The Bulletin 1979 et seq
Referenced in a speech by Sir Bernard Braine
Regarding Lt. Col. Horace Percy Fielder, T. D. Councillor, builder, soldier, civil engineer; and continued in The Bulletin, Winter 1979 -1980 from the previous edition.
TRIBUTES
Other permanent tributes to his family that Col. Fielder has installed on the Island are a lychgate at St Katherine’s Church, in memory of his mother, and one of the Island’s roads is named after his wife – Barbara Avenue.
Although Col. Fielder’s war wounds led him to renounce his seat on the former Canvey Council in 1966 {he said, typically, “ I shall have to spend part of my life abroad and I didn’t think it was fair on those who voted for me if I couldn’t make a full, 100 per cent attendance at Council meetings”} he has still kept his active interests in the district and there is no fear that his companies, associate companies and trusts, probably worth over a million pounds will ever have their headquarters other than on Canvey Island.
Sir Bernard Braine, Conservative Member of Parliament for South east Essex in a tribute said: “Horace Fielder has given long and distinguished service to Canvey Island both in peace and in war. I know that his retirement from the Council will be regretted by everyone.
Indeed, if Canvey has been transformed in the post-war years, no man has done more to hasten this development and to restore the confidence shattered overnight by the 1953 flood disaster.
A true individualist, Col. Fielder has never changed his passionate belief in the potentialities of the Islanders. For him, the “mainland” has hardly existed at all.
Yet a great deal of what he has achieved for the Islanders has been done quietly behind the scenes. I can speak from experience.”
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Including material from The Bulletin, there is an extensive series of articles about Lt. Col. Horace Percy Fielder, T. D. available at this area of the Canvey Archive.
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