Hello everyone! We have a couple of upcoming events that we would like to invite you do. We will be there showcasing Beyond the Point and showing what local history remains there are. Saturday 27th September 2014 – From 10:30 until 4PM, we will be at the War Memorial Hall on Canvey Island. This…
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3 years on today, tens of thousands of website views later and many more explores on, from when we set up the website in 2011! July 17th 2011 was when we set up this blog, and when we were biking around Two Tree Island, we never would have thought how iconic that day would be….
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June the 6th 1944, shortly after midnight, 24,000 British, US, and Canadian, airborne troops landed in the region of France that the amphibious assault would capture around 6:30 in the morning that day. Allied troops began landed on the 50-mile stretch of perilous beaches of Nazi-occupied Normandy in order to push back the short-lived Nazi…
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The King Canute pub is situated in Canvey village, and has been there in some form since roughly 1867, around the era when Canvey village was being constructed. It’s name was changed from the Red Cow after the 1953 North Sea Floods, hence the new sign in the photograph. Beyond the Point recently interviewed Mr. Ray…
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Last Summer we were awarded the national award of ‘Best Community Archive and Heritage Group’ and ‘Best National Website’ of 2012. Now what have we achieved at Beyond the Point since? First and foremost BTP has noticed a significant increase in publicity. We have featured in the local newspapers, and on several websites and magazines….
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This year will probably be a year like no other for us! The many locations we have been to, awards received and of course the people we have met! It has been an AMAZING year and we are looking forward to another year of exploring, revealing and filming! We have put together a short video…
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Hello everyone! Halloween is soon approaching which means that we will be releasing our Halloween special which is different to last year! We will be focussing on …… wait and see! As you may remember we won the overall award of Best National Community Archive this year, (the picture of the left is a bit…
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Wilko displays the painting of his former secondary school he was presented with. Born John Wilkinson, he changed his name to distinguish himself from the two other Johns in Dr. Feelgood. Recently, Joe and I were privileged enough to be able to speak to Wilko Johnson; legendary guitarist and song-write. Starting of playing for Dr….
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Today marks Beyond the Point’s second birthday. This time two years ago, we had just returned to investigate the semi-buried remnants at the northern-most point of the Occidental Oil-Refinery on Canvey Island, which first sparked our interest when stumbled across the mysterious remains, which we first discovered days after the Royal Wedding of 2011. After…
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Hello Beyond the Point readers, and many thanks for reading this blog post now and my, what an exclusive one it is! A week today Beyond the Point will proudly be celebrating two years of exploring, blogging and filming and it’s been an amazing couple of years! Starting off as just a .wordpress.com blog we…
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