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5 of 57 Slide Show Running Coastguard Station, Tollesbury, in Mell Road. A stone on the left gable has the date 1879. Postcard. Dorothy Davison wrote to say her great grandfather James Edwin Joyce was a Coastguard at Tollesbury. He was in the navy and then started work in Tollesbury 1880 as a naval coastguard. Dorothy's grandmother Elizabeth Welsh Joyce was born Tollesbury in 1881 and her brothers Thomas 1884, Charles Joyce 1885. James was later posted to Harwich and Clacton. He had a total of 10 children. Photo: Mersea Museum - Cedric Gurton Tollesbury Image ID CG10_457 Category 1 Tollesbury-->Buildings | |
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