The House of Marney by John Goodwin
Adventure story written c1925, set on Mersea and surrounding area, with barge-yacht WINDFLOWER, barges, house Mersea Holt, Walton Knoll, Isle of Sheppey. It was also made into a silent film which no longer seems to exist.

John Goodwin was a pen name for the author Sidney David Gowing born 1878. With his wife Muriel he lived at various addresses in West Mersea in the 1930s, finally in Victory Road, in a wooden house (Beacon House) on the east side just north of the folley to St Peters Road.
Date: c1925