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Mersea Museum has a large collection of images, mainly of Mersea Island
and the surrounding area.
Those shown here are a small sample.
The images are divided into categories - click on
a Category to view a selection.
Each year, a selection of the images with an accompanying audiocommentary form an audio-visual display that is run when the Museum is open.
If you can add to the information we have about an image, such as the names
of the people, the place or the date, please
Email us.
The collection is always increasing thanks to the kindness of may individuals.
If you have photographs that are suitable for our collection, we would be
pleased to hear from you. We can just take a digital copy of a
photograph and return the original to you.
The images above are copyright Mersea Island Museum unless otherwise stated.
![Aveling Porter Ploughing Engine with Cecil Baldwin on the left and Charles Polley on the right [though Ron Green who knew Cecil, thinks he is Cecil on the right]. They both worked for Fairhead of Peldon for several years.
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Charles was the older brother of Pat Polley - great grandfather of Helen Jones who sent the picture. She says he worked the engines for many years, even in the 1939 Census. He liked a drink, and playing the squeeze box. The Polley family were very close to the Howard family who also worked on the engines and were also from Ardleigh.
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Some of the registration number is just visible - NO66 .. NO registrations were issued in Essex between January 1921 and July 1923.
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One of a pair of Aveling & Porter, 8hp, compound, steam ploughing engines, numbers 9147 & 9148, new in June 1920, purchased second-hand by William G. Fairhead's descendants in August 1922. (William died in October 1918) They were given the road registrations NO6694 and NO6695. </i>
[From the Archivist - <a href=https://steamploughclub.org.uk/ target=spc>Steam Plough Club</a>]</p> After January 1921. Photo: Helen Jones](MMThumbnails34/FHP_003.jpg "Aveling Porter Ploughing Engine with Cecil Baldwin on the left and Charles Polley on the right [though Ron Green who knew Cecil, thinks he is Cecil on the right]. They both worked for Fairhead of Peldon for several years.
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Charles was the older brother of Pat Polley - great grandfather of Helen Jones who sent the picture. She says he worked the engines for many years, even in the 1939 Census. He liked a drink, and playing the squeeze box. The Polley family were very close to the Howard family who also worked on the engines and were also from Ardleigh.
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Some of the registration number is just visible - NO66 .. NO registrations were issued in Essex between January 1921 and July 1923.
</p><p><i>
One of a pair of Aveling & Porter, 8hp, compound, steam ploughing engines, numbers 9147 & 9148, new in June 1920, purchased second-hand by William G. Fairhead's descendants in August 1922. (William died in October 1918) They were given the road registrations NO6694 and NO6695. </i>
[From the Archivist - <a href=https://steamploughclub.org.uk/ target=spc>Steam Plough Club</a>]</p> After January 1921. Photo: Helen Jones")
![Birch Church c1905. <b>This church is about to be demolished! Feb 2014</b>
The back of the card is divided, saying this space may now be used for communication - a change introduced in 1902.
The church is now [2013] derelict.
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February 2014 the church is likely to be demolished. There is a petition to try and save it. Colchester & NE Essex Building Preservation Trust have written:
St Peter's Church, Birch has stood empty for more than 24 years.
It is now derelict and the Diocese of Chelmsford wish to demolish it.
The Trust is campaigning to save the building and has recently completed a viability study. This has identified a proposal to convert most of the building into a family home.
Regrettably, despite having found a willing buyer for the church who is prepared to spend £1,200,000 restoring this iconic landmark, the Church Commissioners in consultation with the Diocese of Chelmsford, have decided to proceed with their plans to demolish.
In our opinion, this is unnecessary destruction of local heritage. The resultant harm will not only be in the loss of this Grade II listed building but also the detrimental impact of the loss on the Birch Conservation Area and the surrounding landscape.
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<p>Sign a petition to save the church:
<a href=http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-birch-church.html target=_new>
www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-birch-church.html</a> (Opens in a new window) c1905.](MMThumbnails21/RG03_707.jpg "Birch Church c1905. <b>This church is about to be demolished! Feb 2014</b>
The back of the card is divided, saying this space may now be used for communication - a change introduced in 1902.
The church is now [2013] derelict.
</p>
<p>
February 2014 the church is likely to be demolished. There is a petition to try and save it. Colchester & NE Essex Building Preservation Trust have written:
St Peter's Church, Birch has stood empty for more than 24 years.
It is now derelict and the Diocese of Chelmsford wish to demolish it.
The Trust is campaigning to save the building and has recently completed a viability study. This has identified a proposal to convert most of the building into a family home.
Regrettably, despite having found a willing buyer for the church who is prepared to spend £1,200,000 restoring this iconic landmark, the Church Commissioners in consultation with the Diocese of Chelmsford, have decided to proceed with their plans to demolish.
In our opinion, this is unnecessary destruction of local heritage. The resultant harm will not only be in the loss of this Grade II listed building but also the detrimental impact of the loss on the Birch Conservation Area and the surrounding landscape.
</p>
<p>Sign a petition to save the church:
<a href=http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-birch-church.html target=_new>
www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-birch-church.html</a> (Opens in a new window) c1905.")
