A walk around Canvey Island - the good and the ugly

[editor]

Some photos from my visit to Canvey Island on the weekend...

http://www.urban75.org/blog/canvey-...ach-a-dr-feelgood-bench-sea-views-and-racism/

 

[Mr Retro]

I enjoyed that. Around about 1979 /1980 when I was 6 or 7 we got the ferry from Cork to Pembroke and drove to Canvey Island for a fortnights holiday in the big caravan park there. Thinking back it was fucking awful but I thought it was beyond exotic at the time.

 

[toblerone3]

Canvey Heights Country Park is the highest mountain on Canvey Island.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

at canvey

and at some of the graffiti

Canvey is also home to quite a nice transport museum, housed in a former 1930s bus depot

their major event of the year is this coming sunday (12 Oct) - parking at the labworth / sea front car park, buses every few minutes to the museum

(not sure this coming weekend will be an 'open top' weekend though)

 

[Lord Camomile]

http://www.urban75.org/blog/canvey-...ach-a-dr-feelgood-bench-sea-views-and-racism/

My best friend grew up on Canvey, and lives there now. Half-Malaysian, she was one of the only non-white children at her school (possibly even the only, but I honestly can't remember if that's what she said).

She's far from delicate, one of the toughest people I know, but it still really saddens me that she might see something like that in a place she calls home

Can still be a nice place to visit though There's a flame that seems to be constantly burning from one of those factories in the distance, always makes me think of Blade Runner

 

[sim667]

This maybe a stupid question...... but where the fuck is canvey island?

 

[fishfinger]

This maybe a stupid question...... but where the fuck is canvey island?

http://goo.gl/maps/seNhu

Near Southend.

 

[el-ahrairah]

This maybe a stupid question...... but where the fuck is canvey island?

essex.

 

[Ground Elder]

Nowhere near Cork that's for sure It's Essex innit.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Some photos from my visit to Canvey Island on the weekend..

http://www.urban75.org/blog/canvey-...ach-a-dr-feelgood-bench-sea-views-and-racism/

Wonder how long that mural's been there? I didn't see it when I visited my brother who used to live there

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

My best friend grew up on Canvey, and lives there now. Half-Malaysian, she was one of the only non-white children at her school (possibly even the only, but I honestly can't remember if that's what she said).

Wouldn't surprise me at all. Going to school in Southend in the 70s/early 80s, there were very few non-whites. I reckon in my school of 500, in my year, I think there was one black girl (and she was from France), one Vietnamese girl (who was a refugee), and half a dozen Asians.