🆕A Quick History Of Canvey Island. Canvey Island Nature Reserve. Check It Out! 

canvey ! My MANOR, My home, KEEP OUT, KEEP AWAY, its MINE !

Hi there, I was born on the rock and as I remember as a kid we used to go excavating on the saltines. This as you probably know was a strip of raised sandy banking which stretched beyond the concrete barge which is now no longer there.. we would find animal bones and sheep jaws and occasionally found coins and artefacts, the coins we believe were Roman. I believe the saltines got its name because of a settlement there who would boil the seawater to retrieve the salt. We also found plenty of munitions which we would throw around in our war play.😊

The 'Quick History of Canvey Island' is so inaccurate as to be risible. Born and bred on the Island I would like to comment on just some of the inaccuracies. I refute the statement that the Island was inhabited 2000 years ago. In those days there would have been no protection from flooding twice a day from the rise and fall of the River Thames. As far as I know there was never a settlement of Dutch people flee persecution in Holland. The Dutch came to Canvey, as correctly stated, at the invitation of the owner in order to build the seawall around the Island at the beginning of the 17th century. The remaining inhabited Dutch cottage is located at Canvey Village but what was not mentioned is that the cottage now preserved as a museum is located at what is known as the Dutch Village. Of the 5:32 length of the video the commentary stopped abruptly at 3:38 and the remaining time is filled with photograph of various parts of the Island we no explanation as to why. There are many other videos on RU-vid that will give a far more accurate account of Canvey, usually written by locals who will know that this current video is BS.