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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
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Article |
Fid Harnack - Marine Artist |
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ID |
FID_042 |
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Title |
Fid Harnack - Marine Artist |
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Abstract |
Fid Harnack, Marine Artist
John Leather paints a portrait in print
From Yachts and Yachting
A quarter century ago, rowing a pram dinghy around the evening anchorage under Mersea Stone, at the mouth of the river Colne, ... |
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Author |
John Leather |
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Keywords |
buzzun, besom |
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Published |
6 January 1976
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough |
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ID |
LWG_GRV |
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Title |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough
Grove Farm on Copt Hall Lane in Little Wigborough, situated near an ancient piece of woodland called Copt
Hall Grove, is a grade II listed early seventeenth century farmhouse. In 1922 the Royal Commission on
Historical Monuments described it thus
Grove ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett |
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ID |
MSH_LNY |
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Title |
Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett |
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Abstract |
MEMORIES OF A LANEY
by Harry Thomas Mussett
THE CITY HALL
On Thursday afternoons, at the City Hall, there used to be a Women's meeting. Mother said, "You don't have to
go to school this afternoon. You can come to the Meeting with me." Well, anything was better than going to
school, so ... |
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Author |
Harry Thomas Mussett |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like |
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ID |
COR1_175_A01 |
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Title |
WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like |
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Abstract |
Who do you think you are kidding ?
Letter by Peter Tucker in Courier 175, in response to an article in Courier 172. [The article is in Mersea Museum
archives but is not yet available here].
Dear Editor
I had hoped that it would not be necessary for me
to write again on this ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Published |
c1998
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner. |
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ID |
EAM_1965_005_A01 |
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Title |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner. |
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Abstract |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner.
From East Anglian Magazine May 1965
Transcribed by Joe Vince July 2024
A small Essex village forms a link with the Gunpowder Plot
The marshes; mud, grass, sea lavender, salt water, ... |
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Author |
Eric Rayner |
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Keywords |
salcot |
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Published |
May 1965
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family |
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ID |
FBN_WHB_001 |
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Title |
'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family |
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Abstract |
The Essex County Standard in November 1999 featured a rare envelope, which was to be sold at auction in London on 16th December. The letter's rarity was due to it having been sent by someone serving with the British Army on the Chin Lushai Expedition of 1880 - 1890. Its local connection was the fact ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day. |
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ID |
EC69_10_A01 |
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Title |
Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day. |
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Abstract |
PERSONALLY SPEAKING by James Wentworth Day
Wily as a fox, silent as the otter, hardy as the wild goose, with the ears of an owl and the sight
of a falcon, Ted Allen was the genius of the marsh, of the wide and deadly mud flats, a stalker of the
creeks and a son of the salt tides.
I ... |
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Author |
James Wentworth Day |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea's Working Horses |
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ID |
ML2024_008_065 |
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Title |
Mersea's Working Horses |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Mersea's working horses
Apart from the farm horses, there were still a number of horses working with local businesses on Mersea in my
memory. I started work with Clifford White & Co. Builders in 1946 and at that time there were two horses stabled in the Barfield Road yard. Tony, ... |
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Published |
August 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The May Family from Willoughy John Bean |
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ID |
FBQ_104 |
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Title |
The May Family from Willoughy John Bean |
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Abstract |
The May Family. Vol III Page 1
Transcribed from 21 handwritten pages, thought to have been written by Willoughby John Bean.
The pages end abruptly - page 22 has not been found.
Documents with thanks to Alan Brook, whose father had lived in West Mersea Hall. Transcribed by Elaine
Barker
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Author |
Willoughby John Bean |
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Published |
1930s
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside |
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ID |
EC65_09_A01 |
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Title |
Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside |
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Abstract |
ROUND MERSEA ISLAND. Afoot in Essex (6) by Frank Dawes.
From Essex Countryside magazine September 1965.
Mersea is the only Essex island to lift its head at all proudly out of the sea. The others - Foulness, Canvey,
Wallasea and a great many smaller ones - lie abject and half - drowned, ... |
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Author |
Frank Dawes |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages |
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ID |
LCM_C21 |
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Title |
21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages |
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Abstract |
The following 21st century writers all have connections with Mersea Island, whether once resident here or
using its unique character as a setting for their writing. While there are a number of auto-biographical books
based locally, it is novels set in this area that are my focus here.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
June 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman |
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ID |
FWS |
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Title |
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman |
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Abstract |
The article below is from the D-Day Display in Mersea Museum 2024 Summer Exhibition.
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ransomes Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_RES |
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Title |
Ransomes Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Ransomes Farm
Ransomes farmhouse situated on the Wigborough Road between Peldon and the Wigboroughs is a chocolate box Essex
farmhouse surrounded by large beautiful gardens and backing onto fields which offer views of Copt Grove, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
24 May 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Brands. A West Mersea Seafaring Family. |
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ID |
EC71_07_A01 |
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Title |
The Brands. A West Mersea Seafaring Family. |
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Abstract |
THE BRANDS
A WEST MERSEA SEAFARING FAMILY
Sybil Brand looks back 200 years on her father's family - from the time of William who lived in the late
eighteenth century to her father, John, who died in 1941.
In the October 1970 issue of ESSEX COUNTRYSIDE I wrote of my mother's family, the ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Sea-Country of Mehalah by J. Wentworth Day |
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ID |
BJ55_001 |
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Title |
The Sea-Country of Mehalah by J. Wentworth Day |
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Abstract |
The Sea-Country of Mehalah by J. Wentworth Day.
From Geographical Magazine, date unknown
Warning if you read this article, it will tell you far too much of the story of Mehalah. Read the book first, and then the article will provide good background.!
The full article is available here ... |
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Author |
James Wentworth Day |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sabine Baring Gould The Essex Connection: Mehalah and Richard Cable |
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ID |
LCM_SBG |
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Sabine Baring Gould The Essex Connection: Mehalah and Richard Cable |
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Abstract |
Sabine Baring Gould The Essex Connection: Mehalah and Richard Cable
My current area of research is looking into writers of fiction who used the local area on and around Mersea Island in Essex, as the setting for their novels.
Perhaps the most famous is that written by The Reverend ... |
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Author |
EElaine Barker |
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Keywords |
broadmarsh |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Friendly Port of Colchester |
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ID |
EC63_02_A02 |
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Title |
The Friendly Port of Colchester |
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Abstract |
The Friendly Port of Colchester, by A.G. King.
From Essex Countryside February 1963, Page 164.
Dutch coasters at Colchester laden with clay. The total volume of merchandise handled at Colchester port inwards and outwards in one ... |
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Author |
A.G. King |
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Published |
February 1963
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A. Ludgater - Literary Connections to the Blackwater area |
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ID |
LCM_LUD |
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Title |
A. Ludgater - Literary Connections to the Blackwater area |
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Abstract |
Alfred Ludgater: Mistress of Broad Marsh
Alfred Ludgater, the author of the novel Mistress of Broad Marsh, was a local man, born in Tolleshunt D'Arcy in 1858 to Samuel Ludgater, a tailor, and wife Sarah who were both also born in D'Arcy. His antecedents were Quakers from Coggeshall.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Sent as article on literary connections to Mersea and environs Ludgater.docx
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Article |
Memory Lane - Mersea Island Golf Club |
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ID |
ML2024_005_061 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Mersea Island Golf Club |
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Abstract |
MERSEA ISLAND GOLF CLUB
I was delighted to see on Facebook the Golf Club advertising notice that Toni Vince found in papers belonging to her Grandfather, William Brunt.
My first connection with this club, strangely enough, was before ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Margery Allingham - Mistral Magazine |
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ID |
MIS_2005_A30 |
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Title |
Margery Allingham - Mistral Magazine |
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Abstract |
Article published in ... |
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Author |
Sylvia Gower |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Margery Allingham - literary connections to Mersea |
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ID |
LCM_AHM |
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Title |
Margery Allingham - literary connections to Mersea |
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Abstract |
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
Many of you will have read novels by Margery Allingham or seen dramatizations on TV; perhaps her most famous series of books feature the quirky detective Albert Campion. Eight of her Campion mysteries were televised in 1989 and 1990 across two series starring Peter ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh |
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ID |
MIS_2021_A36 |
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Title |
Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh |
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Abstract |
DRAINAGE
It's amazing how quickly the headlines change
..... Brexit ........ Flooding ........ Coronavirus .......
Article published in ... |
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Author |
Sarah Shehadeh |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Dora Greenwell McChesney - literary connections to Mersea |
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ID |
LCM_DMY |
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Title |
Dora Greenwell McChesney - literary connections to Mersea |
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Abstract |
Literary connections to Mersea
Dora Greenwell McChesney
I first became aware of American author, Dora Greenwell McChesney (1871 - 1912), following the chance finding by a researcher friend of an article Dora had written about Mersea Island in the Wichita Eagle newspaper dated 16th November ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Salcot Wigborough and Salcot Virley: Salmon's Essex 1740 |
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ID |
TBM_SAL_103 |
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Title |
Salcot Wigborough and Salcot Virley: Salmon's Essex 1740 |
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Abstract |
SALCOT WIGBOROUGH and SALCOT VIRLEY: Salmon's Essex 1740
[Nathaniel Salmon (1675 - 1742) was an antiquarian who wrote a number of books on local history, principally Hertfordshire, Surrey and Essex.]
Page 439
Salcot Wigborough - a hamlet of Great Wigborough contains about 140 ... |
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Author |
Nathaniel Salmon |
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Published |
1740
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The House of Marney: John Goodwin alias Sidney David Gowing |
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ID |
LCM_GNG |
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Title |
The House of Marney: John Goodwin alias Sidney David Gowing |
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Abstract |
The House of Marney: John Goodwin (alias Sidney David Gowing)
John Goodwin was a nom de plume for author Sidney David Gowing (1877 - 1943) who lived for a few years on Mersea Island - his widow was to stay on Mersea until her death in 1969. Below is the only picture I have found of Gowing, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Village Pump |
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ID |
PH01_PMP |
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Title |
Peldon Village Pump |
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Abstract |
Peldon Village Pump
The remains of the village pump as it is today (2019)
We still have the fly wheel part of Peldon's village pump visible near the village sign next to The Plough on Lower Road. For many years the pump supplied ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Grannie's Playground |
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ID |
ML2024_001_051 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Grannie's Playground |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Grannie's Playground
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
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Work has started - and stopped - on the fence of the enclosure along Coast Road known locally as 'Grannie's Playground'. The reason is the concern ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Archaeological investigations at Brierley Paddocks Development |
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ID |
BPD_CLM |
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Title |
Archaeological investigations at Brierley Paddocks Development |
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Abstract |
Archaeological Investigations at Brierley Paddocks, West Mersea
The Brierley Paddocks development was on land between Cross Lane and Seaview Avenue. There had to be an
archaeological investigation on the site, and as was expected, there were some interesting find.
In October 2023 Callum ... |
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Author |
Callum Allsop |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wombwell's Menagerie |
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ID |
WWL_MGR |
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Title |
Wombwell's Menagerie |
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Abstract |
Wombwell's Menagerie
I'd long been aware that the internationally famous travelling Wombwell's Menagerie, which operated from circa 1805 up to the 1930s, had links with the Wombwell family living in Tollesbury and thought I'd like to know more!
How do the Wombwells ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wigborough Farm Names Project |
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ID |
CW12 |
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Title |
Wigborough Farm Names Project |
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Abstract |
Wigborough Farms, Houses, Crofts
and Tenements 1595 to 1940
Reproduced with kind permission of James Pullen - West Mersea
Great Wigborough boundaries have changed quite significantly over the last three centuries.
In ... |
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Author |
Carol Wyatt |
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Published |
June 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Richard Haward - Sermon by his son Joe |
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ID |
RHW_003 |
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Title |
Richard Haward - Sermon by his son Joe |
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Abstract |
I thought I would share my sermon from my father's funeral on Wednesday 18th October 2023:
"A reading from John's Gospel: "Thereafter Jesus again manifested himself to the disciples on the Sea of Tiberias; and this
was the manner in which he manifested himself: Simon Peter, and Thomas (which ... |
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Author |
Joe Haward |
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Published |
18 October 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Richard Howard - Eulogy by his wife Heather |
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ID |
RHW_002 |
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Title |
Richard Howard - Eulogy by his wife Heather |
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Abstract |
Well, what can I say about Richard? Much more than I can squeeze into the next five minutes that's for sure.
He was a man who loved his work, whether it be grading soles, counting oysters or driving loads of fish here and there
and everywhere, he would be in his element.
I first met ... |
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Author |
Heather Haward |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Richard Haward - a Mersea "gentle" man. |
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ID |
RHW_001 |
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Title |
Richard Haward - a Mersea "gentle" man. |
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Abstract |
Mersea Island has lost another one of its "gentle"men with the sad passing of Richard Haward recently.
Richard was born in 1945 to an old Mersea family going back over two hundred years on the Island, a heritage of which he was ... |
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Author |
Heather Haward |
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Keywords |
ENORI |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
In the Marshes of Old England |
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ID |
CW11_WTA |
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Title |
In the Marshes of Old England |
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Abstract |
The Wichita Daily Eagle Wichita, Kansas Sunday Morning, November 16, 1902
IN THE MARSHES OF OLD ENGLAND
Part of the little Island is Still Wild
EVER CHANGING COLOUR
Of the Lowlands by the Side of the Sea
The marsh land has lain unchanged so long, beside the ever-changing ... |
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Author |
Dora Greenwell McChesney |
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Published |
16 November 1902
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe |
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ID |
EC63_02_A01 |
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Title |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe |
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Abstract |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe
Article from Essex Countryside magazine February 1963 transcribed by Joe Vince August 2023
Where Colne and Blackwater meet stands Mersea Island, separated from the remainder of Essex by long inlets from these two rivers.
To be very truthful, the two parishes ... |
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Author |
G.W. Howe |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The police steam launch |
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ID |
JPA_001 |
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Title |
The police steam launch |
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Abstract |
The poaching of oysters is recorded in the history of the island at least from the 18th century. As early as 1789 the theft of oysters was rife enough to see the setting up of a Protection Association to regulate the oyster trade and dissuade poaching. In 1808 a watch house was built on the Cob ... |
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Author |
John Pullen-Appleby |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Preserving the 'Mersea Pea' |
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ID |
ECS_PEA |
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Title |
Preserving the 'Mersea Pea' |
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Abstract |
TIME OUT article from Essex County Standard, transcribed by Pauline Winch
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
An Urban Dream of Mersea |
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ID |
ECS_1968_MAY03_033 |
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Title |
An Urban Dream of Mersea |
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Abstract |
... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Village Green on Mersea Shore |
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ID |
ECS_VGN |
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Title |
The Village Green on Mersea Shore |
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Abstract |
WEST MERSEA will have the most unusual village green in Essex if a move by retired general practitioner Dr Alec Grant to register a 400-yard stretch of its waterfront as a public open space is successful.
Dr Grant, a past secretary of the Mersea Island Society, has carried out the registration ... |
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Published |
c1969
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Stephanie Kay Ellis |
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ID |
ML2023_008_004 |
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Title |
Stephanie Kay Ellis |
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Abstract |
Obituary
Stephanie Kay Ellis 25 February 1961 - 3 July 2023
Dearest daughter of Ron and the late Wendy, Dearest wife of Clive, loving Mum to Charlie, Dear sister of Laurence and Sherill, Auntie to Adam, Charlotte and Jessica, Dear step mother to Scott and Gemma, Dear nanny to Ben, Poppy and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ralph Mussett also known as Ralph Cutts Avis: a brief biography |
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ID |
CW7_RCA |
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Title |
Ralph Mussett also known as Ralph Cutts Avis: a brief biography |
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Abstract |
'Intrigued by a reference to Ralph Mussett in John Pullen Appleby's lecture series on the History of Mersea, I was inspired to research the family and answer the question why was Ralph known by two surnames and why did 'Cutts Avis' seem to be both his wife's maiden name and married name.'
... |
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Author |
Carol Wyatt |
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Published |
June 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Buses to Mersea |
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ID |
ML2023_007_066 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Buses to Mersea |
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Abstract |
I was born in No.6 Council House, Barfield Road in February, 1932. As soon as I was able, I was up at the front window watching the different buses of four companies passing by, so I've always had an interest in buses. It appears that the very first motor bus to run between Colchester and Mersea was ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Life - Strood Wharf |
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ID |
ML2023_006_061 |
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Title |
Mersea Life - Strood Wharf |
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Abstract |
Recently a photo was posted on a social media website showing a Berry's coach splashing through the
Strood. It raised some questions, not about the coach but the two sailing barges in the background. What were they
doing there?
Few people realise that the Strood was a busy ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wigborough's charter of 947 |
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ID |
WIG_947 |
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Title |
Wigborough's charter of 947 |
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Abstract |
Wigborough in the dim distant past........
For most of our local villages, the furthest back in time you can get documentary evidence are entries in the Domesday Book which compares the land, owners, men and animals of 1066 with the situation in 1086, the time of the survey. In it, most of ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
David W. Gallifant. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023 |
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ID |
DWG_DNS |
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Title |
David W. Gallifant. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023 |
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Abstract |
DAVID W. GALLIFANT. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023
... |
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Author |
Georgina Nicholls |
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Published |
11 May 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Plough Public House Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_PPH |
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Title |
Plough Public House Peldon |
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Abstract |
THE PLOUGH PUBLIC HOUSE, PELDON, ESSEX
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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