Timescapes Castle Point Documentary
From 2024 to 2026, Liam Heatherson of Beyond the Point has been working on a heritage project for the Borough of Castle Point; comprising Canvey …
Canvey Island Urban District Council Office
This building along Long Road was most recently a health centre, but closed in 2018 and has been sitting disused since. It was once perhaps …
Canvey Island Transport Museum
The exterior of the depot in 2025 (top), 2013 (bottom left) and 1990 (bottom right by Frank Whitnell) The Canvey & District Bus Depot was …
Canvey’s Last Civil Defence Siren
Canvey Island’s civil defence sirens – used to warn residents of air raids in WWII, potential nuclear bombs in the Cold War, and flood emergencies …
Little Gypps Furtherwick HAA Battery
Tucked away in the Little Gypps area of Canvey Island is a park known as the Gunny/Gunney, and here there was once a WW2 Heavy …
Canvey’s Last & Lost Pillboxes
In the early Second World War – being 1939 or 1940, a total of nine pillboxes, along with other defences and bunkers, were built across …
Thorney Bay Coastal Defence Batteries
Canvey Island was a fairly quiet area in the 1930s, so when it became heavily militarised to defend against air, land, and sea on the …
B-17 Crash at Canvey Point
The Canvey Archive has a large collection of memoirs, photographs, and by CloudScout” href=”https://beyondthepoint.co.uk/historic-locations/canvey-island/the-second-world-war/b17-crash-site/#48142577″> shared is here: http://canveyisland.org/documents/DHB_v2_Med_Res.pdf On the 19th of June 1944 a formation …
Hester’s Tourist Resort on Canvey
Two busts that stood in ‘Poets Corner’ of the Winter Gardens, today in the Canvey Heritage Centre. Photographs of Frederick Hester, and his monrail before …
Hadleigh Salvation Army Colony
In 1891, the Salvation Army established a Home Farm Colony in Hadleigh where the Hadleigh Downs Country Park lies today. The Salvation Army Jetty was …
Canvey Old Cinema & Rio Bingohall
The cinema was open every day of the week except Wednesday’s and even showed films for children on Saturdays. The building survived the Second World …
The King Canute Pub, Canvey
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 …
Canvey’s Faux Dutch Cottages
Built as a nod to Canvey’s Dutch heritage and the two remaining cottages from the 17th Century, 1930s’ pioneer Lt. Cpl. Fielder built three houses …
Pantile Farm, Canvey
Turn back the clock to 1850 and Canvey Island little more than farmland and a small village, much like the Wild West. Only few of …
The Bay Museum, Canvey
Beyond the Point are good friends and close-working colleagues with the Bay Museum. Like us, they are bringing Canvey’s history into the 21st Century with …
The Atomic Bungalows, Canvey
Walking past these bungalows you wouldn’t think anything of them – they’re just someone’s average home, but the buildings are far from average, they were …
M.V. Bendigo Torpedo Boat
Another vessel involved in the Second World War marooned on Canvey is the M.V. Bendigo. Historian Robin Howie explains: “The M.V. Bendigo was being towed …
Canvey V-2 Bomb Crater
When the land was first bought by the RSPB in 2006, one of their first jobs was to sweep the land to see if any …
The Red Hills, Canvey
(Left) Replica red hill created at RSPB Bower’s Marsh nature reserve, Canvey Island. (Right) An actual site of a Red Hill. A faint hill remains between Waterside …
Proposed United Refineries, Canvey
Two artist’s impressions (top and bottom: graphic or model and painting) of the proposed refinery, the trademark six-legged dog ENI logo and a map showing …
Northwick Farm HAA Battery
Thames North 8, Northwick ( as it was ‘coded’ during the war) was the name assigned to one of the many heavy anti-aircraft batteries across …
Occidental Refinery Jetty, Canvey
The Occidental Jetty is a Canvey Island landmark that we quite admire. It was built with the intention of pumping oil from ships into the …
Canvey Concrete Barge
Ferro-Concrete barges were used to keep artificial ‘Mulberry Harbours’ afloat used by the allies in D-Day as checkpoints in the English Channel. One was thought …
Castle View School, Canvey
Share your memories with us by commenting at the end of the article! Now lying derelict with overgrown grass, collapsed ceilings and smashed windows, this …