61. L'ESPERANCE on Hard about 1918 to have her lead keel removed. The soldier is thought to be a member of the Ingleby family, who owned L'ESPERANCE in the years ...
Date: c1918
Image ID HEM_OPA_137

62. HOTSPUR
Image ID HEM_OPA_221

63. HOTSPUR - Geof Hempstead
Image ID HEM_OPA_223

64. HOTSPUR saloon with piano
Image ID HEM_OPA_529

65. Houseboats after the 1953 Flood. Houseboat MAUREEN nearest road was owned by Mrs Major, and is untouched, but Jack Botham's houseboat the WAVERLEY astern is ...
Date: cMarch 1953
Image ID HWC_AB3_031

66. Essex County Council Act, 1952. Section 110 - Houseboats
Existing Houseboats at 1st January 1952 ...
Date: 1952
Image ID IA004771

67. The Houseboats, West Mersea. Staying on HISPANIA. Another copy of this postcard was mailed 1955.
This card is used in Mersea Island by John Marriage, with ...
Date: 1938
Image ID IA01_151

68. Members of the regular company take it easy on the deck of the yacht L'ESPERANCE which is lying on the Hard awaiting removal of her lead keel before being put ...
Date: c1918
Image ID IA01_441

69. Stanley Hills looking at yacht CHARM, on its side after the 1953 Flood
Date: c1 February 1953
Image ID IA02_043

70. Houseboat DOLPHIN at West Mersea after the 1953 Flood. Ex RNLI Self Righting lifeboat.
Date: c1 February 1953
Image ID IA02_055

71. Houseboats at West Mersea after the 1953 Flood. SPRAY on the left.
Date: c1 February 1953
Image ID IA02_063

72. Houseboats at West Mersea after the 1953 Flood. CHIQUITA on her side against the ARK ROYAL. CHIQUITA was broken up, but ARK ROYAL survived.
Date: c1 February 1953
Image ID IA02_067

73. Houseboats at West Mersea at high tide the day after the 1953 Flood. CHIQUITA in centre and ARK ROYAL to the right.
Date: 1 February 1953
Image ID IA02_087

74. Houseboats at West Mersea at high tide the day after the 1953 Flood
Date: c1 February 1953
Image ID IA02_093

75. West Mersea Houseboats, Coast Road. Postcard 74707.
The SEAHORSE is pulled up on the mud but not yet in her final berth.

Postcard mailed from ...
Date: Before December 1934
Image ID IC09_277

76. Houseboat GYPSY ROSE being towed away from West Mersea, to Maylandsea where she was to be broken up. Previous attempts to get her out of her berth had failed ...
Date: 30 September 2023
Image ID IC09_341

77. Former sailing barge RESOURCEFUL being pushed into a mud berth at West Mersea, after being towed from Maldon.
She was built Mistley as a sailing barge in ...
Date: 31 October 2023
Image ID IC09_343

78. RESOURCEFUL in her berth as a houseboat at West Mersea.
Date: 31 October 2023
Image ID IC09_345

79. Coast Road, Victory Road, Victory Hotel, Burma Road, houseboats
Jack Botham Flight 9.
Date: 29 August 1965
Image ID JBA_009_215

80. Jack Botham aerial photograph 3603. Coast Road and houseboats.
Date: c1962
Image ID JBA_252

81. Jack Botham aerial photograph 2133A. Coast Road and houseboats.
Notes from elsewhere: Mrs Ed Wyatt's houseboat MEG MERRILIES lies to the left of the ...
Date: c1960
Image ID JBA_256

82. Jack Botham aerial photograph 3635. Coast road, Houseboats
1: HISPANIA 2: COLUMBINE 3: SPRAY ('Tinker' Wood's housboat) 4: MULROY 5: DIADEM 6: KISMET 7: ...
Date: 27 September 1959
Image ID JBA_264

83. Part of Jack Botham aerial photograph 3635 with houseboats identified.
1: HISPANIA 2: COLUMBINE 3: SPRAY ('Tinker' Wood's housboat) 4: MULROY 5: DIADEM 6: ...
Date: 27 September 1959
Image ID JBA_265

84. Jack Botham aerial photograph 3303. Coast Road and houseboats looking east. Victory Hotel centre left. Upper right beyond L'ESPERANCE is the ex-WD ammunition ...
Date: c1962
Image ID JBA_273

85. West Mersea houseboats. ARTEMIS in the centre L'ESPERANCE on the right.
ARTEMIS was an 81ft wooden yawl built by Summers & Payne at Southampton in 1900, ...
Date: Before 1991
Image ID LH23_231

86. Boats drawn up at the western end of Mersea beach, by Besom Creek. The boat in the centre is a coble - from the north east.
The houseboat ARTEMIS is ...
Date: Before 1991
Image ID LH23_288

87. Houseboats on Coast Road - HOTSPUR on the right. The laid up ship in the background is GIANIS MARIOS H which was in the river 6 July 1982 to 2 October 1982.
Date: cAugust 1982
Image ID LH53_043

88. Coast Road and houseboats. SEAHORSE on the left.
Date: 1980s
Image ID LH53_049

89. Houseboats, Coast Road, West Mersea, before the War. From the left can be seen the ERYCINA, the OTHONA and the smack GREBE owned by the Pullen family.
Same ...
Date: Before 1929.
Image ID LH6_004

90. MOLLIETTE at West Mersea.
Image ID LIL_AB2_031