Unloading manure from barge THE WORLD - believed to be at Maylandsea. Postmarked 15 June 1920.

Ron wrote the following article for Maldon & Heybridge Life, April 2015.
My postcard for this month shows the barge THE WORLD discharging a cargo of manure. I'm not sure of the location but I think it's Maylandsea.

The card was posted from Althorne on 15th July 1920 and the writer was staying with Mr Brooks, Mill Road, Maylandsea.
It is interesting to see two other barges tucked away in little berths in the saltings - probably loading hay for shipment to London.
The name J. Fels can just be read on the side of the two wagons. Joseph Fels was an American millionaire who bought a farm in Mayland at the end of the First World War, to provide a place where unemployed men and their families could come to grow vegetables.

The barge THE WORLD belonged to Charles Murrell of London about this time, who was responsible for barging Westminster's rubbish. She was built at Brentford in 1881 - the lack of sheer on her suggests she would have been more suited to London River work than the open sea. I doubt if she would have taken on such work in the winter months.

Date: Before June 1920