Welcome to my blog page, here there will be my memories of my teenage years (and another ten untill I left Canvey)living on Canvey Island Essex.
In my eyes boys, and more than likely girls, the teenage years are the most exciting years of your lives , you can do things that the older generation don;t like, experiment with everything and usually get away with it.
This is not your usual blog, I will not be telling you that I had cornflakes this morning and I burnt the toast ,it is a sunny day etc.
Just my memories of what I consider to be the greatest decade of the 20th century, very little unemployment, no drugs ,none of us had heard the word suicide, we fought with our fists and not knives and guns and best of all the plethora of singers and artists ever, thats the 50s
So sit back fasten your seat belts and I will start posting very soon
Eddie
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- Friday, 03. Oct, 2008 @ 07:22:31 pm
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- Saturday, 11. Oct, 2008 @ 04:11:14 pm
Peanuts,
Thanks for putting your blog site on the Canvey Island Org. site... finally I can read all your memories at the one time. Whilst browsing it - the name Barbara Roycroft nee Bones jumped out at me - Her older sister Pat and I were very good pals and I have been trying through various sites, to get in touch with her without any luck. Hopefully if you allow this little message below to be pasted on your site also, I might get lucky this time. Alternative if you could email Barbara and pass my email address on to her? Keeping fingers crossed
TriviaNut
Barbara,
I don't know if you remember me - I was Pat Newman - I have been trying for some years to get in touch with your sister Pat for years - I lived along the road from you - St. Bernards, the first house facing into Springfield Road and Pat and I were good mates at school. I have lived in Australia since 1981 but have been back to Canvey a couple of times since then - most recently July and August this year - and both times tried to find where Pat was. If you can get a message to her so that we can get in touch I would be very grateful.-
- Tuesday, 20. Jan, 2009 @ 07:48:20 pm
Dear Pat
I have seen your p;ost on this site and have passesd it onto Pat. She apparently has tried to get in contact with you but seems to be unable to post e-mail. Hopefully this will be resolved and will see 2009 with two old friends being reunited. Good luck and Happy 2009.
Barbara
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- Saturday, 31. Jan, 2009 @ 11:59:12 am
Thanks Barbara,
Finally got an email from Pat - so we are now back in touch. Things have been extremely hectic here this last week and so I haven't had a chance to respond to her yet, but am just about to as I have a couple of hours up my sleeve today.
Thanks very much for passing the message on to Pat.
Peanuts - G'donya mate for allowing my post on your blog and bringing two old friends together again.
I have just come across your blog and found it fascinating. I have lived on Canvey all my life some 50 odd years. My Granddad was Ted Bones who lived in Rimmington, Lionel Road. We livced at Glenroy Northfalls Road. Reading your blog has brought back so many memories. My sister Past and myself are traving our family history, in doing so have looked far afield at different locations and names. All of a sudden we realised that the main poeple we should be looking at are our parents who have both sadly died. So the next best thing is to look again at Canvey and all the old haunts of our childhood and in finding your blog it has started us off on the right track, thank you. By the way dad was Sidney Bones a local gas fitter with North Thames Gas Board. Keep up the good work and best wishes from good old Canvey.