Frederick Hester : A brief history in pictures - Page 10 : The Winter Gardens
The picture below is from A.A.Daly's 'A History of Canvey Island' and shows an artists impression of inside the Winter Gardens with a indoor bench seat railway track ferrying people through the complex.
Interior of the Winter Gardens - Tom Merry
1902
In 1964 Miss A.W.Currie recounted her memories of the Winter Gardens. In 1906 her parents bought a roomy bungalow at the Wintergardens for £200. She said the area still contained a large amount of glass, empty animal cages and an abundance of oriental shrubs & trees. She said the narrow gauge railway shown still ran behind their garden and the children used to ride along through the long grass on a remaining bogey!
1902 Postcard of the interior of the Wintergardens