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Chris and Eddie at Jotmans
03/02/2023
Following the flood event at the library Christopher Starling and Eddie Evans visited their family’s graves at Jotmans.
70th Flood Anniversary 2023
03/02/2023
It was back in 2019 that the seeds for this event were first planted. The Essex Record Office were republishing ...
Leslie's memories of the floods
02/02/2023
Leslie Williams was the son of Gertrude Williams of Whernside Avenue who died in the floods. We were woken up during ...
London Co-op flood plaque
02/02/2023
Val Toop brought this picture in to us on Wednesday. This plaque raises four questions. Where was this? Why was Leonard ...
Two of the new compounds
02/02/2023
70 Years on
02/02/2023
We are holding a large event on the 25th February remembering the flood of 1953. We are joined by Coastwatch and ...
In Canvey Island and Netherlands
01/02/2023
Two photos from Canvey Island and two from the Dutch flood museum.
Ray Howard video about the flood
31/01/2023
Eddie Evans tells her story to the BBC
31/01/2023
Eddie Evans told us her family’s flood story over ten years ago. We have just introduced her to Peter Walker ...
Death by hypothermia
31/01/2023
Part of the above interview pertaining to Canvey Island has been translated below. ‘The weather forecast was bad’, remembers Ray Howard ...
Service of Remembrance at St Nicholas Church.
30/01/2023
On Sunday 29th January Reverend Marion Walford conducted a service of remembrance for those lost and those who survived the ...
Fred West Serial Killer on Canvey 1966?
27/01/2023
Fred West Serial Killer on Canvey 1966? In the summer of 1966 I was 11 years old. My dad often had visions, ...
Bus museum and the 1953 flood
27/01/2023
Main Compound for seawall revetment work
27/01/2023
The Great Tide
27/01/2023
Taken from the EROs blog. October 2018 seems like a long time ago. Our events team was busy planning our ERO ...
Bay Watch this week
26/01/2023
Tuesday’s beach clean was part of a European project sponsored by Case Industrial which is part of CNH. Beaches have ...
St Nicholas Church Flood Remembrance Service
26/01/2023
When the waves came
26/01/2023
Date for your diary. Interviews were arranged by the archive back in December with flood survivors and Patrick Barnard from ...
1953 interviews and documentaries
26/01/2023
From former BBC producer Anton Jarvis As we approach the 70th anniversary of the 1953 flood disaster on 31st January/1st February ...
Memories of the 1953 Flood
22/01/2023
We moved to Canvey from Romford in 1944 because my dad was frightened we’d get bombed out. The story I ...
WVS Report on the flood
20/01/2023
We have recently been very lucky to obtain this booklet which reports about the work of the WVS during the ...
2 - Team2100 January Newsletter 2023
19/01/2023
Death of the last B17 collision survivor
19/01/2023
Richard ‘Dick’ Andrews was a member of the crew of Heavenly Body II, the B17 that crashed into the Thames ...
Flood recollections for the BBC.
13/01/2023
Recently the Archive received a request to interview Islanders who had memories of the Great Flood. We passed the information ...

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