In this section you can read stories about Canvey's past.
The Excavation of a "Red Hill" on Canvey Island
By Warwick J. Rodwell, F.S.A.(Scot.) dated 1966
Archaeological Remains of Pantile & Tree Farm
Includes video documentary & previously unseen remains
Canvey Map 1898
Showing Sunken Marsh and Newlands
Canvey Map 1793
Freehold and Third Acre
Excavations at Canvey Point
Booklet printed 1982 Compiled by P J Johnson
El Monico?
Problem??? No Problem
The Chalet, Leigh Beck
Drawn by Frank Lansdown
What's in a Name?
Why 'Admiral Jellicoe?
William Usher Carey
The last Proprietor of the Old Red Cow PH
Thomas William Stanford
Proprietor Red Cow PH 1917-1929
Leslie Claxton
Claxton married Aldridge
Get your tents here!
Thorney Bay campsite
Remembrance Day
With Fred McCave
Clifton Estate
Documents from 1928-33
Coronation Party
Carole Peck nee Disney
Fielder's Post War Camp
Bring your own accommodation
Porch in Memory of Mother
Chelmsford Chronicle January 1950
Canvey - Benfleet Crossing
From Dowd's Canvey Cyclopaedia
The Atomic Bungalows
Long Road/Miramar Avenue
Clement's Dairies
Proprietors Ernest and Maud Clement
W. J. Tibbett Jnr Builder's Merchant
An advert from the 1925 Canvey Official Guide "Charming Cheerful Canvey"
The SS Benmohr
and the cement barrels
1720 map of Canvey
from an Essex map by Robert Morden
Map of Canvey 1780
from a map of Essex by Emanuel Bowen, c.1780
Map of Canvey Island 1648
from Joan Bleu's 1648 Essex map
The Swallows Childrens Home
Postcard from Jill Goodchild
Cottage of St Hugh
aka Riverside Café
Murder at Canvey?
Human Bones Found
The Canvey Supply Company
Fred McCave's article in the Bulletin 1980
Canvey Islanders take to the boats
Protest against the oil refinery 1973
Old Canvey Maps
Canvey Village
Beach House
Looking North
Captain Voss and Tilikum
The circumnavigation of the world in a 38 foot long first nation dug-out canoe
The Lobster Smack
During the 1930s
The Invasion of 1667
The story of a Dutch attack on Canvey Island
A Cafe at Canvey Island
The Architect and Building News 1934
Canvey's freshwater flood in 1968
The Gafzelle Drive ferry service.
Peerless and Unic
Do you remember them?
Eagle Steamers
Stevens local agent
The Keil Family
Canvey's connection to the famous KeilKraft Kits aircraft scale model-makers.
Frost Aid Begins At Home
Advert in Captivating Canvey 1958-9
Sequel to Canvey Island Made History
Canvey Methane Terminal Inground Tanks
The Ozonia Saga
Recollections of Ozonia by Harry Russell
1792 Act ; Original Copy.
''An Act for more effectually embanking etc "
Old Canvey Adverts c1950
Some names are well known some not
Claxton's Advert
Essex Countryside July 1977
Wildfowl and Zeppelins
the story of wildfowling on Canvey Island
Swing Bridge, Canvey Island
Questions in the House of Commons
Crisp Molineaux Harridge 1788-1863
Publican at Sluice Inn (Lobstersmack Inn)
Magic Lantern Slides
Local cinema adverts from the late 30s
Canvey Island
First House?
Frank Saul
Spurs Footballer
Canvey Demonstration in London 1973
Protestors storm the E.N.I building
Canvey Clay Pottery
Written by the author of 'Invaders of Canvey' Olivia Whitcomb, B.Ed Hons.
The Hotel Monico
Its Illuminated inn sign used for navigation
"The Hills"
and the striped buildings
The Song of Canvey
Sung by the Dutch to Sir Cornelius Vermuyden
The Deep Water Docks schemes
Sale of part of the Spitty Estate
Canvey Island Methane Terminal
Photos taken from PS Waverley
"Nieuwe Harlingen Courant", 14.10.1932.
Published by Fred McCave in The Bulletin in 1983
Canvey Island Sea Wall
by Herbert Price Powell Esq from the 1931 Canvey Guide
Canvey Island's Institutions
Originally published in the 1931 Canvey Island Guide
Mr Joseph Hills 1816-1909
Illustrated by Tom Merry
Canvey District Nursing Association
Affiliated to the Essex County Association
Kate Carney visits Canvey
Music hall singer and comedian
Canvey Island and its Churches Price 6d
Published in 1947 By W Marston Acres with Illustrations
The 'Sketch' Sept. 13, 1893
in its 'Small Talk' column had this to say about Canvey:
The Naturalist on the Thames
published in 1902 possibly written c1896 by C.J. Cornish (1858-1906)
Andromeda, an Idyll of the Great River
A novel By Robert Buchanan, published 1900
Harold Allpress Thomas
Founder of Whittier Hall
Knightswick Farm in 1913
Southend & Westcliff Graphic (Friday, 8th August 1913)
A Cartoon from 1969
Signs of the times
Cricksea aka Greenglades
Pictures of this High Street Cafe
Underwoods - The Benfleet Slipway
Boat building and repairing by the Creek
Musings on old pictures
A look at old Postcards
A Canvey Mystery
Snow-White the Red Cow
Maurice Blackford RN 1873-1933
Served on HMS Orlando during the Boxer Rebellion
The Susannah Howard Stone
Thames Hoymen and Lightermen
St Katherine's Churchyard
'Pages' of Canvey's History
Wreck Hall - Farm of 'A Thousand Years'
An extract from 'Canvey Island - A History'
Oysterfleet Farm
A story of Canvey folk
Wreck(Rack) Hall Farm and the Morley family
The Canvey-Stoke Newington-Canvey connections
Ferry Tales
Problems of being an Island