Heybridge Basin (Cannibal Island)

Click on underlined blue names for link to more details

May & Butcher's Foreshore

As well as having the large area of land with it's entrance from the Basin Road, the company had an area along the foreshore frontage where it not only operated a slipway, but had moorings, a large storage hulk (the 'Astris Gloriana') and broke up many vessels both large and small.

01 (above) One of the original 'M&B' foreshore boatsheds.

02 (above) The foreshore area of 'M & B' with it's sheds along the wall, a large hull hauled up on the beach and their launching ramps alongside it.

03 - 04 (above & below) the many vessels broken on the foreshore of M&B. In the above picture the 'Astrid Gloriana' is being used asw a storage hulk on the extreme right. Three sailing barges are also being broken the 'Charley', the 'Agness' and the 'Unity'. In the below picture, from R to L is the 'Astrid Gloriana' and the 'St George'.