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This database contains some of the books and papers held by Mersea Museum.
Found 467 files - displaying 201 to 250
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Article |
Women's Institute Halls |
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ML2019_008_022 |
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Title |
Women's Institute Halls |
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Abstract |
Two Ladies recently called in to the Museum asking what we had on the early days of West Mersea Women's Institute. Something they said was of special interest to me as they believed the present headquarters in Kingsland Road was put up by the army in 1939. I knew it wasn't put up until after the War ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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202 |
Article |
The Dad's Army of Mersea |
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ID |
CNS_005_025 |
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Title |
The Dad's Army of Mersea |
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Peter Tucker of Norfolk Avenue was a member of the Home Guard prior to his service in the RAF in 1942 at the tender age of 17.
He tells the story of his time there.
May I as a former member of the LOCAL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS, L.D.V. to give them their correct title, and later the Home ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Published |
June 2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Foresters of Mersea and Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_AOF |
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Title |
The Foresters of Mersea and Peldon |
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Abstract |
Ancient Order of Foresters: Court 5105
According to A History of Court Sailors' Home, West Mersea 1867 -1967 by Sybil Brand, The 'Court Sailors' Home', West Mersea, was founded on 4th S ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
18 June 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mark Hyam 1889 - 1990 |
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ID |
IYS_031 |
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Title |
Mark Hyam 1889 - 1990 |
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Mark Hyam was son of Samuel Hyam (1839 - 1916) who started a grocery business in Peldon. The shop was later run by Mark's half-brother Clem.
Mark was born in Peldon 25 May 1889 to parents Samuel and Eliza. Eliza was Samuel's second wife. In 1891 the family were living in The Shop in ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Fenns of Lower Road |
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ID |
PH01_FEN |
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Title |
The Fenns of Lower Road |
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If you looked west to east along the left hand side of Lower Road 100 years ago, the buildings then standing would have been Spring Cottage, (nursery and Post Office), the Methodist Chapel next door then an open field until The Plough Inn. Part of the field became known as 'Garden Field' and was ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Clifford White & Co Empire |
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ID |
ML2019_006_022 |
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Title |
The Clifford White & Co Empire |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane The Clifford White & Co Empire
In the May issue I mentioned Samuel White's son Clifford Manning White who was a prominent businessman on Mersea Island. He started his building business early in the 20th century and in the 1911 census for West Mersea he is listed as a Builder ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
June 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Percy William Mortlock |
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ID |
IYS_009 |
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Title |
Percy William Mortlock |
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Abstract |
MORTLOCK, PERCY WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Regiment: Northamptonshire Regiment, 2nd battalion, 24th Brigade, 8th Division
Age 16
Date of death 14 March 1915
Service ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Arthur George Whiting |
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ID |
IYS_169 |
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Title |
Arthur George Whiting |
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Abstract |
WHITING, ARTHUR GEORGE
Rank: Private
Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment 1st/8th Battalion. 144th Brigade, ... |
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Author |
Ted Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Alfred George Baldwin |
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ID |
IYS_185 |
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Title |
Alfred George Baldwin |
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Abstract |
BALDWIN, ALFRED GEORGE
Rank: Private
Regiment: Duke of Wellington's 9th battalion (West Riding ... |
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Mersea Museum / Edwin Sparrow
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Article |
Essex during The French Wars: The Fear of Invasion |
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ID |
PH01_NAP |
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Title |
Essex during The French Wars: The Fear of Invasion |
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Abstract |
We may think that the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars impinged very little on the lives of Peldon villagers living in such a tiny rural community at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. However, the wars were to impact lives all along the East Coast, most ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
May 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The White Family of shopkeepers |
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ID |
ML2019_005_019 |
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Title |
The White Family of shopkeepers |
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Abstract |
The first shop on the Island, opposite 'Top Chapel' in Mill Road. Photo from Tony Saye
William White came to West Mersea from Dedham in the 1840s. He is recorded in the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon and The Boer War - Herbert Augustine Christopher Harrison |
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ID |
PH01_HAR |
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Title |
Peldon and The Boer War - Herbert Augustine Christopher Harrison |
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Abstract |
Llanelwedd, Radnorshire is a long way from Peldon and yet there is a connection between the two villages spanning close to 140 years. Walk into the church of St Matthew, Llanelwedd, and you come across a brass plaque commemorating a young twenty-four year old man, Herbert Augustine Christopher ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Mersea shops |
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ID |
ML2019_004_090 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Mersea shops |
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Abstract |
Following on from my last month's visit to Mersea shops in the 1940s which gained quite a few favourable comments, I thought I would look at a few more.
I mentioned Katie White's little shop on Queen's Corner which sold a wide range of sweets, toys and other goodies. Katie was a little old ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Red Hills |
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ID |
DIS2012_RDH |
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Title |
Red Hills |
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Red Hills are low mounds, found near creeks and rivers, composed of soil burnt red in marked contrast to the clay on which they stand.
Over 300 red hill sites have been identified in Essex, but many have disappeared. However, they can still be found. There is one within a few yards of the ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Laid up Shell tankers in River Blackwater |
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ID |
SHP_STL |
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Title |
Laid up Shell tankers in River Blackwater |
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Abstract |
£90 a day to keep an out-of-work ship
The retired tanker skipper, now recalled, stared through the shop window on the beach at the idle fleet in the Blackwater estuary.
One quarter of the British cargo ship tonnage, for which no work can be found, is laid up in the Essex ri ... |
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17 April 1958
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon People - The Coans |
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ID |
PH01_COA |
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Title |
Peldon People - The Coans |
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Local farmers, brothers Colin and Eric Coan, were both born in Peldon, in 1941 and 1942 respectively. Their parents were Reginald Victor Walter Coan who was born in Walthamstow in 1908 and Evelyn Rose Gladwell of the Gladwell family from Peldon.
The Coan Family
On the Co ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon School |
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ID |
PH01_SCH |
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Title |
Peldon School |
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Abstract |
Although we have no school in Peldon now, and younger children usually go to West Mersea or Langenhoe while older children attend Thurstable, Stanway or Thomas Lord Audley, Peldon did have its own Church Of England school for over a hundred years. The Victorian-style building was erected in 1833 on ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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February 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Post Offices |
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ID |
PH01_GPO |
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Title |
Peldon Post Offices |
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Although Peldon no longer has a Post Office, the last one closing down in 2002 when the Village Shop closed, it has had a number of Post Offices; in the bakery, residential houses, attached to garden nurseries, and even in the Village Hall.
The first penny postage stamp ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - builder's boy on a bike |
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ID |
ML2019_003_L22 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - builder's boy on a bike |
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Abstract |
On leaving school in 1946 I went to Clifford White and Co (Builders) to start an apprenticeship. The war had just ended and men were returning and coming back to their old jobs. There were shortages of everything and rationing was still very much with us. If a local pub got a delivery of beer the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Lewis Taylor Gibb and a Tale of two paintings. |
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ID |
LTG |
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Lewis Taylor Gibb and a Tale of two paintings. |
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Thanks to the generosity of an important London museum, Mersea Museum acquired in 2018 two attractive new exhibits. These are two landscape paintings by the artist Lewis Taylor Gibb (1873-1945). Both are small oil paintings on canvas; one is titled "The River Stour near Dedham" the other simply "The ... |
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Author |
David Nicholls |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - the barge JOY and her boat |
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ID |
ML2019_002_L20 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the barge JOY and her boat |
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The first picture is from the archives of the Society for Sailing Barge Research and shows the barge JOY at Saltcote Wharf, Heybridge. The photo is from 1956 and shows the barge after her conversion to a ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
John Scales Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
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ID |
OOD_209 |
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Title |
John Scales Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
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Abstract |
John Scales
Flying Officer (Pilot): Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve: 466 (R.A.A.F.) Squadron
Date of ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
ww2 |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Alexander Erskine Hope - died 2 October 1944 |
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ID |
OOD_120 |
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Title |
Alexander Erskine Hope - died 2 October 1944 |
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Abstract |
Alexander Erskine Hope
Lieutenant Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment: "B" Company, 9th Battalion.: ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
George Alfred Taylor, Royal Armoured Corps |
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ID |
OOD_118 |
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Title |
George Alfred Taylor, Royal Armoured Corps |
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George Alfred Taylor
Lance Serjeant; "A" Squadron., 24th Lancers. Royal Armoured Corps
Age 24
Date of Death 8 June 1944
Service Number, 319743
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Author |
Edwin Sarrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
John Hodson |
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ID |
OOD_114 |
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Title |
John Hodson |
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John Hodson: Signalman 4 L. of C., Royal Corps of Signals
Lost in the SS SCILLIN 14 November 1942 Age 27.
Service Number 2592549
John was son of Thomas and May ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Bernard Harry Harrington |
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ID |
OOD_113 |
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Title |
Bernard Harry Harrington |
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Abstract |
HARRINGTON, BERNARD HARRY
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: Royal Artillery ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
John Charles Farthing - Engineer on MV GOLDEN GRAIN |
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ID |
OOD_016 |
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Title |
John Charles Farthing - Engineer on MV GOLDEN GRAIN |
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Abstract |
WW2 Memorial Profiles for West Mersea
JOHN CHARLES FARTHING
Engineer Officer
Merchant Navy MV GOLDEN GRAIN (Harwich)
Died 19 August 1941 age 52.
Commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial to the men of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets.
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Alfred Edmund Keeble - died when GOLDEN GRAIN was lost |
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ID |
OOD_017 |
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Title |
Alfred Edmund Keeble - died when GOLDEN GRAIN was lost |
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Abstract |
Keeble Alfred Edmund
The Mate on the MV GOLDEN GRAIN (Harwich), Merchant Navy
Died 19 August 1941. Age 40.
Son of Alfred and Lilian Keeble; ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sidney George Mallett - died when GOLDEN GRAIN was lost |
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ID |
OOD_015 |
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Sidney George Mallett - died when GOLDEN GRAIN was lost |
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Abstract |
MALLETT, SIDNEY GEORGE
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Master
Merchant Navy : M.V. GOLDEN GRAIN (Harwich)
Age: 60
Date of Death: 19 August ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
sydney |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Walter Heap - lost on HMS QUORN WW2 |
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ID |
OOD_034 |
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Title |
Walter Heap - lost on HMS QUORN WW2 |
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Abstract |
THE LOSS OF HMS QUORN
HEAP Walter: Petty Officer Stoker Royal Navy: H.M.S. Quorn: Age: ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Charles Henry South - lost when SS MEREL was mined |
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ID |
OOD_006 |
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Charles Henry South - lost when SS MEREL was mined |
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Abstract |
THE SINKING OF S. S. MEREL 8 December 1939
SOUTH, Charles Henry. Boatswain, S.S. Merel (London), Merchant Navy. 8 December 1939: Age 58.
Husband of Charlotte South, of Tollesbury, Essex. The 1901 census shows Charles Henry South aged 19 Essex born & living at Tollesbury working ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Anthony Driffield Seabrook - lost on HMS RAWALPINDI |
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ID |
OOD_005 |
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Anthony Driffield Seabrook - lost on HMS RAWALPINDI |
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SEABROOK Anthony Driffield. Acting Sub Lieutenant: Royal Naval Reserve: H.M.S. Rawalpindi: Age: 21: Date of Death: 23/11/1939. He ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wilfred Frank Pettican - lost on HMS RAWALPINDI. |
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ID |
OOD_004 |
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Wilfred Frank Pettican - lost on HMS RAWALPINDI. |
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PETTICAN Wilfred Frank Seaman: Royal Naval Reserve: H.M.S. RAWALPINDIi: Date of Death: 23/11/1939: Service No: C/6072D
The 1911 Census shows Wilfred Frank Pettican was born in 1905. Frank as he was known had been an engineer on yachts. Both Hector Ingate & Wilfred Pettican were keen ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Hector Ingate - lost on HMS RAWALPINDI |
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ID |
OOD_003 |
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Title |
Hector Ingate - lost on HMS RAWALPINDI |
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INGATE Hector. Seaman: Royal Naval Reserve: H.M.S. Rawalpindi: Age: 39 Date of Death: 23/11/1939: Service No: C/6075D. He had lost 3 brothers in World War ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The loss of HMS RAWALPINDI 23 November 1939 |
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OOD_002 |
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The loss of HMS RAWALPINDI 23 November 1939 |
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Three local men were amongst the crew - Hector Ingate, Wilfred Frank Pettican and Anthony Driffield Seabrook
HMS RAWALPINDI was a P&O ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon in WW1 from the school logbooks |
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ID |
PH01_SLB |
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Peldon in WW1 from the school logbooks |
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As one would expect, Peldon School logbook concentrates on aspects of teaching and staffing, poor behaviour and absenteeism, bad weather, problems with the buildings, heating and ventilation, visits by the Rector, school managers, Attendance and Sanitary Officers and the annual inspector's report. ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Mason Family of Hill House, Peldon |
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PH01_MHH |
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Title |
The Mason Family of Hill House, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Alfred and Sarah Mason of Hill House, Peldon, (now known as Malting ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Researching the History of Your House |
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PH01_RYH |
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Title |
Researching the History of Your House |
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Abstract |
The following article was written for Peldon Parish Magazine
I'm sure many of you, like me, were riveted by the David Olusoga series called A House Through Time where he researched the lives of the
people who lived in a particular house in Liverpool. My interest in the histo ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon People - Ernie Richardson |
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PH01_ERC |
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Peldon People - Ernie Richardson |
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A well-known local eccentric, Ernie Richardson, lived on a boat along from Strood Villa, also known as Pyefleet House. He lived by the sea wall, over the road from Bonners Barn, on a flat-bottomed boat barely 3 foot deep. Russell Martin, the farmer at Moor Farm nearby, said the boat only needed ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
November 2018
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Honeysuckle Cottage, Peldon - The History of a House |
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ID |
PH01_HSC |
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Honeysuckle Cottage, Peldon - The History of a House |
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Abstract |
In maps from the early twentieth century, along the south side of Peldon's Lower Road, there are only five houses, Brickhouse ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon People - John Linnett Clark |
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ID |
PH01_JLC |
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Title |
Peldon People - John Linnett Clark |
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Abstract |
John Linnett Clark seated
OLD INHABITANT'S DEATH
A ZEPPELIN'S FALL RECALLED
Peldon has lost an ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
clarke |
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Published |
November 2018
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon People - Golden and Charlie Simpson |
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ID |
PH01_GCS |
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Title |
Peldon People - Golden and Charlie Simpson |
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Abstract |
Golden (1863 - 1939) and Charles Simpson (1870 - 1947) were names well-known to Peldon and Mersea folk at the end of the nineteenth
century and the first few decades of the twentieth. Brothers, they were born and bred in Peldon, their father, Charles, a General dealer.
Golden became a bricklayer ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Cudmore Grove |
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ID |
ML2018_012_L20 |
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Title |
Cudmore Grove |
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Abstract |
I am often asked how Cudmore Grove got it's name. My first knowledge of this area is from the 1930s and of warm summer evenings when my family would visit Auntie Nellie and her family in East Mersea for tea. After tea we would set off for a walk which usually took us to The Bowling Green, a flat ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Spring Wyncoll |
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ID |
PH01_SPR |
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Title |
Spring Wyncoll |
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Abstract |
TWO SPRINGS, A PENNY FARTHING and A PEDALO!
This research is a funny old business! You set off in one direction and before you know it you've gone down a
totally different path!
This particular path involves my research into a man called Spring Wyncoll.
I set off on ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Geoffrey Maurice Wooldridge 1909 - 1976 |
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ID |
PH01_GMW |
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Title |
Geoffrey Maurice Wooldridge 1909 - 1976 |
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Abstract |
Geoff was born in Kent on 31 July 1909, the second child of Elizabeth (Bessie) and Maurice Wooldridge. His sisters Aline, Eva and Dora were also born in Kent. During the first world war, his mother became nervous about the fighting in France and the family moved first to Hertfordshire, where his ... |
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Author |
Anne Lee |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Hall Cottage |
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ID |
PH01_PHC |
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Title |
Peldon Hall Cottage |
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Abstract |
In 1965 when Chris and Archie Moore bought Pink Cottage, subsequently called Peldon Hall Cottage, the village hall next door (the old 1833 school building) was being demolished. Ever resourceful, Archie bought 1000 bricks for £10 and used them to build their extension at home! There was also ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Wooldridges of Kemps Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_KSF |
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Title |
The Wooldridges of Kemps Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
From the early 1930s to the 1960s a family called the Wooldridges farmed at Kemps Farm. Maurice and Bessie Wooldridge moved to Peldon in about 1930 with their family of five, Stephen, Geoffrey, Dora, Aline and Eva. At the time of writing (September 2018), Dora is still alive, having just passed her ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
October 2018
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Mallett Family; Sailors and Shopkeeper. |
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ID |
PH01_FLX |
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Title |
The Mallett Family; Sailors and Shopkeeper. |
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Abstract |
This month we are happy to congratulate Horace Mallet of 1, Council Houses, Mersea Road, Peldon, who will be 90 years old on 6th March - born 1884; still going strong. His father William was a sailor, but when he married, he returned to the dry land and took to thatching and other rural ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
October 2018
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A Peldon Smuggler - Daniel Rich |
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ID |
PH01_DRH |
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Title |
A Peldon Smuggler - Daniel Rich |
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Abstract |
Tales of smuggling in Peldon always centre on the pond by the Peldon Rose where the story of a shaft down which casks were dropped and hidden, defying discovery by the Revenue men, has been retold many times.
The story told by Jane Pullen, landlady of The Peldon Rose between 1881 and ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2018
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - school teachers |
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ID |
ML2018_010_L21 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - school teachers |
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Abstract |
The museum recently had a visit from Anne Lee and her husband from New
Zealand. The visit was arranged by Peldon historian Elaine Barker who is
looking into the history of Kemps Farm, where Anne, a member of the
Wooldridge family, grew up. During the conversation Anne spoke of her
Aunt Dora ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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