2014 Exhibition at Mersea Museum Mersea in 1914 - the End of an Era Before the First World War The Edwardian era and plans for a developing Mersea - railway, esplanade,temperance hotel, lecture halls, grand auditorium. "A Lovely Garden Village by the Sea". Yachting, fishing, wildfowling. Unmade roads, no electricity, no running water, no sewerage. 1914 - the beginning of the World War Volunteers join the Services, local men lost at sea -but it will all be over by Christmas. World War 1 weaponry Mersea Personalities Revd. Pierrepont Edwards MC. Mersea's fighting parson. He was Vicar of West Mersea 1898 to 1946, but in 1915 he was a military chaplain at Gallipoli. West Mersea Mill A thriving business in Mill Road in 1914; windmill, steam mill, bakery delivering on and off the island. Along the Waterfront Houseboats, yachting, the Regatta. August 2014 - the bones are back. The urn, bones and lead box found in Mersea Barrow are on display in Mersea Museum. |