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Rare Canvey postcard, "Oriental Omnibus Palace Canvey on Sea". The
bus garage at Leigh Beck is now a world class museum that's never
open. It was originally designed by the same person that did the Taj
Mahal at Agra, India. But it's original glory was soon curtailed when
the Eastern National bus company drained the ornamental pond and the
surrounding orangery and pleasure gardens were replaced by a school
for imbeciles.
The building itself has survived the architectural rape of Canvey
along with the Art Deco Labworth Cafe and two tiny rustic peasant
hovels to be found in Namur Road and Furtherwick Road. Not fortunate
was the sumptous 1920's seafront Casino, destroyed to make way for a
flat bit of concrete. And one year after a crazed bunch of evil
despots destroyed those ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan, the world
again looked on in horror as Canvey's own Taliban, the despots of
the local yacht club, blasted out of existence the world famous
Concrete Barge, thus robbing humanity of possibly its most beautiful
and sacred structure.
The card is in good condition, which in collector's jargon means
the condition is not at all good. It is postmarked Leigh Beck 04;
it is either 1904 or a time-warp artefact from 2004. I haven't decided
yet. This is a private auction. To be invited to bid you must visit
and sign the guest book of www.concretebarge.co.uk
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