St. Katherines & Canvey Village
Known as either Canvey Island’s Heritage Centre or St Katherine’s Church, this building stands proud along Long Road. Towards the second-half of the 19th Century, Victorian …
Prehistoric Fossils at Canvey Seawall
The current seawall that encircles Canvey Island was a late 1970s upgrade to the 1950s wall that was the first to be made out of …
Fielder’s Bungalows on Canvey
Lt. Col. Horace Percy Fielder could be considered the man to whom established Canvey as a residential area. A few decades before, at the turn …
Old Leigh Heritage
The original Leigh settlement was the riverside ‘old town’ which appeared in the Middle Ages. Its narrow cobbled pre-motorcar streets and confined below-mainland position mean …
Remains of Canvey’s Urban History
This page is where we put all our photographs of interesting and historic houses and buildings on Canvey Island that are not known about in …
Kynoch Sewage Work
Coryton was home to an explosives factory in the turn of the 20th Century which you can read about and see the remains of in …