1. Some of the bones dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near the church. Date: 3 July 2007 Image ID COR2_012_001 |
2. Some of the bones dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near West Mersea church. Date: 3 July 2007 Image ID COR2_012_003 |
3. Skull dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near West Mersea church. Date: 1979 Image ID COR2_012_004 |
4. Bronze Age board walk boards found off East Mersea.
Timber 1 239 x 11 x 2.6 cm
Timber 2 256 x 10.6 x 4.7 cm
Timber 3 235 x 11.8 x ... Date: 19 January 2017 Image ID CZN_TBR_013 |
5. Board walk timbers found off Coopers Beach. Wrapping timber 3 at Museum of London Archaeology. Scale drawings were done and then they were sent to Portsmouth ... Date: 31 March 2017 Image ID CZN_TBR_041 |
6. Removing a section from one of the board walk timbers for dating. Ian Tyers, dendrochronologist from Historic England. Date: cApril 2017 Image ID CZN_TBR_051 |
7. Section removed from board walk timber for dendrochronology (tree ring dating). The result was 'not before 952 BC'. Date: cApril 2017 Image ID CZN_TBR_053 |
8. The timbers found in the mud off Mersea waiting to go into the preservation tank. Date: July 2018 Image ID DC10_MUS_031 |
9. Timbers found in the mud off Mersea in 2017, now in the preservation tank. Date: July 2018 Image ID DC10_MUS_033 |
10. The Board Walk timbers in their pit under the floor in the main hall of the Museum. They are here waiting for the glass cover - which was fitted March ... Date: 31 May 2021 Image ID DC10_MUS_121 |
11. Tunic from the 1953 West Mersea Coronation Pageant, on display in the 2013 Summer Exhibition. Date: 26 April 2013 Image ID DIS2013_PAG_001 |
12. A pram outside the Museum cottage. The pram dates from 1968 and was made by boatbuilder John Milgate for his young son Angus. Date: 1 May 2017 Image ID DIS2017_131 |
13. Mini exhibition of vintage clothing, interesting and unusual textiles. Left to right Georgie Hewes, Christine Bassett's 1959 wedding dress with a very small ... Date: 27 July 2018 Image ID DIS2018_VCL_001 |
14. Ray Smith with the working water pump he has restored during the past winter. It is very popular with Museum visitors. Date: 24 May 2019 Image ID DIS2019_002 |
15. Working water pump, restored 2019 by Ray Smith. The pumps had many uses - one of them can be found on the preserved lightship at Harwich where it was used to ... Date: 18 August 2019 Image ID DIS2019_003 |
16. Our Telephone Box. Go inside and Press Button B - but you may not get your money back. Date: 30 June 2019 Image ID DIS2019_005 |
17. Inside our Telephone Box. Press Button A to connect or Press Button B to get your money back.
Top right is a list of early telephone numbers, starting with ... Date: 30 June 2019 Image ID DIS2019_007 |
18. Fire siren used on Mersea and loaned by Jonathan Mussett of West Mersea Fire Brigade. In later years it was sited behind the Fire Station in Melrose Road and ... Date: 2019 Image ID DIS2019_011 |
19. "Spring Tree". Sculpture by Richard Perry Bedford, c1932.
Donated by Susan Luckham
Accession No. 2014.05.003 Date: 21 June 2019 Image ID DIS2019_RPB_001 |
20. Bronze age urns recovered from the Barrow complex at East Mersea in 2019 and now on display in Mersea Museum.
Urn 1 on the left
"Cremation wa ... Date: 1 July 2023 Image ID DIS2023_BRZ_001 |
21. Mr Bill Pontyfix at the old Victorian Post Box at The Hard in 1959. This was later the first Lifeboat Shed and is in front of Stone House. The post box was ... Date: 1959 Image ID FL12_023_001 |
22. 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 |
23. Kids' Corner in Mersea Museum 2006 season. The wheel was loaned by Martin Wade and had been rescued from the sailing barge UNITY by John Milgate. Nelson's Cabin ... Date: 26 June 2006 Image ID IA003390 |
24. Gun punt built by William Wyatt at West Mersea in 1919. It has its original gun and was used for wildfowling in Mersea for many years, owned by Charlie Stoker ... Date: 1 May 2008 Image ID IA003400 |
25. Anchor recovered from Barrow Deep by West Mersea fisherman Pat Mead, at the Hythe, Colchester, en route to Mersea. Date: 1977 Image ID IA003410 |
26. Anchor recovered from Barrow Deep by West Mersea fisherman Pat Mead, at the Hythe en route to Mersea. Date: 1977 Image ID IA003411 |
27. The Horned Lizard, by Richard Perry Bedford, 1883-1967.
Comment by Jenny Vuglar 21 February 2012: "Interesting - only image of his work I have been ... Date: 2009 Image ID IA004220 |
28. The first or second vertebra, after the head, of a mammoth. It would have been dredged from the sea - a fact that is obvious, to the expert, from its colour and ... Image ID IA004225_VERTEBRA |
29. Mirror that was broken by the earthquake 22 April 1884, donated to the Museum January 2012.
A note on the back of the mirror says
"This Mirror is a ... Date: 29 June 1884 Image ID IA004542 |
30. The Museum's telephone box on the move, prior to repainting. Transport provided by Duncan Pittock. Date: 19 January 2016 Image ID IA01_525 |