1. Taken near the beginning of last century, from Church Road. The only building in Coast Road is the pair of weatherboard cottages opposite St Peter's Well....
Date: c1900
Image ID AA000000

2. Looking towards the Tollesbury shore. Ships laid up in the River Blackwater in the icy winter of 1963. The boats from Mersea were unable to get out to the ships...
Date: 1 February 1963
Image ID AA000850

3. A postcard of The Shore, Bradwell on Sea. In the 1930s many ships were laid up in the River Blackwater - among those visible are VOLTAIRE, PORT CURTIS and...
Date: c1932
Image ID IA000110

4. Wymarks Beach, Bradwell on Sea. Postcard franked 13 July 1965.
Baffle Wall for the power station is being built. From L to R the ships are probably MALDEN...
Date: c1959
Image ID IC010030

5. West Mersea postcard, looking to the west from Decoy Point.
Image ID TMPC0702

6. The Strood connects Mersea Island to the mainland.
Date: c1955
Image ID TMPC0703

7. West Mersea postcard.
Image ID TMPC0704

8. The Beach, West Mersea
Image ID TMPC0705

9. A piece of ENDEAVOUR's tow rope which was severed on the night of 13th September 1937 at about 11 o'clock at night in the Atlantic, 200 miles off Nantucket on...
Date: 3 November 2009
Image ID TM2_3698

10. ALIAKMON RIVER in the River Blackwater.
Image ID DW01_001

11. On board ALIAKMON RIVER in the Blackwater --- taken by David Wright who was watchman on board
Date: c1983
Image ID DW01_002

12. ALIAKMON RIVER laid up in the River Blackwater.
Date: 16 October 1982
Image ID IA000360

13. ALIAKMON RIVER laid up in the River Blackwater.
Date: 5 September 1982
Image ID SHP_SAN_740

14. ALIAKMON RIVER laid up in the River Blackwater.
Date: 5 September 1982
Image ID SHP_SAN_742

15. Anchor recovered from Barrow Deep by West Mersea Skipper Pat Mead of fishing boat OAKLEIGH and landed at Colchester Hythe. The anchor weighed over 2 tons and is...
Date: August 1977
Image ID IA003350

16. Anchor recovered from Barrow Deep by West Mersea fisherman Pat Mead, at the Hythe, Colchester, en route to Mersea.
Date: 1977
Image ID IA003410

17. Anchor recovered from Barrow Deep by West Mersea fisherman Pat Mead, at the Hythe en route to Mersea.
Date: 1977
Image ID IA003411

18. The anchor in Mersea Museum grounds is thought to date from before 1820. It has a wooden stock, with wrought iron shank, arms and flukes. The stock is about...
Date: 26 July 2009
Image ID TM2_3136

19. Tug believed to be the ARGUS T owned by TSA Tug Ltd of Leigh on Sea. The ships in the background are the ZAK and the ATTICA. It is believed the ship in the...
Image ID AA000380

20. ATTICA was renamed LADYLIKE while laid up in the River Blackwater
Image ID ASH044

21. The experimental gas turbine powered Shell tanker AURIS laid up, believed to be in the River Blackwater. Photo from ...
Date: c1961
Image ID IA000570

22. AUSTRALIA FREEZER in the River Blackwater
Date: c1983
Image ID ASH060

23. AUSTRALIA FREEZER leaving the River Blackwater.
Date: 20 February 1984
Image ID DW01_006

24. BALTRIGER laid up in the River Blackwater. 1,113 tons gross built 1917 Official Number 145064. Name sometimes reported as BALTRICIA, BALATRICER BALTRIGGER or...
Date: 1931
Image ID RG500001

25. Dutch tug BANCKERT IMO No. 6516805 Built 1965. 227 tons gross. In the River Blackwater to tow NORFOLK FERRY to the breakers.
Date: c15 April 1983
Image ID ASH055

26. BANCKERT in the River Blackwater to take NORFOLK FERRY to the breakers.
Date: c15 April 1983
Image ID ASH056

27. Postcard of sailing barge BLACKWATER at Bradwell. Believed to be pre-1935. The distant vessel is most likely to be CARNARVONSHIRE 9,406 grt built 1914, but...
Date: Before 1935
Image ID RG040003

28. The last berth for a pair of Thames sailing barges, in the Blackwater, just above Heybridge Basin. The nearest barge is the CHARLES BURLEY, Official No.115905,...
Date: 14 June 2009
Image ID IA003275

29. 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...
Date: 1921
Image ID IA002310

30. Barge P.A.M. at Mersea Strood. Believed to have been taken by skipper George Blake or his camera.
Date: c1946
Image ID HBC_018_001