About Canvey History
| A Message From The Webmaster:Apologies about the recent downtime. This was unexpected and unannounced. I have been working hard to restore all areas of the Canvey History website to ensure that they are back up and running. The Discussion Pages should now be fully functional and the Facebook and Twitter pages will be back within the next 48 Hours. For our regular visitors that encountered problems with the Discussion Pages last year, your accounts have now been restored and from later this week you will be able to start posting new messages.
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Update: We are still currently on a back-up server which has prevented the re-opening of the message board. During the move to the new full time server, the website may be closed for a brief period. Further announcements will be made nearer the time. We will be contacting all previous members of the discussion board when this feature is reactivated. Please note that members that did not previously contribute to the discussion board will only have 7 days to verify and reactivate their accounts. More details will be sent out by email. Posted by Lee. Updated: 01:08 09/02/2010
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Introduction:
Welcome to canveyhistory.com – The website dedicated to the history of Canvey Island in words and pictures, as written and published by Geoff Barsby.
About The Author :
Geoff Barsby
Geoff Barsby was born in 1945 to parents who were islanders themselves, as were their parents before them. He has lived all his life on Canvey and is a well known local figure, both for his efforts in charity work in the community, for which he has won a National Caring Award, and as the publisher of a long established local newspaper. As well as The District News, his publishing interests include a local history magazine, Years Gone By, which includes photographs from his own extensive collection.
A keen participant in many sports in his younger years, he encouraged youngsters on the island to apply their energies to football by starting the very first teams of Canvey Mites F.C. which he supported financially in the early years. He has also played an active part as a fund-raising organiser for the P.T.A.s of Canvey schools and he still works very hard raising funds through The District News Registered Charity to help island doctors and residents with medical equipment.
