121. Barges windbound off the Promenade [Brightlingsea] [DW]
Barges windbound in Colne during a south-westerly gale. Prolonged bad weather meant loss of ...
Image ID BOXB5_012_017

122. Two barges sailing into the Colne on the flood tide. One already brailing her sails in readiness to anchor to make the Hythe on the next flood. Two at anchor ...
Image ID BOXB5_015_001

123. A new Jewel-class 14-footer finishes in front of the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club in 1952. Walton has two aspects; its Victorian front faces the North Sea, but ...
Image ID BOXB5_015_003

124. 52 years ferrying and still going strong. Mr Mole, who has ferried ... from East Mersea to ... and back for 52 years, takes a rest from cleaning his boat, ...
Date: 15 July 1933
Image ID BOXB5_015_021

125. Brightlingsea Hard. Fitting out the fleet. [DW]
Smacks legged up while fitting out for spratting on Brightlingsea Hard. Bottoms have been scrubbed and the ...
Image ID BOXB5_017_001

126. Fitting out on Brightlingsea hard. Variation in shape of smack hulls is shown in this photograph. The underwater form was usually subtle, with a fine, ...
Date: 3 November 1934
Image ID BOXB5_017_005

127. The 250ft long, four masted cargo schooner GLORIA was designed and built in America during the 1914-18 war as one of many similar ships constructed for ...
Image ID BOXB5_017_021

128. FIONA CK38 oldest of the scollopers leaves for the French coast. [DW]
The ketch FIONA gets her anchor to tow out of Brightlingsea Creek, bound for the ...
Date: 1931
Image ID BOXB5_017_023

129. Oyster dredging. Smacks at Brightlingsea going out for oysters. The oyster dredgerman in Pyefleet Creek, home of the Colchester Native. [DW]
William ...
Date: 1928
Image ID BOXB5_017_031

130. Nov 3/34 spratting [DW]
Smacks fitting out for spratting on Brightlingsea hard in 1934. The cutter MASONIC, in the centre, has just been bored out to fit a ...
Date: 3 November 1934
Image ID BOXB5_017_048

131. Gulls and the scalloper P.A.G. CK2 on Brightlingsea Hard.
Used in The Sailor's Coast Page 45.
Douglas Went Photograph
From: Douglas Went photographs
Image ID BOXB9_002_004

132. As the yachtsman never sees it - wintry weather in Brightlingsea Creek.

Photograph used on front page of Essex County Standard 3 February 1940 under ...
From: Douglas Went photographs
Date: February 1940
Image ID BOXB9_002_006

133. Eel alive oh! The crew of a Dutch eel-carrier lying off Brightlingsea dip-net the cargo from the hold into perforated measures before they are boxed and ...
From: Douglas Went photographs
Image ID BOXB9_002_007

134. Launch of the 99ft wood steam yacht ANEMONE V, built by Aldous in 1906. Smack and racing yacht under repair on right.
Used in The Northseamen page 307
From: Photographs --- various
Date: c1906
Image ID BOXB9_005_007

135. The gulls wheel over the loaded smacks in Brightlingsea Creek on a misty winter's morning. A scene from the 1920s before the time of auxiliary engines, for the ...
From: Smacks
Date: 1920s
Image ID BOXB9_007_002

136. Brightlingsea, Essex. In the early morning sprats are unloaded from the smacks, in casks, rowed ashore and then conveyed by lorry to the markets. Norfolk's ...
Date: After August 1934
Image ID BOXD_001_001_001

137. Men at mastheads. Fitting out the HEARTSEASE at Brightlingsea.
James Blott, the son of a later owner, thinks she was at Brightlingsea 1937 - 1946.
Image ID BOXL_026_003_008

138. George Peggs of Brightlingsea in a typical gun punt.
Used in The Northseamen page 72.
Date: 1895
Image ID BOXP_135_072

139. MV PURBECK on the hard at Brightlingsea. She had worked for A.J. Brush in the ballast trade.
Date: 1967
Image ID CGT_001

140. Smack NEPTUNE Mr F. Banks West Mersea Dr. to D. Stone, Ship Yard Brightlingsea
To work extra to Contract Jan '09.

From Fred Banks Notebook
Date: August 1910
Image ID DC12_078

141. Smack NEPTUNE Mr F. Banks West Mersea Dr. to D. Stone, Ship Yard Brightlingsea
To work extra to Contract Jan '09.
£20 3 8d

From Fred ...
Date: August 1910
Image ID DC12_080

142. Some of the 1000 & 1 Marine Photographs and Articles by Douglas Went 1920 - 1944.
Reproduced in Magzines and Books
Douglas Went Album 1 page inside ...
Image ID DW11_002

143. Douglas Went a well known East Coast photographer. He is mainly known for his maritime pictures, but he would photograph anything.
Douglas Went ran a ...
Image ID DW11_101

144. Douglas Went 1887 - 1970. A well known East Coast photographer.
Image ID DW11_103

145. The Art of Douglas Went - a photograph in the Brightlingsea area.
From Album 2 page 42.
Image ID DW12_042_003

146. Ferryman at Brightlingsea. The boat is called BETTY - painted on the transom with the words CHARLES CHAPLIN above it. The ferryman's jersey is CAPRICE R.Y.S. ...
Image ID DW13_109

147. The ferryman with assistants on their way to the beach. D.N. Went.
Jersey is GERTRUDE R.L.Y.C.
Image ID DW13_111

148. Brightlingsea Nov. 1918. Armistice Parade ?
Date: November 1918
Image ID DW14_029

149. 1946, Petrol still rationed. Pony used to bring children to the beach.
Brightlingsea ?
Date: cJuly 1946
Image ID DW16_011

150. Pony & Trap. Brightlingsea ?
Date: c1946
Image ID DW16_017