Community Forum
We usually post something on BTP twice a week, but did you know that there is an easier way to keep track of whats going on and find out bonus stuff? You can simply visit our community forum, where you can find out about:
- Beyond the Point’s latest news and events
- Our experiences of the local area
- Other people’s experiences of the local area
It’s virtually a free and open resource center! That’s also how you sign up to our BTP newsletter; simply sign up, for free, and you will be notified when it is released! We’ve got out own unique style, customised by us, with hundreds of posts for you read, so there’s plenty of room to add your tales! It covers the whole of Essex, so why not have a look:
www.BeyondEssex.co.uk
Comments
This is a wonderful new resource, especially for old exiled Islanders like myself. The spread of information is amazing and your site splendidly complements the established Canvey Island community site. I shall certainly be a regular visitor and shall alert other ex islanders of my acquaintance to its existence. More power to your elbow!
Tony Maguire
Thanks for that Tonie, please come and sign up and share your memories as well as reading other people’s!
Hello, i have been reading about “the Canvey Island” concrete barge with some intrest,
my neighbor, a 97 year old gentleman, has worked in the cement industry all his life and has in fact been conected with cement before his woeking life, has his farther was a cenent production manager in New Zealand, and where he himself started in the industry, but moved to england just before WW2 to be on the pruduction team down in london area, when War broke out he wanted to join the navy but was prevented at first because he was in a “protected job” with Wood and Steel being in short supply, he was orderd/askd to produce a cement that would be light enough to put into the shape of a bardge, this he obviously managed to do, and his process was coppied all over for the making of barge’s in the early 40′s, also he has told me in his story’s of older days that the name for the barge’s for one became “lighter” again for obvious reasons, So i just thought you would like to know who the Govn’t/ MOD at the time in the late 30′s/ early 40′s should have been thankfull to. Although he lived in New Zealand in his early days he was born in England in northumberland his name :- Mr Ernest Cappstaff, who worked at various cement company’s within England and Wales, being “porched” from company to company and different locations around the Uk within those said companys.with Castle Cement being the/his last company he worked for. like a said he is 97 and for his age has a very sharp mind, although it comes with a rather short memory at times but ask about 30/40 years ago and his eyes light up and there is nothing he doesn’t know about cement prodution.. he was allowed to join the Royal Navy in the end but as a tec, and went all over the world following the americans teaching them about the radio’s and radars’ as well as fixing anything “broken” lol.