Your Canvey December 2010

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Welcome to the December issue of Your Canvey Magazine!

We would like to wish all our readers and

advertisers a very Merry Christmas and a

Happy New Year. Thank you all for your

continued support for Your Canvey Magazine

which is now into it’s fourth year.

We are looking forward to 2011 with some

changes to the magazine which will include

more articles and more local information. This

magazine is here to support our community,

so if you have anything you would like to

share with local residents, please do not

hesitate to give us a call on 01268 696404 or

e mail [email protected]. We

would love to hear from you.

See you next year!

Graham and Angela OwenGraham and Angela OwenGraham and Angela OwenGraham and Angela Owen


Are you ready for Christmas? Are you so

organised that you bought everything in the

January sales for gift-giving twelve months

later? If you answered “yes”, then there’s

no need to read on. However, if you’re like

me, Christmas has once again taken you

completely by surprise. I suspect we all go

into denial at the point when the first

Christmas decorations arrive in the shops

around about August!

Normally we’d panic and snatch the first

vaguely suitable gift from the nearest

available shop. But wait! Last minute gifts

are never well thought out, are they? The

adage “it’s the thought that counts” is

actually incredibly important. People would

rather receive a small, carefully chosen gift

than a hastily grabbed box of bath products

that scream “this will do”!

Don’t panic. Most shops will be open on

Christmas Eve, so you can really leave it

until the absolute last minute if you plan a

little first. Make a list of who you need to

buy for and spend time really thinking

about those people. What do they like?

What would they appreciate? Keeping the

recipient in mind and choosing a thoughtful

gift is the only way to succeed at this late

stage.

Some people are just downright

impossible to shop for which is why

you’ve put off buying anything until

now. In this case, present them with a

written promise to take them shopping

for something they really want. For some

people it really is better to get their input

before buying.

Another heartfelt refrain is “what do I get

the person who has everything?” The

answer is… a box to put it all in.

Whether this is an unusual jewellery box,

a useful sewing chest or colourful,

personalised storage containers for children,

you can’t go wrong with an attractive box.

Donate the gift of your time. Offer to

babysit so parents can take a well-deserved

break. Spend a day gardening for someone.

Buy tickets for a concert, cinema, sporting

event or a play and take the family.

Organise a surprise weekend break or

holiday and present the tickets on Christmas

Day.

Bring some nostalgia to Christmas with

family-friendly board games. Introduce

extra food with a gourmet gift hamper. A

beautiful tree ornament will hold memories

every year when it comes out again.

Students will always appreciate money.

Don’t even attempt to work out what the ‘in

-thing’ is as it will surely change next week.

If you’re still stuck, there are always gift

vouchers. Spa-breaks, restaurant vouchers,

experience days, animal adoption and

cookery courses are unusual vouchers to

give.

Last minute Christmas gifts don’t have to

come from the shops. Use your imagination

and take some time to think about what they

would really welcome. Have a happy and

stress-free Christmas!

It’s not too late to find the perfect gift


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Next spring, local

resident Teresa Chuter

will be heading off on the

adventure of a lifetime to

make a difference to the

lives of local children.

Teresa lives on Canvey Island and runs a

local business - All Occasions Catering. She

will be trekking the Inca Trail for the Have a

Heart campaign which works to help local

children who are vulnerable, suffer from

illness or are deprived of the childhood that

every child deserves.

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Age Concern Canvey Island is run entirely by volunteers and has an office based in the Paddocks which is open from 10am to 1.30pm every day.

The staff at the office are available to answer

any questions you may have from

completing your pension forms to finding a

reliable tradesman. They can advise on a

whole range of problems and also have a

solicitor available once a month who can

help you free of charge.

For some ten years now, Age Concern have

run a luncheon club on the Island twice a

week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Members

meet in the main hall of the Paddocks in

Long Road, Canvey Island from 12.30pm to

enjoy friendship, a lunch, raffle and bingo.

Outings, holidays, parties, theatre visits and

other functions are frequently organised and

are very well supported. There is also always

a Christmas and Easter party for members.

The Chair-person, Dot Axford, works very

hard organising as many different events as

she can to make member’s lives more

enjoyable despite their age. Some of the

members are over 90 and still going strong!

You are guaranteed a warm welcome so pop

along and join them!More information is

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East Neighbourhood Forum had just

over £34,000 in their budget to spend this

year. This amount had accrued from previous

amounts not being fully spent or allocated for

projects.

The councillors from the three wards have

been asking residents at neighbourhood

meetings and on ward walkabouts to come up

with ideas on how they would like to see the

money spent. (NB. Neighbourhood forum

money can only be spent on items within the

wards community and can be spent on

community safety and pride so long as there

are no ongoing and maintenance costs).

We already had several projects agreed that

have been put forward and a power point

presentation to show these will be on the

Agenda at the February meeting.

At the neighbourhood meeting on the 4th

November a suggestion from residents was

put forward. They have asked for the area

near Leigh Beck playground to be made more

welcoming for parents to enjoy with their

children. Picnic benches and seating have

been suggested to us along with trees to help

break up the landscape. We have therefore

allocated £10,000 for these improvements

based upon costings obtained from

Castle Point Council. This allows us 12 trees

with wire protection round truck to be

planted, 4 picnic tables and 4 benches to

be installed, all with concrete base.

Unfortunately costs are higher than

people expect, for example bases cost

£400. Any money that is left over from

this allocation will of course be put back

in the pot for other projects coming

through. Please be aware that you can

send in your ideas to me for projects as I

am the Chairman for this year. Input is

always welcome and all suggestions are

discussed and taken forward wherever

possible each year. Cllr Janice Payne.

Sheltered Accommodation

Work at the sheltered accommodation on

Canvey continues. Sweetbriar Lodge is almost

finished and work has now started on Amelia

Blackwell. CPBC have supplied the paint,

Crown College painted the entrance areas and

have made notice boards and bird tables for

each of the sheltered accommodation homes.

Community Payback teams from Essex

Probation are working hard in the homes

painting communal areas and tidying gardens.

Canvey Island West Neighbourhood has

approved a £1000 grant for garden

improvements and Canvey Island Town

Council awarded a £500 Grant for a 50''

Coloured TV for their communal lounge. If

there are any company's who would like to

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Concord Rangers Football Club wishes all its

supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New

All our fixtures and results can be found on

our website but here is a list of the games we

have coming up this month.

Sat 4th December - Away - Kingstonian

Sat 11th December - Away - Carshalton

Athletic

Sat 18th December - Home - Bury Town

Mon 27th December - Home - Canvey Island

Sat 1st January - Away - Lowestoft Town

Sat 8th January - Home - Hendon

We look forward to seeing you all!

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There are many people in the history of Canvey Island who have worked to make the Island a better place. One of those was Miss Clara James (above) who, amongst other things, founded

the Canvey Island Women’s Institute.

Clara James was born in 1866 in Kent and

went on to become a passionate campaigner

of Women’s Rights. She joined the

Women’s Trade Union Association in 1889

and worked tirelessly to improve the lives of

deprived young girls working in London.

Miss James was a trained

gymnastics teacher and set up her

first Working Girls Club. The

clubs became very popular and

helped her to gain the trust of the

girls - it was not unknown for her

to have 300 attendees a week over

the six clubs she ran.

She first discovered Canvey

island in 1905 when she visited

for a holiday to help her own ill

health. She believed that Canvey

would provide the perfect

atmosphere for the working girls and

decided to open a holiday rest home for

them.

She finally opened the large wooden house

known as “The Girls’ Bungalow” in 1909

and it provided a holiday home for the sad,

weary girls of London until the start of the

first World War. If they ran out of space

inside the house, Clara would pitch tents in

the garden so that no-one had to miss out on

the opportunity of a holiday where they

could relax in the fresh air, have a good time

and be well fed.

Miss James also threw herself into other

aspects of Canvey life. She founded the

Canvey Labour Party and became a member

of the Canvey Urban District Council. She

also went on to become a JP. She was also

involved for many years with the Girls’ First

Life Brigade and the Nursing Association.

She became a founder member of Canvey

Island’s Women’s Institute and was both the

president and trustee. Her photo still hangs

on the wall in the WI Hall in Lionel Road.

Clara James died in 1954 leaving an adopted

son, Peter.

To find out about more influential characters

from Canvey Island’s history, visit

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The Girl’s Bungalow - Photo courtesy of www.canveyisland.org


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Canvey Island Youth Project will be on the road throughout this winter with its outreach programme across Castle Point, thanks to local schoolchildren.

A donation of £211 will help with running

costs and supplies over the colder months.

The money was raised at an under-14s disco,

arranged by Pubwatch and supported by Essex

Police and Castle Point Community Safety

Partnership (CSP) to show youngsters that

drink was not necessary for having a fun time.

More than 80 pupils from Cornelius

Verymuyden and Castle View schools

attended the event at CK Bar, Charfleets,

which brought the curtain down on Drinkwise,

the annual alcohol awareness campaign co-

funded by the CSP.

Morrisons, Canvey Island, supported the event

by generously providing soft drinks, juices

and water for the alcohol-free evening and

members of Pubwatch donated the raffle

prices.

Cllr Cliff Brunt, Chairman of the Castle Point

Drug & Alcohol Reference Group who run the

Drinkwise campaign said: “The evening was a

great success and the youngsters had a

wonderful time and thoroughly enjoyed

themselves. I am sure that they’ll

have many happy memories of

the event and that when they are

older they’ll look back on it as a

stepping stone in their developing

a sensible attitude to drink and

alcohol.

“Pubwatch, police and CSP are to

be congratulated in coming

together to stage this event.

Thanks are also due to the CK

Bar, Morrisons and the many

members of Pubwatch without

whose support the evening could

never have got off the ground.”

The CIYP bus makes weekly visits to known

nuisance hotspots across Castle Point. It gives

youth workers and the Essex Young People’s

Drug and Alcohol Service a mobile base to

engage with young people.

Corinne Wheeler, CIYP coordinator said:

“The bus enables us to greatly extend our

work by allowing us to get out to trouble spots

and engage with young people directly,

providing information, advice and where

necessary counselling on alcohol and other

issues.”

In addition to the outreach programme, the

charity offers a free and confidential service

for all young people at their drop-in centre in

the St Nicholas Centre, Long Road.

They can advise on things like claiming

benefits, finding somewhere to live, getting a

job, filling out forms, writing letters,

education, and other concerns young people

may have. They give information about drugs

and alcohol and can offer counselling to

young people and their family or friends.

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Canvey Island Football Club

would like to wish everyone

involved with the club and all its

supporters a very merry

Christmas and a happy New Year.

The past month’s results have been good with

wins in both the Championship Manager Cup

(Ryman League Cup) and the Essex Senior

Cup along with 2 wins a draw and one defeat

in the league. Due to the lack of league

games our league position has not changed

much and we remain mid table but with

games in hand over most teams.

We now enter a very busy and crucial fixture

period as we lead up to Christmas when we

play several of the top 6 sides followed by

local Derbys with Concord Rangers on 27th

December and Billericay on 3rd January,

both of which will hopefully pull in bumper

crowds as they are both played on Bank

Holiday days with a 3pm kick off. It is worth

pointing out that the Billericay game which

was first scheduled for New Years Day has

been moved back to 3rd January which

will allow everyone to enjoy their New

Year’s Eve celebrations and relax on New

Year’s Day with their families.

On the player front we were delighted that

both Danny Heale and John Easterford

(pictured) agreed contract terms for the rest

of the season and we hope beyond.

Our reserve team remain top of the Capital

League at the time of writing and have

several tough fixtures before Christmas

including Chelmsford, Braintree and

Bishops Stortford. We wish them well.

Entry prices for Capital League games are

much reduced and the football is high

quality so why not pop down for a game

which are always played on a Wednesday

evening for Home games.

Off the pitch we have a number of events

scheduled in December including a

children's Christmas Party on Sunday

12th December, 3.00 a ticket, and a New

Years Eve Party which includes a disco

and a buffet with tickets at £10.00 adults and

£5.00 under 16s with under 12s free. Tickets

for both can be purchased at the football club

on all evenings except Monday. Details can

also be found on our website.

Finally below please find our December

fixtures a full list can be found on our newly

designed website in association with Impact

Media Design at www.canveyislandfc.com.

Sat 4th December - Home - Croydon Athletic

Sat 11th December - Away Sutton Utd

Tues 14th December - Home Lowestoft Town

Sat 18th December - Away - Tonbridge

Angels

Mon 27th December - Away - Concord

Rangers (3pm KO)

Mon 3rd January - Home - Billercay Town

(3pm KO)

Hope to see you down at the Brockwell

Stadium soon.

Manager John Batch with Danny Heale and John Easterford



December 1914 - A Christmas Truce

One of the most remarkable events of the

First World War concerns the Christmas

Truce of 1914, in which the soldiers of the

Western Front laid down their arms on

Christmas Day and met in “No Man’s

Land,” exchanging food and cigarettes as

well as playing football.

The cessation of violence was entirely

unofficial. There had been no prior

discussion and troops acted spontaneously

from goodwill, not orders.

The most famous account of events involves

British and German forces; however, French

and Belgium troops also took part. No-one

really knows what initiated it. There were

some reports that British troops heard their

German counterparts singing Christmas

carols and joined but there were also reports

of German and British soldiers erecting

signs wishing each other a “Merry

Christmas.”

Driven by feelings of goodwill, home-

sickness and combat-weariness some men

crossed the lines with their hands up, and

troops from the opposing side went to meet

them. Commanders either turned a blind-eye

or joined in. Food and supplies were

exchanged and tools and equipment were

borrowed. Games of football were played

and bodies trapped within No Man’s Land

were buried.

7th December 1761 - Marie Tussaud

was born in France

We are all familiar with the waxwork

museums that feature the name “Madame

Tussaud’s” but how many of us know

anything about the woman behind them?

Born Anna Marie Grosholtz, her fascination

with waxworks began as a young child

when her mother was a maid for worked as

a maid for Dr. Philippe Curtius who used

wax to model anatomical figures and drew

huge crowds with the opening of his first

waxwork museum.

He trained the young Marie, who went on to

teach sculpture to the children of King

Louis XVI. The king loved her work so

much that she was invited to live with the

Royal Family at Versailles until the French

Revolution of 1789.

During the revolution, she was arrested

because of her association with the king.

She was freed however due to her

association with Dr Curtius and was then

employed to make death masks from the

heads of those who lost their lives at the

guillotine. Marie would search through piles

of decapitated heads to find the best

examples. On his death, Dr Curtius left his

museums to Marie who had by now married

Francois Tussaud. She opened her first

museum in London 1835 and her self

portrait (below) still stands at the entrance.

She died in 1850.


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Pre-Christmas Party with Disco & Karaoke - 9pm - 12am

TUESDAY 21st DECEMBER

Children’s Christmas Party - 4pm - 6.30pm

FRIDAY 24th DECEMBER

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SATURDAY 25th DECEMBER

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FRIDAY 31st DECEMBER

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Mondays 7.30pm - 10.30pm All Levels

Thursdays 2.15pm - 4.15pm Beginners

For details call Carol on 01268 680871

Castle Point District Stroke Club Runnymede Hall, kiln Road, Benfleet

Every other Wednesday

Call Geoff Sharp on 01268 780701

Canvey Island W.I Women’s Institute Hall, Lionel Rd, Canvey

Every 2nd Thursday at 1.45pm

Call 01268 693955

Canvey Island Breathe Easy Group The Paddocks, Long Road, Canvey

Every 3rd Tuesday

Call Geoff Sharp on 01268 780701

This month - Tuesday 21st December -

Mince Pies, Sausage Rolls & Christmas

Drinks

Art Class Wintergardens Baptist Church, Hilton Rd

Every Wednesday 10-12 or 1.30-3.30

Professional teacher, £5 a session.

Beginners and improvers welcome.

Call 07751 690033

The Orpheus Singers and the Leigh Orpheus Male Choir Concert 18th December 2010 at 7.30pm, doors open

at 7pm at Sweyne Park School, Rayleigh.

Tickets: Adults £8 Concs £7 Child £4

Call 01702 477911

Mince Pie Morning Canvey Methodist Church, Waarden Road

Sat 11th December 10.30am - 12.30pm

Call 01268 693955

Traditional Christmas Lunch Canvey Methodist Church, Waarden Road

Sun 12th December 12.30pm

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For this months issue, I thought I would introduce you to the first team squad. The coaches for league matches can pick 18

players -15 on the pitch and 3 replacements.

Cup matches are allowed 6 replacements.

For the uninitiated, there are three front row,

two second row, three back row one scrum-

half, one fly-half, two centres, two wingers

and one fullback making 15 players on the

pitch. Rugby union laws state that in league

or cup rugby you must have a front row

player on the replacements bench as this is

regarded as a specialist position.

The photo shows Canvey’s squad. Front Row:

Richard Dennis, Jason Fardell, Billy Gorringe,

James Saunders, Darren Smith Second Row:

James Breading(capt), Scott Wheeler, Andrew

Hardy, Dyffd Gillespie Back row: Dave

Dennis, Jack Gillingwater, Tommi

Gillingwater, Matt Lay, Brett Smith (vice capt)

Damon Cooper, Lee Thorne, Luke Smith, Tom

Saunders, Morgan Evans, Frankee Leeming,

Tom Dulieu, Charlie Clarke, Steve Hassan, Ben

Chandler, coach Andy Hawes forwards coach

Dick Gibbons.

This has been the players most used this season

the coaches can and do use other players that

are, as we call them, on the fringes of first team

rugby particularly the younger members of the

club who we hope are our future.

Richard Smith


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Accountants

Maynard Heady 6

Rowland Hall 14

Acupuncture

Brook natural Health Centre 15

Appliance Repairs

Advanced Technology 7 Hills Electrical 11

Aerial Installation

Trevange 23

Barbers

Cousinz 6

Bike Sales / Repairs

Les’s Cycles 23

Blinds

Paul James Blinds 6

Builders

J.T Installations Ltd 17

Building Supplies

Charfleets Supplies 35

Cakes

Sophisticakes 23

Car Repairs

Dr Bump 31

Marine Garage 25

Carpentry

Dave Cooper 33

Catering

All Occasions Catering 9

Courier Services

G A Couriers 2

Decorators

Bob Leighton 11

Driveways

Windsor Driveways 35

Estate Agents

Fisks 21

Funeral Directors

A.R Adams 15

Furniture Restoration

Furniture Clinic 25

Hairdressers

DLS Hair Studio 13

Ellis’ 2

Hobbit Hair 17 Sophisticuts 20

Hypnotherapy

Power Hypnotherapy 20

Insurance Brokers

Cobra Insurance Brokers 31

Kitchen Supply

Reality Kitchens 22

SM Interiors 11

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Window Cleaning

Cannon Window Cleaning 15

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Mobility Supplies

Ward International 24

Music Shop

ABC Music 33

Opticians

Tyler Goodchild 23

Osteopath


PC Services

E-Zee PC 27 Labyrinth IT 1

Penny Lane Computers 36

Tuff Computer Co. 7

Picture Framing

Art Tech 35

Plumbers

Alan Keys 37

Plumbing Supplies

BHS Heating 33

Property Services

RF Property Service 15

Restaurants / Cafes / Bars

Charley’s Bar 29

CK Bar 40

Flutes 27 Islanders Fish Restaurant 6

M & M Cafe 13 Oysterfleet 5

Silver Jubilee 32

The Haystack 7

Self Storage

Easy Peasy Self Storage 37

Tanning Salon

State of the Art Tanning 29

Therapists

Jo Grey 9

Tool Hire

Hanson Hire 9

Trade Card Collector

Ken Sandiman 11

Travel

Acclaim Travel 23 On Time Taxis 24

Training

Dr Byte 19

TV Supplies

Ace Vision 34

Upholstery

D J Upholstery 7

Weight Loss

Weightwatchers 14

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Sapphire Wills 15

Windows and Doors

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