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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 304 files - displaying 251 to 300 sorted by ID
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Article |
Monkey House Beach |
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ML2017_012_L22 |
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Title |
Monkey House Beach |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane from Ron Green with Tony Millatt and Brian Jay Mersea Island Museum
The Monkey House Beach
There have been a number of suggestions as to how the Monkey Beach got its name. The first suggestion I heard many years ago was that the little pagoda like building in the corner of ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - rising tides ? |
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ID |
ML2018_001_L21 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - rising tides ? |
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Abstract |
We are often led to believe that the tides cover the Strood more often than they used to and are getting bigger. I think the ever increasing amount of traffic could give that impression. The attached image shows a ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village. |
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ML2018_002_L19 |
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Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village. |
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Abstract |
Peldon village has enjoyed a bus service now for over one hundred years.
The changes being made by First Bus from February 18th will reduce that service to evenings and Sundays only. Those services continue under contract with Essex County Council and are not affected. The earliest motor bus to ... |
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February 2018
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - widening the Strood |
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ML2018_003_L19 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - widening the Strood |
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Abstract |
The appalling state of the Strood railings is causing a great deal of concern at the moment and doesn't give a good impression to visitors coming on to the island. We have selected two pictures from our museum archive to show work in progress when the Strood was widened and the fencing was improved ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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255 |
Article |
The Victory in the 1920s |
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ML2018_004_L19 |
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Title |
The Victory in the 1920s |
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Abstract |
Winifred and Ronnie Hone took over the Victory in 1919 and were there through the 1920s. They then moved on to start the Sailing and Social Club further down Coast Road - it is now the Coast Inn. Later in life, Winifred Hone wrote about the days at the Victory and the customers, and we are fortunate ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Seaview Avenue |
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ML2018_006_L20 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Seaview Avenue |
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Having recently moved out of Seaview Avenue after some thirty six years, I have decided to take a peek at the avenue as it was around 1911 through the camera of William Hammond of Gt. Totham. Hammond produced some very good postcards at that time and I have chosen three which give a good insight ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Life - an ideal world ? |
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ML2018_007_L20 |
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Title |
Mersea Life - an ideal world ? |
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I have no intention of standing for a seat on a local council, but if I did, and reading the letters that appear in local publications and notices on social media, my leaflet would have to go something like this. I would like to see all further development on Mersea stopped apart from some ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - deliveries by cart |
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ML2018_008_L21 |
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Memory Lane - deliveries by cart |
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Abstract |
Hector Farthing and Clifford White's coal cart
Following on from last month's article where I mentioned the deliveries made by horse and cart, ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Clifford White Undertakers |
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ML2018_009_L21 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Clifford White Undertakers |
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Abstract |
In the last issue, I mentioned Clifford White's horse drawn hearse. Although
it was last used before the War, when I started work for Clifford in 1946 it was still tucked away in the little garage by the plumber's shop. I had always hoped that it had been sold and was still in use somewhere. My ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - school teachers |
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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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Article |
Memory Lane - The Stackies |
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ML2018_011_L21 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - The Stackies |
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I am prompted to come on to this subject since a West Mersea postcard sold recently for £134.99 on ebay. It was a view is looking across The Strood towards Mersea and showing a hay barge, or Stackie as they were called, in the distance at the barge quay loaded with a huge stack of hay. Up to ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Cudmore Grove |
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ML2018_012_L20 |
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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 |
Memory Lane - the barge JOY and her boat |
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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 yacht. The wharf is now ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - builder's boy on a bike |
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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 |
Memory Lane - Mersea shops |
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ML2019_004_090 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Mersea shops |
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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 |
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 1851 census returns as a 36 year old grocer ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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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 and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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June 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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268 |
Article |
Women's Institute Halls |
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ID |
ML2019_008_022 |
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Title |
Women's Institute Halls |
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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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Keywords |
rudduck |
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August 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Paglesham Oysters. The Mersea connection. |
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ML2019_009_022 |
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Paglesham Oysters. The Mersea connection. |
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Abstract |
The recent purchase of a postcard showing a view of the Paglesham Oyster pits c 1910 led me to look out the delightful little book Toasted Cheese and Cinders by Miss Sybil Brand . I was privileged to get to know this lovely ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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September 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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270 |
Article |
The road to Colchester |
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ML2019_010_022 |
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Title |
The road to Colchester |
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Abstract |
We have for this month's subject three old postcards showing the Mersea to Colchester Road passing through Abberton. The first postcard dates from before
the First World War and shows the old Manwood Bridge where the road ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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October 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Life - a Yorkshire postcard |
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ML2019_011_077 |
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Mersea Life - a Yorkshire postcard |
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I spend many hours searching Ebay for old postcards for sale. My usual pattern starts with 'Essex', then 'Mersea'. From there I go to 'Sailing'
as my main collection is that of Thames Sailing Barges. Scrolling down recently ... |
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November 2019
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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272 |
Article |
Memory Lane. The changing face of Griffon Corner |
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ML2019_012_078 |
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Memory Lane. The changing face of Griffon Corner |
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Abstract |
With the demolition of Holly Lodge in High Street North, another landmark is disappearing from this part of West Mersea. Built by local builder Maurice Mark Thorp for his own use over one hundred years ago, it has been the home of ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Brian Maurice Jay - an appreciation by Ron Green |
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ID |
ML2020_001_004_001 |
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Title |
Brian Maurice Jay - an appreciation by Ron Green |
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Abstract |
Brian Jay died on 30th November. He was one of my dearest friends. We were mates through most of our adult life and worked together on building sites when he was still doing his apprenticeship as an electrician. We served in the Mersea Island Lions Club together and he introduced me to postcard ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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January 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - World War One Volunteers |
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ID |
ML2020_001_022 |
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Memory Lane - World War One Volunteers |
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Following all the interest shown in the Tommies on the Strood depicting the local men who gave their lives in the First World War, I have in my collection, a very battered postcard showing the Volunteers of the First World War - the equivalent of the Home Guard of the Second World War.
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Author |
Ron Green |
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1 January 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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275 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Regatta Day Pictures from Thomas Hammond |
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ML2020_002_022 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Regatta Day Pictures from Thomas Hammond |
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I have noticed that David Cox is rather puzzled by the picture Regatta Day 2 that appears in the December issue of Mersea Life. The Regatta, the 1911 one, was a one day event and the photo was No. 2 taken on the day. I have gone through my postcard collection and found the first one which is titled ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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February 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Mersea men on the water in 1915 |
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ML2020_003_022 |
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Memory Lane - Mersea men on the water in 1915 |
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Abstract |
The National Maritime Museum has put online the crew lists of all British merchant ships for the year 1915. It makes very interesting reading and has a huge amount of detail of the men, many from Mersea, serving on everything from the largest liners to sailing barges and smacks. Of particular ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Another War |
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ID |
ML2020_004_014 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Another War |
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Abstract |
It seems we are at War. With the present Coronavirus pandemic some firms are being asked to diversify and to produce ventilators for our hospitals. Looking back to World War 2, some local firms were contracted to do something similar. Builders Clifford White & Co were making wooden oars and paddles, ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Victory Day Street Party |
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ML2020_006_066 |
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Title |
Victory Day Street Party |
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Abstract |
Photographs of 1945 Victory Celebrations on Mersea are rare. but Mary Crisp née Smith loaned us a picture of the Victory Day Street Party held in the Dawes Lane - East Road area. A similar photograph from Chloe Mole recently appeared on Facebook, with a helpful board at the bottom "Victory ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Water |
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ML2020_007_075 |
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Title |
Mersea Water |
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I was born in West Mersea in February 1932 and was to drink water from the water tower for the next 33 or so years. My teeth have the brown stain under the enamel which a number of us locals (not all) have who were children during that period.
From a very detailed account published in the ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Brierley Hall Estate |
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ID |
ML2020_008_022 |
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Title |
Brierley Hall Estate |
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With the present planning issues going on for West Mersea at the moment. it is interesting to look back to the Brierley Hall Estate as laid out by architect E. Hollyer Evans of The Strand, London W.C. in 1909. From Seaview Avenue to a line one field to the East of Cross Lane there are some 480 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green / Tony Millatt |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ron Green - A Mersea Builder |
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ML2020_009_074 |
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Title |
Ron Green - A Mersea Builder |
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Abstract |
I left West Mersea Council School on April 1946 aged 14. I was to do a bricklayer apprenticeship but was unable to start officially until I was 15, so for the first year I was a labourer. However, I was laying bricks on my very first day at work. I was with my father Les and we were working for ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Unmade Roads |
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ML2020_010_073 |
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Title |
Unmade Roads |
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In August 1939 I moved with my family from the Barfield Road council house where I was born, to a new bungalow in Suffolk Avenue. It was a grass track which got very muddy in winter. There were 15 homes in the avenue ( interestingly the same number as in Empress Avenue which was much longer). ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea Brickworks |
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ML2020_011_075 |
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Title |
West Mersea Brickworks |
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West Mersea had a brickworks. In 1905 the Mersea Brick and Iron Company was advertising Red Facing Bricks and Tiles. Behind the company was a developer from London, involved in the ambitious development plans for Mersea before World War 1, but the brickworks was run by Maurice Thorp, a local ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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November 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Proposed new Power Station at Bradwell |
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ML2020_012_059 |
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Proposed new Power Station at Bradwell |
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In the last issue there were accusations of scaremongering with an illustration that appeared in the October edition of Mersea Life showing steam belching from cooling towers and the scale of the towers being out of proportion to the existing power station. I think the proportions are right and any ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
December 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea at War |
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ML2021_001_050 |
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Title |
Mersea at War |
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Abstract |
I am often asked what it was like on Mersea Island during the Second World War. Well, the answer is a lot different to what it is now. I lived throughout the war in Suffolk Avenue in a new bungalow my dad had built while working for local builder Clifford White & Co. We moved in August 1939 from 6 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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286 |
Article |
Typhoon aircraft down in the River |
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ML2021_002_059 |
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Title |
Typhoon aircraft down in the River |
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Typhoon aircraft down in the River Blackwater
The New Year brought a very interesting Email to Mersea Museum, from Mark Pottinger. The name was not familiar, until Mark explained that his father was the pilot of the Hawker Typhoon fighter aircraft that had to ditch in the River Blackwater on ... |
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February 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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287 |
Article |
OTHONA and other houseboats |
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ID |
ML2021_003_062 |
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Title |
OTHONA and other houseboats |
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When I was a small toddler living in Barfield Road, my Dad used to take me out in my pushchair while Mum cooked Sunday dinner. The route was usually down Coast Road by the houseboats and this was in the early 1930s when yachts and other vessels were coming in to be converted to houseboats. I'm ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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288 |
Article |
When the steamer brought trippers to Mersea |
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ML2021_004_086 |
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When the steamer brought trippers to Mersea |
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Over a century ago the little steamboat SS Annie was to be seen working from Maldon. No one knows where or when she was built but when the Manchester Ship Canal was opened in 1893, she was one of a number of similar vessels doing pleasure cruises there. The cruises were not profitable so Annie was ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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April 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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289 |
Article |
The tuppeny water pistol |
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ID |
ML2021_005_078 |
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Title |
The tuppeny water pistol |
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Abstract |
In my school days there was a little shop on Queens Corner owned by Miss Katie White. She sold a range of things including toys and sweets, a school boy's dream. Walking home from Barfield Road school to my home in Suffolk Avenue I often stopped by to see what was in the window. One day I spotted a ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Shocking accident at the Strood |
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ID |
ML2021_006_076 |
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Title |
Shocking accident at the Strood |
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Abstract |
With each week of big tides there is usually a motor vehicle stuck on the Strood by the driver misjudging the depth of water over the road. Fortunately no one has lost their life there recently. By far the worst accident happened before the days of the motor car. Sisters Eva Clarry 21 and Annie ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
June 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea School |
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ID |
ML2021_007_077 |
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Title |
West Mersea School |
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Abstract |
I started at West Mersea Council School around Easter 1937. I was living in Barfield Road at the time and I was a very reluctant starter. In the end my Dad loaded me into the seat on the back of his bike on the pretence of going to East Mersea to visit Auntie Nellie, but instead of going past the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
July 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A tribute to a dear brother by Ron Green |
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ID |
ML2021_008_030 |
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Title |
A tribute to a dear brother by Ron Green |
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Abstract |
I can still remember being woken by the sounds of a baby crying in the front bedroom of our home No 6 Council House, Barfield Road. It was March 5th 1937. Brother John had arrived. Two years later we moved to a new bungalow in Suffolk Avenue that dad had built, working for Clifford White. I remember ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Laneys |
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ID |
ML2021_008_077 |
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Title |
The Laneys |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - the Laneys
Around 120 years ago there were little groups of cottages on Mersea. One such group was around the area known as 'the City' in the The Lane. People from around this area were known as Laneys and it extended from The Coast up The Lane to it's junction with Firs Chase, ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea bus services |
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ID |
ML2021_009_074 |
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Title |
Mersea bus services |
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Abstract |
I was born in No. 6 Council House in Barfield Road and as soon as I was able, I spent a great deal of time looking out of my front window at the passing traffic. It was the mid-1930s and much of it was horsedrawn but there were also buses from four different companies passing by.
Firstly the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
September 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - the Regatta |
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ID |
ML2021_010_074 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the Regatta |
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Abstract |
I was delighted to attend another West Mersea Town Regatta this year, especially after the pandemic prevented last year's from taking place. I calculated that it was my 74th as I was at at least one regatta in the 1930s. I have before me a copy of the advertising poster for the 1939 Regatta which ... |
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Published |
October 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Life around the Fox |
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ID |
ML2021_011_078 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Life around the Fox |
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Abstract |
Quite often when I sit in The Fox having my Wednesday roast, my thoughts go back almost 200 years to when my Great Great Grandfather John Green would have been around there and what he would make of the area as it is now. The Tithe awards of 1839 list him as Occupier, with others, of Cottage and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Development old and new |
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ID |
ML2021_012_078 |
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Title |
Development old and new |
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Abstract |
With the Brierley Paddocks development now under way and the many groans of disapproval on the social media, I thought it would be interesting to look back at what might have been. Plans were first put forward to develop all this area nearly 120 years ago.
I have before me a layout from a ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
December 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Boating Lake |
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ID |
ML2022_001_062 |
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Title |
The Boating Lake |
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Abstract |
We have a fine new boating lake in East Mersea. I haven't seen it but I hear it is very popular.
I remember very well the West Mersea boating lake in what was called Shears Meadow. It all came about in a roundabout way because of a gas works. The retort house building for this project was ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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299 |
Article |
Sea Levels |
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ID |
ML2022_002_077 |
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Title |
Sea Levels |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane: Sea Levels
I have before me a map of Mersea Island and surrounding areas which has been reproduced in a local publication. Much of the surrounding low lying area is coloured pink with the suggestion that by 2030, that's in eight years time, these areas are forecast to be under ... |
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Published |
February 2022
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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300 |
Article |
Ted Woolf's Shed |
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ID |
ML2022_003_077 |
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Title |
Ted Woolf's Shed |
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Abstract |
The oyster shed on Coast Road, always known as Ted Woolf's Shed, has recently been demolished and is to be replaced by a new building similar in appearance. The old shed was in very poor condition and the new one will improve working conditions for the men sorting the oysters.
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2022
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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