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Great to watch puts canvey island and its people in a good light. Short and sweet. And good advertising for canvey and dutch cottage and our history. Well done all. Let’s hope the new generation of canvey community understands our wonderful historical history with a special place in the old mother river Thames. And the thousands of years of history that I am blessed to have found now again over the last 50years!!!! On our special mud flats and fields. With all that history under our feet as we go about our business here.all around our area benfleet and beyond..wonderful when you find things and research the objects..to me and others that’s special to share..makes me proud to be a Canvey born ..well done again done us proud.
Didn’t Rod do a great job.
I played for Mornington from 72/73 under 13 ‘s 14’s & 16’s . Home ground was king George’s and our arch rivals were hills & Kings. John Keely was the year below me and my Dad, Joe Alger, was the chairman from about 75ish onwards. Brian Robinson and I tried to get an adult team into the Sceptre league in the 80’s but they wouldn’t let us in because we were poaching players off of existing teams. We had a great bunch of blokes at Mornington, Malcom Cook, Duncan ‘banger’ Edwards, Brian Gower, Peter Cullen, Alan Nutt and Paul Beaumont to name a few. Happy days
That’s me with norma helping out with the investigation at canvey point in me post war german army shirt with colour flash on sleeve. Getting stuck in. I took part and helped with wood planks for pushing the wheel barrows on because of the sticky mud. It was great to see each generation has used the site for thousands of years. As we were digging it out then cover it as tide came in.then bucket out flooding water and start again.next time. Great people to get knowledge from.margert Payne etc.the main man Neil Faulkner was on a channel 4 time team dig some years later. Over the years have bumped into some of the old canvey point diggers. From that time. Something not mentioned we found when digging that there was a shingle beach that covered a long area like canvey sea front with roman pottery that was covered completely with the mud we see today so 2000 years ago it was beach like hastings has now !!!!! Covered with 3 foot high mud over the completely cover the area of canvey point. Was told at the time its use to be were the boats were pulled up beach. 2000 years ago and iron age Britain..now lost under all the marsh land as we found it when we cut a trench across the mud you see today. Stones and pebbles down there,!!!! Southend priory museum had lots of materials from canvey that must be somewhere to be found.in the Ken crow days who looked after them things at southend museum. As I used to chat to him much was put under stairs out of site.so weres it now.
My dad help build the jetty at Canvey I forgot to say I also won a Bonnie baby contest when I was 9 months old and got a silver spoon for it
I was born in the flat above the riverside cafe canvey July 21 1960 I came back last year and where the cafe stood is a house
A few familiar faces in the 1970s mornington boys . Peter fountain Dean The team I played for included the above. Also from memory Martin Nicholls Paul Foley Terry Eddie tong Robert searle Grant Hancock Mick Martin Brazier
I remember Paul and Michael Lacey also Janet Walden I was at school the same time 1969 – 1974 good times
Ha Ha Thanks Maureen! Never saw you do it but my imagination is running wild!!😄 Tony I checked out that section of fence in front of the Openreach building and the uprights are concrete and I think that the tubes have a slightly smaller circumference. Possibly Long Rd had later replacements cos the wooden uprights had rotted.🤔. Graham.
I remember trying to do somersaults holding onto the poles. I didn’t realise you had to change your grip as you went over so would fall off and land in the ditch.
Thank you David that means a lot.
Those are very poignant pictures, Janet. Our thanks to all three of you for making Dick’s funeral day an even more special event. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for taking the time and the trouble, and for displaying such unmitigated love for the crew and for Dick. Absolutely wonderful of each of you, Janet. Thank you, thank you, thank you. David Tarbox (son in law)
The Welsh lady’s house name would have been spelt Ty Gwyn. ( = White House), pronounced “Tee Gwinn”.
I don’t speak Welsh, but when I was a student in Cardiff, my Hall of Residence was in Ty Gwyn Road, and a fellow Welsh-speaking student explained what this and other Welsh words meant, and how to pronounce Welsh words correctly .
I remember the Cafe Rose from a 1950’s Sunday School outing. We ate our packed lunches in a field next to the cafe, and I think our church had arranged for the cafe to prepare them for us.
I was in Paul’s class too and remember Janet Walden too
Sorry Graham you are incorrect. St Anne’s is in the photo at the back far right.
Yes , this is the end of Gafzelle Dve the house in l/h foreground is ‘ Tyserville’ which still exists in a modernised version, it seems to be obscuring the view of ‘. Kismet’ but Queensbury is vaguely visible in distance ! I can’t see St Annes Church so pre 1910. 👍 Graham.
Yes this is certainly very old probably late 30s( just pre-war) 🤔. I’v checked the Flood photos of the DUKWs based there in the Flood and there is no sign( unintended pun) of the signs in the gable or free-standing so pre- Flood could possibly be when Charringtons took it on, it looks so pristine! Tony, clever observation of the the iron poles that we used to sit on or hang upside- down from😄👍. I think the supports were concrete ? The ones you refer to by the Telecomm building, once more another acute observation! I often use Kitkatts as a short-cut to the Thorney Bay/ Seafront, I’ll check it out next time I pass by. Graham.
Thats an old onethat hedge was ther when i was a youngster but hasnt been there for donkeys years, and the wooden fence with the iron pole through it used to be both sides of road, from the point to Benfleet with a dyke behind it. The only bit left as for as i know is outside Oooenreach telephone base in long road , nearly opposite Fairlop Ave.
I have just been in contact with Mrs Bindoff’s son Laurence who is a Consultant Professor of Neurology at Bergen University in Norway and he has informed me that Mrs B. spent her last years living with her daughter Madeleine in Newcastle and she passed away in 2007. Graham.
Lovely to see the photo of Mrs Stevens, When we were first married we lived in a bungalow “Heathgate” in Landsburg Road. During the winter the unmade road was very muddy, Rene told me I could leave my Wellington boots at hers and change into shoes for work, reversing the process in the evening. I still have the 21st Birthday card from Rene, Charlie, Betty and David. Rene was a lovely lady, I always enjoyed a chat with her when I lived on Canvey, she worked in Chambers Bakery for a time. Is David still on Canvey?
I stand to be corrected but my understanding is that the daughter Maria anglicised to Mary and married Rodney Hall ( whose mother owned Hootons Stores at High St end of Maurice Rd) . From the 1960s Rodney built up the local conglomerate of Halcon companies ( see Ian Hawke’s page on this site) , starting with contracts involved with the refurbishing of Woolworths Stores nationwide. Rodney and Mary had a large upside-down house overlooking the sea-wall at the bottom of Zelham Dve when I lived there in 70s to 90s. Graham. PS. Re Fortuna Stores I delivered there continually from 1961, just getting my brain in gear to make a comment later,🤔
You are very welcome. It is one of thousands of photos saved when the Echo shut their offices in Basildon. They were all going in a skip if we and other local archives had not stepped in. Your comment makes all our hard work worth it.
Hi Janet – This is a photo of my mum and my nan (and Sparky the dog), we didn’t have a copy of this photo and my mum has never seen it before! Thank you so much for posting this, it means so much to see things like this and know more about our family.
Planning for this property was approved 4th July 1934 to A.A. LESADD
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