A small contribution to rescue work.
On the morning of the flood my wife returned from an early morning service at St Peters Thundersley where we lived to say that the Rector had informed the congregation of the flood and put out a...
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A night to remember
January 31st/February 1st 1953 The memorial to the victims of the Flood outside Canvey Library A night that changed the history of Canvey. For a week there was a bitter N.E. wind blowing. This,...
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A letter from the Canvey floods
Grandad Frederick Charles Taylor On the early morning of Febuary 1st 1953 the great flood hit Canvey Island causing devastation and taking many lives. Stella Donoghue has kindly sent in this letter...
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I do not know if my memories will be of interest to you. My Dad’s parents Thomas Augustin Heal and Edith Florence Heal lived on Canvey Island on somewhere called Sixty Acres. One of my earliest...
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2 – The Flood
The following excerpt is taken from ‘The History of the Methodist Church in the Southend and Leigh Circuit. Canvey Island,’ written by George Thompson Brake in 1997 and leant to me by Eva Hayes....
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From former BBC producer Anton Jarvis As we approach the 70th anniversary of the 1953 flood disaster on 31st January/1st February I wanted to explain my connection to the event and to share some...
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Having first hand experience of the 1953 floods I have tried many times to find answers as to why the people of Canvey did not get any warning of the impending tidal surge. The UK Meteorological...
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1953 Flood
With any accident or calamity everyone’s memories of the same incident will be different, so these are my recollections and may differ from others or yours. There are however some facts scattered...
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1953
Very many thanks to Jessica Thorndike for allowing us to publish her mum’s story. Gwen is now well into her 90s and is still living on Canvey Island. Gwen kept a diary so when this was written she...
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‘Bobby’ Arnold remembers
Taken near ‘Bobby’s’ home in North Drive Bobby, originally from up north, met her husband Arthur Arnold during the war. They were both in the services, Bobby was in the ATS which she joined when she...
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