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Smack 349CK SYBIL on the Hard at West Mersea. Photo 105192.
Built Aldous, Brightlingsea, 1901 for Charles Chatters. 27 June 1932 sold to Edwin Chatters, John Chatters & Percy Arthur Chatters (master). 15 April 1948 No longer fishing and 1949 sold as yacht. She still existed in 1998 as yacht SYBIL.
</p> <p> As SYBIL OF WIVENHOE she is on the National Register of Historic Ships <a href=https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/3596/sybil-wivenhoe target=nrs>www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk</a>
</p><p>Photograph sent to the Museum September 2020. Donor unknown!
</p>
Girl Guides Keills III 1949. cAugust 1949. Photo: Girl Guides
Hutton's first lorry. Second from the left is Bill French, father of Peter French who donated the photograph.
The lorry is a Commer - Hutton & Son, Builders and Contractors, Birch. Colchester. Photo: Peter French - Birch
The Station Road. View on the North Side of the Queen's Estate, West Mersea.
Station Road is the present-day East Road. Garden Farm is on the right.
One of the photographs used in Queen's Estates Souvenir brochure, advertising the sale on 24 August 1907 of a number of building plots in West Mersea. The brochure is in Mersea Museum archives. Before August 1907.
The ash tree at the bottom of Great Wigborough Rectory in 1944. Mersea in the distance.
Hay is being gathered in the field below, Haycocks are being loaded on the cart - horse drawn. Many farms could not afford or did not want to use tractors at this time.
</p> Photo: Yates Family
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