The Labworth Restaurant & Café is a modernist International style reinforced concrete building overlooking the Thames estuary at Labworth beach on Canvey Island, Essex. Built in 1932–1933 by Ove Arup to resemble the bridge of the Queen Mary, it exists as the only building solely designed by the distinguished engineer.
Labworth Café
Viewed inland from the north east, the Labworth Cafe in 1996 with its heavy typographic style apparent on the first floor.
Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Castle Point district, in the county of Essex, England. It has an area of 7.12 square miles (18.44 km2) and a population of 38,170. It is separated from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks. Lying only just above sea level, it is prone to flooding at exceptional tides and has been inhabited since the Roman conquest of Britain.
Aerial view from the south east of Canvey Island
Fragments of early marked pottery uncovered from Canvey Point.
One of two octagonal Dutch cottages from the 17th century which are preserved on the island. The above cottage now functions as a museum.
A timber channel, and chalk and ragstone remains of the sea wall built c. 1622.