Freedom for Canvey!?$@!? All a bit ‘Passport to Pimlico’ isn’t it…will Wilko need a passport to gig ‘on the mainland’?
First Tooting, now Canvey
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
Well, Canvey always used to be, er, independent. When I was on the buses there are always two routes you didn’t want: the local mental hospital on visiting day, and Canvey Island. ‘Here be dragons,’ my driver used to say.
Strong men used to quaver when the Teds came in from Canvey to Southend on a Saturday night to hear local faves The Whirlwinds. ‘Ere, ‘oo you lookin’ at?’ were words you definitely didn’t want to hear. Dr Feelgood could only have come from Canvey, it was felt when they first appeared.
Never thought of Canvey as the Catalonia of the Thames Estuary, though.
What was felt?
Dr Feelgood could only have come from Canvey, it was felt, when they first appeared.
Mea culpa, I left a comma out. It won’t happen again.
Have you been helping your uncle jack off a horse at all?
It’s been a near thing once or twice.
Collars were felt.
By the “old bill”.
Mebyon Kernow!
If you haven’t seen Oil City Confidential, you really should. Redundant in this company I’m sure…
Canvey has a head start on Barcelona as far as revolution goes. Since the floods of ’53 they have a four metre high wall round most of the Thames side , and only two roads connect it to God’s own Essex, so it would be easier to defend from the pesky interfering “five fingers” on the mainland.
Canvey fact:
Concord Rangers (still in the F.A. Cup and, if they win their replay, at home to Bury!) are nicknamed “The Beach Boys” as they started off in the mid-60s playing on a beach.
Urban myth alert! Have you been to Canvey? Because the biggest “beach” is about ten metres wide 🙂
Now you mention it, the last time I went (about 10 years ago) it was more of a concrete wall, next to concrete paving, next to mud.
That’s the one. Perhaps they did some circuit training – running from the discarded condom to the abandoned shopping trolley and back again, that sort of thing.
Judging from the sign outside the Railway pub in Southend they have already sent advance forces and raised their flag on the mainland.
http://www.railwayhotelsouthend.co.uk/
Here’s a lively appreciation of what makes Canvey Island such a fascinating place, with some outstanding visual effects.
Great effects on the video.
Looks a bit grim to me though.
File under Walsall, independent since 1963 but no-one cares.
Are you confusing Walsall with Kenya?