The Beach House Restaurant c1955, Canvey Island
The Beach House Restaurant c1955, Canvey Island Ref: C237122
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I'm Only 15 And I Haven't Seen Canvey in Black And White Before
I have never seen Canvey Island when it got hit by the flood in 1959. I know what it did to Canvey but I was looking at the black and white pictures that my grandad showed me and it was different to what it looks like now and I'm only 15 - what a change.
Thorney Bay Beach Camp
My family and I stayed in a caravan at Thorney bay beach camp, oh my god what fun. There was nothing there so you made your own fun. Walking along the sea wall to the funfair every night, and eating saveloy and chips along the sea wall returning to to Thorney bay. I remember my last holiday there when I was 16 and I walked down to the store, bought the Sun newspaper and found out Elvis had died. I spent the rest of the day on the seawall watching the tankers coming and going to the refinery and crying. We would pick winkles and boil them up and sell them around the camp, they still had all the old war buildings and recreated the war.
The owner of the camp came by helicopter and asked if we wanted a flight.
The main bathrooms were right behind our caravan I can still smell them.
And I always knew that the holiday (a month) were over when that smell from... Read more
