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Canvey Island, Essex, 1911

Plotlands and bungalows on Canvey Island.

Explores early 'plotland' development on Canvey Island through the 1911 census, when Frederick Hester's land sales had begun transforming a low-lying Thames estuary parish into a place of bungalows and holiday homes, with many dwellings still unoccupied on census night.

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