Bear Shouts about canvey island

In 1880, in a written description of the Lobster Smack Inn on Canvey Island, Charles Dickens wrote that smuggling still continued in this part of the Essex coast and had a history of smuggled goods’ ‘runs being carried out by ‘Gentlemen’.

People from everywhere seem to have an opinion about Canvey Island and a lot of those opinions are derogatory. Come have a read what the Bear says...