This is a section for any kind of literature where Canvey Island is written about as fact or a work of fiction. Whether a novel, comics, verse, historical, diaries or letters. These can be a great source of information particularly the ones from the 19th and early 20th century, a great deal can be learnt from them, they are just like old pictures.
North Sea 1953
by Jasper J. Goedbloed
End of a Thames-Side Guardian
published in Sea Breezes 1969
The Little Path to Adventure by Ken Basset
A poem about Ken's memories of boyhood on Canvey
Crimean Relic
Manchester Evening News 19 Sept 1883
"The Tibbett"
Wonder where the flies go
The Most Curious Place In England
By A Goodrich, Photos by C Arthur Person Ltd
The Dutch Chapel
written by John Southerden Burn in 1846
The Rochford Hundred
By Philip Benton 1867
The Boys Own Paper
'Down Stream: A trip in Quiet Waters'
The Essex floods
Canvey Island inundated
The 'Sketch' Sept. 13, 1893
in its 'Small Talk' column had this to say about Canvey:
Fiction
Novels etc that have their setting on Canvey Island
Directories
Post office, Pigots, Kellys and White's Directories
Verse
Printed matter about Canvey Island in verse