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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Secret locations, local history, exploring ruins. These phrases capture the essence of what ‘Beyond the Point’ is all about; a website I started about two years ago. So, how did it all begin? I was out exploring with my friend Joe, when I came across a number of strange concrete structures amongst the undergrowth of…
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Thursday 31st January 2013 marks 60 long years since Canvey Island was hit by an abnormal storm causing mass flooding and damage to many many people’s property and lives. The horrific event terrorised Canvey however the whole of the Essex coast was affected as well as other places. Saturday 31st January 1953 began in Essex…
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It is easy to forget the horrors of war, and somehow believe that passing time creates a sort of ‘distance’ between our realities of today and the terrible realities faced in times of conflict. As we experience the present right now, many individuals just like us experienced the present whilst at war, preparing for war,…
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