Canvey Island flood siren photos

[CJ]

A few of the ones I took this morning.

These poor sirens are likely to be scrapped soon. I think they are all of the Castle Castings type, ex-air raid, been used for flood sirens for yonks. There's 10 of them in Canvey Island and there is a list here:

clicky


Corner of Maurice Road and High Street by charliejohnson19, on Flickr


Corner of Maurice Road and High Street by charliejohnson19, on Flickr


Charfleet Service Road by charliejohnson19, on Flickr


Station Approach corner of a playing field by charliejohnson19, on Flickr

A few of these were taken from inside the car so not too great.

The situation with these is the dumb councils reckon they can replace them with text and radio alerts only. Hahahaha!

[holler]

Well CJ are you going to try and get one? Don't see you on here a whole lot anymore, glad that your back.

[CJ]

Haven't paid much attention to the board lately... had other things to do!

I don't know. I have a feeling they are 3 phase, but it'd be nice to get hold of one. If I can get any more info on when (and if - there is still a battle going on by the sounds of it) they are going, I might try.

[CJ]

Great news!

clicky

Apparently, the Castlepoint (there are 11 sirens in Castlepoint. One in Benfleet, and 10 on Canvey Island) sirens aren't going - brilliant!