief volunteers, ” Pictorial” reporter D. E. Don, of Rectory Grove, Leigh, joined a party ...
Leigh boats played a big part in rescue operations
09/02/2022
Residence of Old Leigh fought three battles in the drama. First, they fought against the worst flood of the century during ...
Two trips to the Island
09/02/2022
One of the men who answered the appeal for the “little boats” to take off survivors from Canvey was Mr. ...
Canvey a Second Lynmouth
09/02/2022
These photos are from the front page of the Southend-on-sea and County Pictorial Flood Disaster Supplement published the day after ...
St Katherine's Lodge comes to the rescue
07/02/2022
At the flood exhibition we were handed a large quantity of newspapers from 1953 that covered the flood. Some local ...
Memories of Harry Fowler
06/02/2022
Film actor Harry Fowler attended the Carnival Queen selection at the Casino Ballroom during August 1959. The ‘Red Diamonds’ rock ...

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