My Canvey memories 1948 to 1970

In response to: "Introduction" 295 days old
by Trish Nicholls [Visitor]

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.

Peanu more…

In response to: "Introduction" 305 days old
by Barbara Roycroft (nee Bones) [Visitor]

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 more…

In response to: "Part 18" 311 days old
by Peter Etherington [Visitor]

Thanks Eddie

My mum and dad moved from Forest Gate to Canvey just two weeks before the start of WWII and, like you, some of the best memories are of growing up on the 'Wonderful Island'. I was three years old at the start of the war and left in 1958, when I was twenty-two, to get married. Mum and dad lived there for another thirty plus more…

In response to: "Introduction" 406 days old
by Trish Nicholls nee Pat Newman [Visitor]

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 more…

In response to: "Introduction" 414 days old
by Barbara Roycroft nee Bones [Visitor]

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 more…

In response to: "a Part 4 First job" 871 days old
by Dave Bullock [Visitor]

Great memories!
Re The Wireworks factory in Yamburg Road. I have recently been told this used to be a Fire Station before the war? more…

In response to: "A Part 1 " 884 days old
by grumpus ^Pro

Great reading, Eddie. I went to Canvey Island for my first family holiday in about 1947. We stayed in a kind of pre-fab 2-room shack all on its own in the middle of a hay field. The plot was marked by a rough wooden fence about 18 inches high which also enclosed what we called the "Pantechnicon", an old horse-drawn covered cart which contained two more…