1. On the beach at the bottom of Seaview Avenue. Shameen in the background. Image ID WVR1_002 |
2. Smack GRACIE, owned by the Vince family. Image ID WVR1_011 |
3. Vera, Emily and Hardie Weaver (in sun hat - born June 1910, so this picture is around 1913 ?). [Emily was wife of Leonard Weaver, mother of Vera (about 1902), ... Date: c1913 Image ID WVR1_020 |
4. Connie Weaver, Seaview Avenue. Daughter of Emily and Leonard Weaver, born c1889. Image ID WVR1_021 |
5. Fairhaven House in Seaview Avenue. Home of Leonard Weaver and family. Image ID WVR1_027 |
6. Large ketch yacht. Thought to be THOMA II which for some of her career had this standing gaff rig. On mud at Mersea or a bottom scrape ? Image ID WVR1_030 |
7. Horse drawn carriage at the Cross on East Road, turning into Dawes Lane. Berwick House in the distance looks as if it is still under construction. The carriage ... Date: c1904 Image ID WVR1_031 |
8. Two small lugsail boats working from West Mersea beach. A family group wants to board by crossing the rowboat while young Hardy Weaver makes sand castles Date: c1912 Image ID WVR1_033 |
9. Barge MAFEKING unloading bricks on Mersea beach for building houses in Fairhaven Avenue, West Mersea. Date: c1912 Image ID WVR1_037 |
10. Weaver family baby on beach at bottom of Seaview Avenue. Shameen in the background. Image ID WVR1_040 |
11. Afloat; The Misses McDermott (white haired) and Hensman family Image ID WVR1_041 |
12. Seaview Avenue 1922/23. The car is a Clement Bayard (1913 ?) model owned by Mr Edwards, 187 Harlesden Road, Willesden Green. Driver Leslie Edwards. Mrs Weaver ... Date: c1923 Image ID WVR1_049 |
13. Sea View Avenue, West Mersea. Postcard 101929.
Fairhaven House in Seaview Avenue. Image ID WVR1_052 |
14. Sea View Avenue. Postcard 101923.
Postcard 101930 taken the same time dates this before July 1929. Date: Before July 1929 Image ID WVR1_053 |
15. Seaview Avenue, West Mersea. Postcard 135972. Date: 1930s Image ID WVR1_054 |
16. Waiting for the tide at the Strood. Postcard 135960.
Nearest car JN763 - JN registration was used by Southend from 1930.
The van on the right is from ... Date: Before August 1932 Image ID WVR1_058 |
17. The Strood at High Tide. Postcard 135959. Image ID WVR1_059 |
18. Waiting to cross the Strood at high tide. At the front of the queue is an RAC motor cycle, perhaps expecting some work.
Lettering on side of bus probably ... Date: Before August 1933 Image ID WVR1_060 |
19. Leakeys Hall, now Brierley Hall, East Road. Image ID WVR1_066 |
20. Fairhaven Avenue early 1900s. The distant houses in the centre of the picture are 'Clovelly', 'Beachy Head' and 'Coverdale' at the top of Seaview Avenue. Date: c1905 Image ID WVR1_069 |
21. Houses on east side of Seaview Avenue. Date: 1900s Image ID WVR1_071 |
22. Kings Hard near church. Image ID WVR1_073 |
23. Weaver family on beach by Kings Hard. Orleans just visible right in background. Image ID WVR1_074 |
24. A 'stackie' barge at West Mersea Hard. Stonehill House is on the right with Firs Chase to the left of it, but "Journey's End" has not yet been built. (The land ... Date: Before 1908 Image ID WVR1_079 |
25. East Mersea, looking across a cornfield to the River Colne. A steam yacht is lying in the Pyefleet. The Golf House is on the right. Harvest time with stooks of ... Image ID WVR1_083 |
26. The River Colne from East Mersea. Steam yacht lying in the Pyefleet (VALFREYIA ?) and a barge coming down river. Image ID WVR1_084 | |