Merry Christmas BTP fanboys, fangirls, urbexers, local historians, photographers, and movie makers. If you’re at school or college, then its Sunday before we go back for one last week. If you’re not in education, then, well, it’s still Sunday. Therefore, to cheer you up, we made this short movie to entertian you. It features the…
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Thursday 31st January 2013 marked 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. On the night of 31st January 1953…
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On September 17th, Liam & I gave a talk to the The Distaff Club (a very kind Women’s club!) about Beyond the Point, our work and local remains. Lasting about an hour and a half, we educated the club (and got educated a bit!) It was a wonderful evening. Liam and I spoke about local…
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TWO teenage history fans hope to bring the past into the present for people on Canvey after launching a website in their spare time. In between studying for their GCSEs and enjoying other hobbies, friends Joe Mander and Liam Heatherson, both 15, found time to set up Beyond the Point just over a year ago….
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The Bay Museum now has a new site, made by the BTP Boys on WordPress. Visit it here http://the-bay-museum.co.uk/. The old site was made from scrath and so was too difficult to update, plus it was left incomplete anyway, so we were asked to create them a new one. What’s more is Beyond the Point…
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We are soon to release our DVD documentary on Canvey Island and we gave Janet Penn a copy to write a review! Janet kindly wrote an article on the Canvey Island Archivewebsite. In the article she said: Well done boys, do I see a TV careers in the offing? BTP Joe filming for the documentary…
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Yes, the big round number, 10,000, is how many website views that Beyond the Point has received since it’s launch 9 months ago! It’s extremely re-assuring and encouraging for us to know that people like the content that we are writing about. We have received fantastic support from local magazines such as ‘Love Canvey‘ and ‘Your Canvey‘,…
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2012 gets off to a good start with Beyond the Point being very popular. Our current website stats are 55 on average a day which is really great and encouraging for us! This could be partly due to Beyond the Point being mentioned in the popular ‘Your Canvey‘ For those of you that aren’t familiar…
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Christmas is coming as is pretty obvious, although you’re going to have to take a look at the site tomorrow if you want to receive a true Beyond the Point Merry Christmas, complete with a present for all… Come back tomorrow and all will be revealed! For now I’d like to thank Tom Jea (who…
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4.5So here we are, on the 1st of December. Now we can all feel free to roll on the tunes and put up the decor… It’s Christmas! Are you opening that flimsy cardboard flap to pull out a 3mm thick 0.1% cocoa chocolate (if I can even call it that), just like every day and year gone…
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