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Aveling Porter Ploughing Engine with Cecil Baldwin on the left and Charles Polley on the right [though Ron Green who knew Cecil, thinks he is Cecil on the right]. They both worked for Fairhead of Peldon for several years. 
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Charles was the older brother of Pat Polley - great grandfather of Helen Jones who sent the picture. She says he worked the engines for many years, even in the 1939 Census. He liked a drink, and playing the squeeze box. The Polley family were very close to the Howard family who also worked on the engines and were also from Ardleigh.
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Some of the registration number is just visible - NO66 .. NO registrations were issued in Essex between January 1921 and July 1923.
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One of a pair of Aveling & Porter, 8hp, compound, steam ploughing engines, numbers 9147 & 9148, new in June 1920, purchased second-hand by William G. Fairhead's descendants in August 1922. (William died in October 1918) They were given the road registrations NO6694 and NO6695. </i>
[From the Archivist - <a href=https://steamploughclub.org.uk/ target=spc>Steam Plough Club</a>]</p> After January 1921. Photo: Helen Jones
Barge GOLDEN FLEECE unloading timber on Mersea Hard. The lorries are ex-Army World War I lorries with solid tyres.
The left lorry NO1671 is from Clifford White, driver Jack Heard, mate Tom Cudmore. Right NO3942 is a Primrose Bus Company, driver Herbert Green, mate Rupert Green. 1921.
Sea Cadet Band at first Armistice Day Parade, outside Legion Hall in Barfield Road. 
Names from Owen Fletcher: L-R 1. Brian Jay, 2. John Telford, 3. Keith Mynard, 4. Bob Bisco (Petty Officer), 5. Ray Buck (drum - from Abberton), 6. Dennis Dustin, 7. Ray Coppin (bass drum), 8. Brian Marshall (drum), 9. Roger Sheldrake, 10. Dick Gladwell (Drum Major).
Also present is Burton Hewes. On the extreme right are Steve and David Conway with their parents. 1951. Photo: Bob Bisco Collection
On smack PHANTOM returning from Maldon Carnival mid 1920s.
Names roughly L-R 
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1. Kathie Vince 2. Ethel Green 3. Ella Green 4. Dot Green (Mrs Ock Green) with teapot 5. Florence Vince with cup 6. Mabel Farthing (Mrs Arthur Benns) 7. Ron Vince 8. Bert Vince looking through between mast and mainsail 9. Harry Vince holding halyard 10. Mrs Lee 11. Edna Vince (Mrs Sparkes) eating biscuit 12. Peter Vince 13. Mr Lee 14. Syd Vince. 1920s.
Harvesting in West Mersea with corn stooks standing in the field - in Mersea these were known as traves or traives. Looking across what is known in 2009 as the 'Legion Field', formerly known as Eight Acres.
In the background is Barfield Road from what is now Lower 
Kingland Road to Melrose Road. The school is on the left - the belfry on the 'Old' school is still in place. The small bungalow with the sunshine on 
the roof to the right of the picture, was the home of the Whiting family 
for many years. The two pairs of cottages in the right half of the picture have been replaced by modern housing while the two in the centre of the picture remain the same shape but have been modernized.
One of the photographs used in Queen's Estates Souvenir brochure, advertising the sale on 24 August 1907 of a number of building plots in West Mersea. The brochure is in Mersea Museum archives. Before August 1907.
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