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This is the official page of the Canvey Island Transport Museum. The Canvey Island Transport Museum is operated by the Castle Point Transport Museum Society, which is a UK Registered Charity. The building that houses the Museum was built in 1934 for the Canvey & District Motor Transport Co. and served a series of similar companies before passing to the Eastern National Omnibus Co. A group from the
Eastern National Preservation Group then formed the Castle Point Transport Museum Society and acquired the leasehold of the depot, later purchasing the freehold. Since then, the Museum has assembled a collection of over thirty preserved commercial vehicles as its main display, many privately owned by members and several owned by the Society. Visitors can see classic examples from the vanishing worlds of chassis makers like AEC, Bedford, Bristol, Guy, and Leyland, and body builders including Eastern Coach Works, Duple, Harrington and Massey Brothers. Many vehicles are fully restored, while others are being rebuilt or undergoing maintenance by their owners or groups of members in our workshops
29/09/2023
We are in the paper today.
28/09/2023
Hot off the press - we have walls
26/09/2023
26/09/2023
Just an update on our painting competition. All entries are now in. We are currently arranging for the judging which will be in a couple of weeks. One of the judges is on holiday. The actual presentation with the bus ride will be in November date to be confirmed.
Check back here for more details as they are confirmed.
24/09/2023
Following a meeting at the museum today we can now tell you we will be having a Table Sale at the museum on the 8th October. If you would like a stall please contact us by email or through messenger. [email protected]
21/09/2023
PLEASE NOTE
Our website is now down as a major upgrade is underway.
All updates re the museum and website will appear here.
To contact us please use messenger.
19/09/2023
Hope you all enjoyed our Paint Your Wagon event on Sunday.
The event was part of the Heritage Open Days events that were going on around the country over the last couple of weeks.
If you were there perhaps you would like to fill in their survey with a chance of winning a hamper. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/survey
Your comments will also help us. So please take the time to answer their questions and if you win the hamper please let us know. Good luck.
How was your Heritage Open Days? We hope you’ve had a wonderful Heritage Open Days! We'd love to hear about your experience - what was good, what wasn’t so good, what surprised you, and what you’d like to see next year. We'd be very grateful if you are able to take a few moments to complete ...
18/09/2023
A few photos from yesterday
17/09/2023
Come and join the fun at the museum today
15/09/2023
Don't forget our Heritage Open day this Sunday
13/09/2023
All cleared out and ready for the contractors
11/09/2023
Have your kids entered our competition? Get those paintings in.
11/09/2023
Don't forget our event this Sunday
07/09/2023
Canvey Community Day 2023. Keith managed to get in on the photos.
25/08/2023
Please take notice. Our website will be down for a while whilst we do a major upgrade. Please check here for info regarding the museum and contact us via messenger. Thank you.
21/08/2023
Just a few photos from yesterday. There are more on our website.
A hot summer day in 1960 sees many passengers boarding open top Bristol K5G GLJ 986 at Bournemouth bus station in Exeter Road. The destination shows route 7 to Swanage, but in fact the open top bus will run only as far as Sandbanks ferry; the passengers will cross by ferry to Shell Bay, where two single deck buses will be waiting to take them onward to Studland and Swanage.
GLJ 986 had been new as an ordinary closed top double deck bus in February 1948; it was rebodied as an open top in the Company's own workshops in June 1957 and remained in service with Hants & Dorset until 1970.
16/08/2023
Don't forget we are open this Sunday with a surprise event. Come and see our new mural currently being painted.
16/08/2023
We made it in the papers today.
15/08/2023
The museum was the recipient of the money raised from this year's Town Council Garden Trail. Some of the gardeners who open their gardens for the event, the Town Mayor Elaine Harvey and Deputy Peter May were on hand to present the cheque to members of the museum.
14/08/2023
That does not look very safe
11/08/2023
Here are a few photos from our new mural. With Blakey and Olive pointing the way to the ladies and gents and the museum takes pride of place on our street scene. What a great job they are doing.
07/08/2023
Quiz night in support of the museum.
06/08/2023
Don't forget we are open today 10.30-4pm
02/08/2023
The museum has an artist in residence. Maggie is starting our mural so expect to see her about. We will update progress with photos from time to time.
26/07/2023
Our competition is in the paper
24/07/2023
Anyone interested in a stall at our event on the 20th August? Send us a message for details.
24/07/2023
Just to let everyone know we will be open on the 6th August no stalls or bus rides PLUS our next event will be the 20th August. Where we will have stalls and a bus pick up at the monico. More details to follow.
18/07/2023
We are in the Echo today
17/07/2023
Smiles all round at the Museum yesterday
17/07/2023
Don't forget our painting competition
16/07/2023
Thank you to everyone for coming to our Open Day today. It was a great day and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves.
Come again we will be pleased to see you.
16/07/2023
See you all at the museum later today.
14/07/2023
Don't forget this Sunday. We will also have a table and crayons for any child who wants to do a picture for our Paint Your Wagon Competition.
11/07/2023
Support local art group run by Maggie Rose who will be doing the museum's mural.
The Canvey Island Charity Garden Trail is fast approaching with 9 residential and church gardens across Canvey Island opening their gates to the public on Saturday 22nd July 2023. All monies raised will go to Castle Point Transport Museum, which is the Town Mayor’s chosen charity of the year for 2023.
Programmes are priced at £3.00 each and are available now at the following locations,
Canvey Island Town Council Offices, GMD Mowers, St. Nicholas’ Church, and Nisa Local (Jones Corner). Each programme allows one adult entry into all gardens, children under the age of 16 are free, if accompanied by a paying adult. Plants, jams, teas and coffees will also be on sale at some garden locations.
For more information please contact the Community and Events Officer
on 01268 683971 or [email protected]
26/06/2023
We still have some stalls available for our 16th July event. £10 payable on the day but you need to book it now before they are gone.
Message us with your details.
24/06/2023
The museum is creating a mural on a wall inside as part of our Paint Your Wagon event for this years Heritage Open Day. The artist in charge is Maggie Rose.
We have created a competition for children see the poster for full details.
Address
Castle Point Transport Museum Society, 105 Point Road Slough SS87TD
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Videos
Benson at Canvey Transport Spectacular
Benson School of Motoring gave visitors to our Transport Spectacular event the chance to get behind the wheel of a Fiesta in a safe and controlled area. Not only that, the nice folks at Benson donated half of the money they raised to the Castle Point Transport Museum Society charity, and the other half to Guide Dogs for the Blind. Thank you folks - we really appreciate your support and for turning out in strength on the day.
Canvey Island Transport Museum in Miniature!
We are very grateful to Pete Squibb and the family of the late Peter Squibb, a fondly remembered member, for the donation of this amazing scale model of the Canvey Island Transport Museum. Peter commissioned the model many years ago for his own private collection, and we are honoured and delighted that this unique item has joined the collection of artefacts at the Museum. It will be cherished in Peter's memory, and brought out for visitors to see on special occasions!
An Eastern National Lodekka makes an appearance in this lovely little diorama!
Love seeing these fantastic layouts in action - superb work!
The Canvey Island Transport Museum is operated by the Castle Point Transport Museum Society, a Registered Charity (No. 278658).
The art deco building that houses the Museum was built as a depot in 1934 for the Canvey & District Motor Transport Co. Ltd. The depot served a series of similar companies before passing to the Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd, which used it until 1978.
A group from the Eastern National Preservation Group formed the Castle Point Transport Museum Society in 1979 to preserve the building. The Society acquired the leasehold of the depot, later purchasing the freehold.
Since then, the Museum has amassed a collection of over 30 preserved commercial vehicles as its main display, with some emergency and military vehicles also in the collection which dates from the 1940s to the late 1990s. Many vehicles are privately owned by members and several are owned by the Society.
Visitors can see classic examples from the vanishing worlds of chassis makers like AEC, Bedford, Bristol, Guy and Leyland. Body builders including Eastern Coach Works, Duple, Harrington and Massey Brothers can also be seen in the Museum’s vast vehicle collection.
Many vehicles are fully restored, while others are being rebuilt or undergoing maintenance by their owners or groups of members in our workshops.
To add to the authentic transport theme of the Museum, a large working model railway, vintage traffic office and display room are open for viewing, along with a well-stocked gift shop, café and tea room. Toilets (including disabled access) are open to the public.
The Museum opens to the public every first and third Sunday of the month between April and October (10am - 5pm), with free entry and car parking (closed during Winter). The Museum also opens for selected special events during the year.
If you require more information about the Museum, the work the Society does or are interested in becoming a member and/or volunteer, please get in touch via ‘phone, email or come and visit! Further details, regarding visits and events, can be found on our website and page:
Huge thanks and congratulations to Canvey Community Choir for their first - and excellent! - performance since the start of the pandemic, at Castle Point Mayor Pat Haunts St George’s Day event at St Nicks Canvey CofE
I’m told the best part of a thousand pounds was raised for one of the Mayor’s chosen local charities Canvey Island Transport Museum. Well done everyone! 👏🏻
I am so excited to be building this. Build the in 1:12 scale from the folks over at . Check out Pack 6 on my channel at https://youtu.be/7J_3BEzaZdA . In Pack 6 we are completing stages 51-60 .
Thank you for the open day and free vintage bus rides yesterday......
As we approach the 50th anniversary in July and August of the bus with The Beatles inspired artwork, the ex Essex 1953 Bristol KSW ECW Open Top Double Decker WNO 481 living the dream of being chosen as the 1972 Wings Tour Bus, touring with Paul McCartney and Wings over 12,000 km's / 7,500 miles we are happy to announce we are approaching the final stages of our restoration. Still lots of challenges to overcome but to acknowledge that it could only have been achieved With A Little Help From My Friends and thank everyone who supported and helped make the restoration dream a reality I would like to unveil the design of the forthcoming Paul McCartney's 1972 Wings Tour Bus Restoration Roll Of Honour. The final version will hang in the bus and will feature the names of those who were involved underneath the wording: TO THOSE NAMED AND THEIR TEAMS WHO GAVE OF THEIR TIME, SKILL AND PATIENCE WE SALUTE AND THANK YOU. Hope to see you soon.
I am so excited to be building this. Build the in 1:12 scale from the folks over at . Check out Pack 5 on my channel at https://youtu.be/vcH64nAMO3I . In Pack 5 we are completing stages 41-50 .
I am so excited to be building this. Build the in 1:12 scale from the folks over at . Check out Pack 4 on my channel at https://youtu.be/KYJO8VJCfNQ . In Pack 3 we are completing stages 31-40 .
I am so excited to be building this. Build the in 1:12 scale from the folks over at . Check out Pack 3 on my channel at https://youtu.be/yICv8HJb2l4 . In Pack 3 we are completing stages 21-30 .
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How buses helped in the formation of The Beatles and how they pop up in Paul McCartney's songs.
"I met George on a bus, I first saw John on a bus, George auditioned on a bus, we went across town to find this guy who knew B7 (chord) on a bus. Penny Lane was the bus depot. If I was visiting John I could go from my place in Forthlin Road to Penny Lane change and go up to his place in Menlove Avenue." Buses played a part in the formation of The Beatles. Buses pop up in Paul McCartney's songs and could help to explain how he chose open top seaside special double-decker WNO 481 as the 1972 Wings Tour Bus.
Buses have even featured in Paul McCartney's songs including A Day In The Life from The Beatles 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and even as recent as On My Way To Work from 2013. In this video Paul McCartney talks about how buses have loomed large in his legend as he celebrates his new book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, in an event held in November 2021 at The Royal Festival Hall at The South Bank Centre with author Paul Muldoon, chaired by Samira Ahmed.
Samira Ahmed: “I want to talk to you about buses. That song (On My Way To Work - 2013) starts with riding the big green bus to work and they loom large in your legend, Sir Paul, buses, don’t they?”
Sir Paul McCartney: “Yeah, I never realised it, you know, but that I tell stories to Paul (Underwood) or more recently to my eldest grandson and he was doing an essay for his final thesis at university and he wanted to look into the Cultural Revolution in Britain. So we sat down and I was talking to him about Liverpool. Yeah, well so we started talking and every story I told him… I met George on a bus, I first saw John on a bus, George auditioned on a bus, we went across town to find this guy who knew B7 (chord) on a bus. Penny Lane was the bus depot. So, yeah, there are millions of stories about buses and then he very cleverly I thought looked up why the bus system was so good and after the war, World War ll, there had been the Transport Act. So, he researched it, found, I can’t remember it but like (then Transport Minister) Herbert Morrison did the Transport Act so that gave us this great bus system so in Liverpool you could go anywhere. If I was visiting John I could go from my place in Forthlin Road to Penny Lane change and go up to his place in Menlove Avenue… and you know school and all of this there was this amazing system that I didn’t realise we were kind of the first generation to benefit from that and also there was The Education Act. That meant that kids like me from not very well off homes could go to very posh schools and I think the idea that he puts forward in his essay is that this gave everyone over Britain this opportunity to be more mobile and more educated and that was a big factor in the Cultural Revolution.
Samira Ahmed: “I know I sound obsessed with buses but I have one more question about buses first which is being on the upper deck and the view and how important that was and the length of your commute to school because it was half an hour that all seemed quite relevant and also there's an interview you did on one of the Pop Goes The Beatles type shows that was on the Live At The BBC album where you were asked about what you miss now that you’re famous and you’re straight in with like riding on a bus and it really mattered to you losing that. Is it thinking time? Is it dreaming time? Is it the view?”
Sir Paul McCartney: “Yeah, I just like buses.”
Here's wishing a Happy New Year to everyone at Canvey Island Transport Museum.
Big thanks from 1972 Wings Tour Bus WNO 481 for all the help, support and good wishes received throughout 2021.
This year we're looking forward to completing the restoration of this iconic and historic vehicle and seeing you at events planned for 2022 which marks the 50th Anniversary year of Paul McCartney's legendary and pivotal 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour.
It's well documented how much he loves buses and they have even provided inspiration for his songwriting.
When Paul chose open top double-decker Bristol KSW 5G ECW reg no. WNO 481 at the time a 20 year old seaside special to be the 1972 Wings Tour Bus he created our Legend Of Rock & Road complete with artwork inspired by THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine.
Happy New Year from Tom, Brad, Steve and all The Busketeers Restoration Team.
Let's make 2022 The Year Of The Bus.
I am so excited to be building this. Build the in 1:12 scale from the folks over at . Check out Pack 2 on my channel at https://youtu.be/UlyKeq2KV08 . In Pack 2 we are completing stages 11-20 .
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