IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Station Road, CANVEY ISLAND, SS8 7NF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Station Road, SS8 7NF by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (29 Images Found)
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Canvey Island: Station Road
The road name is intriguing. Canvey Island does not have a railway, yet alone a railway station, nor is there any evidence that it ever did have one. Perhaps the station referred to is a drainage pumping station or maybe a railway was intended to be built, and the road was named in anticipation.
This is the view from the sea defence wall.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 8 Mar 2011
0.03 miles
2
Canvey Island: Gafzelle Drive
This is the intriguingly named Gafzelle Drive viewed from the top of the sea defence wall. The Canvey Community Archive website http://canveyisland.org/page_id__1140_path__0p2p30p.aspx has several images of Gafzelle Drive taken during a freshwater flood event in 1968, some 15 years after the catastrophic seawater flood and inundation of Canvey Island in 1953.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 8 Mar 2011
0.06 miles
3
Eastern Esplanade, Canvey Island
The road leading left is Marine Avenue. Taken looking down from the seawall.
Image: © David Kemp
Taken: 28 Jul 2018
0.06 miles
4
Canvey Island: Kismet Park Dyke
The photographer does not know the formal name of this dyke but it does run along the eastern side of Kismet Park and excess water is pumped out into the Thames estuary by the St Anne's Pumping Station which is behind him. Although the dyke runs in a concrete conduit, old maps show that historically, and certainly before there was any residential development, there has always been a drain along this route.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 8 Mar 2011
0.08 miles
5
Chapman Sands Sailing Club
A small club and the only one on the exposed south side of Canvey Island.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 21 Feb 2015
0.08 miles
6
Steps in Leigh Beck
This stairway gives an impression of the enormity of the task of preventing the River Thames from washing Canvey Island off the face of the earth.
Image: © Glyn Baker
Taken: 9 Oct 2016
0.08 miles
7
Canvey Island: Sea defence wall shelter
Shelters along Canvey's sea defence wall are sparse and to say the least rudimentary... This one does not even have a seat.
Image is visible in the distance.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 8 Mar 2011
0.09 miles
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The seafront at Canvey Island
Canvey Island lies only just above sea level and was, of course, devastated in the flood of 1st February 1953 when 58 inhabitants drowned. After the flood a new sea wall was constructed which was replaced by a much larger structure in the 1980s. This view is from the top of the sea wall at the eastern end of Eastern Esplanade.
The land on the left horizon is the Hundred of Hoo in Kent, across the Thames Estuary.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 21 Aug 2016
0.09 miles
9
St. Anne's Pumping Station, Canvey Island
One of several pumping stations and tidal sluices that handle the drainage of the island, which is below high tide level.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 21 Feb 2015
0.10 miles
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Canvey Island: Kismet Park outdoor gym
A fine sunny morning but there are no takers at this Adidas sponsored outdoor gym in Kismet Park.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 8 Mar 2011
0.10 miles