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Books : 2008 Calendar :
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Price £12.99
on CD-ROM WITH OVER 180 OLD CANVEY PHOTOS
ideal for schools & colleges to learn about Canvey's
past
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by Geoff Barsby (about the author)
Due to the success of my previous archive publication, I have been asked to produce a second edition. Again containing over 200 old archive photographs, highlighting not only historic sites and buildings of old Canvey, but also clubs and organisations of Canvey's past.
This book is a must for the local historian and expatriates alike to learn about years gone by.
The best yet, an ideal addition to your bookshelf !
Price £10.99 how to order
CANVEY ISLAND
- hardback book
by Geoff Barsby (about
the author)
Currently out of stock
Archaeologists suggest that when the Romans came to Canvey and created
its red hills it was perhaps still part of the mainland, but through the
slow sinking of the land and rising of sea levels had become no less than
five separate islands by Anglo-Saxon times. The creek it shared with neighbouring
Benfleet was deep enough for the keels of Viking invaders. In the Middle
Ages a malarial marshland, was won back from the sea by the enterprise
of the Cavalier, Sir Henry Appleton, with financial and engineering backing
of the Dutchman, Joas Croppenburg. Dutchmen stayed on as farmers and were
an important element in the first real community.
Smugglers too, were an important element in the 18th and 19th centuries.
By the end of the 19th century, trippers had replaced smugglers and the
entrepreneur Frederick Hester was buying cheap farmland to sell off as
plots for holiday homes; he built a spectacular Winter Garden and a tramway
for trippers, but in 1905 he went bankrupt.
In this lively book, the island's entire past is reviewed, from Roman salt-pans to the new sea wall and brought vividly to life in a profusion of remarkable old photographs.
Price £13.99 how to order
by Geoff Barsby (about the author)
Reprint coming soon
The flood of '53....
....they
believed it would never happen again !
This book is a must for school children to research Canvey's past, packed with information and 62 old photographs up to and including the 1953 flood on Canvey Island.
