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This database contains an index of some of the books and papers held by Mersea Museum.
Found 318 files - displaying 301 to 318
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Article |
Tollesbury people - Winifred Hone Memoirs |
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WW01_021 |
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Title |
Tollesbury people - Winifred Hone Memoirs |
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Abstract |
1917
The Hon. Kenneth Watson then O.C. Devon Regiment stationed at Salisbury, a very kindly and considerate man. His troops regarded him
with great respect and affection, as so they should, although it does not always follow that kindness received is kindness returned. ... |
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Author |
Winifred Hone |
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Published |
c1969
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Wendy Woolley
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Article |
Coming to Tollesbury - from Winifred Hone memoirs |
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ID |
WW01_011 |
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Title |
Coming to Tollesbury - from Winifred Hone memoirs |
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Abstract |
My father Frederick Evelyn Cowles took over the tenancy of the Kings Head Tollesbury on 1916. I think I can say that they were the
happiest days of his life, he loved the honesty of the locals with their forthright and carefree way of life. My father was a
learned man and many were the letters ... |
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Author |
Winifred Hone |
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Keywords |
ww1 |
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Published |
c1969
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Mersea Museum / Wendy Woolley
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Article |
Pyefleet House, Strood Close, Strood Villa |
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ID |
PH01_PFH |
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Title |
Pyefleet House, Strood Close, Strood Villa |
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Abstract |
PYEFLEET HOUSE
Researched & compiled by Geoff Gonella
The building
Pyefleet House is the last-but-one house on the Strood before Mersea Island. Over the years it has also been named
'Strood Villa', 'Strood Close' and 'The Vicarage, Peldon.' At the t ... |
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Author |
Geoff Gonella |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project
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Article |
World War 1 - Private Dines |
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ID |
WW1_DIN |
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Title |
World War 1 - Private Dines |
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Abstract |
St. Mary's churchyard has a military grave with a headstone that reads:
454276 Private
H.W. Dines
Labour Corps.
4 November 1918 age 34
Harry Wi ... |
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Author |
Geoff Gonella |
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Published |
November 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project
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Article |
Peldon - the 1953 Flood |
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ID |
PH01_FLD |
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Title |
Peldon - the 1953 Flood |
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Abstract |
For hundreds of years there has been an ongoing battle trying to defend the Essex coastal marshlands against inundation by high tides.
Although we focus on the 1953 floods, being within living memory, they were preceded by previous inundations notably,
in the last hundred ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
BERNARD |
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Published |
5 March 2018
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project
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306 |
Article |
The Peldon Vulture |
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ID |
PH01_VTR |
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Title |
The Peldon Vulture |
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Abstract |
Egyptian Vulture. Photo from Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove.
There are numerous references to the rare sighting (and shooting) of an
Egyptian Vulture ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project
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Article |
Peldon Chapel |
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ID |
PH01_PMC |
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Title |
Peldon Chapel |
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Abstract |
The congregation outside Peldon Chapel around 1945.
Photo: Pat Wyncoll (the little boy in the foreground)
Peldon Chapel was built on the North side of Lower Road, Peldon ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project
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Article |
Memory Lane - widening the Strood |
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ID |
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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Article |
Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village. |
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ML2018_002_L19 |
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Title |
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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Source |
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 ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Island Trust |
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ID |
MCT_002 |
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Title |
Mersea Island Trust |
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Abstract |
The following article was written by J.H.G. Sunnucks for Mistral Magazine in 1995
1995 saw the 30th anniversary of the opening by Miss Akhurst of the first "sheltered" accommodation on the Island. There must be many varied memories of how it all began, but this is how the ... |
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Author |
J.H.G. Sunnucks |
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Published |
1995
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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312 |
Article |
Preserving Mersea's oldest roads |
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ID |
COR2_027 |
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Title |
Preserving Mersea's oldest roads |
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Abstract |
It was heartening to read in Courier no. 666 of the Strood Charity's generous donation to Mersea Island Museum, towards the preservation and display of timbers from an ancient Bronze Age walkway. Discovered in the mud off Cooper's Beach by Oysterman, Daniel French, the surviving 4-metre section of ... |
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Author |
Sue Howlett |
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Published |
11 November 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 2 |
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ID |
ML2017_011_L32 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 2 |
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Abstract |
By Ron Green with Tony Millatt and Brian Jay Mersea Island Museum
We continue the history of Orleans, the large house by the Monkey Beach in West Mersea.
At the end of the 19th Century, Orleans belonged to Thomas Gilbert a wealthy gentleman who was a JP, Churchwarden, Captain of ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1 |
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ID |
ML2017_010_L22 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1 |
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Abstract |
By Ron Green with Tony Millatt and Brian Jay Mersea Island Museum
Recently, a lady visitor to Mersea noticed while walking along the Monkey beach, an ornamental metal gate in the wall of New Orleans garden. She wanted to find out about the old house Orleans which stood in the grounds ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
October 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
In the Mud |
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ID |
TXA03380 |
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Title |
In the Mud |
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Abstract |
2017 was an exciting year along the Mersea shore.
In 2016, CITiZAN (Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeology Network)
visited the island and looked more deeply into some things
we thought we already knew about. About the same time local oystermen were making interesting finds and it became clear ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Restoration of PRISCILLA |
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ID |
ML2017_008_L76 |
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Title |
Restoration of PRISCILLA |
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Abstract |
A Mersea fishing smack has been brought back to life by The Pioneer
Sailing Trust based at Harker's Yard, Brightlingsea, after a four year restoration with the aid of a grant of £790,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. PRISCILLA was found abandoned in a boatyard in Bristol and the yard ... |
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August 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A Sailor in a Barrow |
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ID |
ML2017_006_L22 |
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Title |
A Sailor in a Barrow |
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Abstract |
MEMORY LANE From Ron Green and Tony Millatt - Mersea Island Museum.
In our May item for Mersea Life, we referred to an old newspaper cutting concerning The Nutshell and Little Timbers in The Lane. In another cutting, dating from 1906, we find an interesting tale concerning ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
June 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS |
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ID |
ML2017_005_L22 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS |
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Abstract |
From a newspaper cutting dated 4 November 1971 shown recently to the museum comes this report - The Nutshell - a five hundred year old smuggler's cottage owned by a baroness in Malta, stands in the way of road improvements for the well-known yachting centre.
Three members of the Highways ... |
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Published |
May 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane. |
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ID |
ML2017_004_L85 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane. |
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Abstract |
Our Museum is getting a constant flow of interesting old pictures etc.
Out of the blue, Chris Burrows from Whitstable has emailed this fine image of the 'old' Victory. Comparing it with a postcard of ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School |
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ID |
ML2017_003_L81_001 |
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Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School |
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Abstract |
Mrs Margaret (Peggy) Brunt née Calver passed away in Boston Butterfly
Hospice on Saturday 11th February - her daughter's birthday. She was a teacher at West Mersea School during the war. Ron ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain |
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ID |
ML2017_002_L21 |
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Title |
Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain |
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Abstract |
Our local scene this month comes from a very faded postcard given to me
many years ago by Mrs Ivy 'Doll' Cook née Green. The scene is the 'old' Fountain in East Road c 1908 when the inn keeper was ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr |
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ID |
MMH_EMP |
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Title |
East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr |
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Abstract |
The Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, and the nearby East Mersea Hall, are built in a moated area that is thought to have contained a Danish encampment from their visit in 894 AD, as mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul |
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ID |
MMH_WMP |
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Title |
West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul |
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Abstract |
It was at a spot only three miles across the Backwater Estuary at
Bradwell-on-Sea that St. Cedd founded his little monastery
circa 654, built the historic St. Peter's Chapel out of the
remains of the Roman fort of Othona, and from there he
evangelised Essex, the kingdom of the East Saxons. It is ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea |
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ID |
MMH_MTG |
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Title |
Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea |
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Abstract |
Travelling eastwards along the road from West to East Mersea you see a turning to the left named "Meeting Lane"; if you go down the lane you will not now find any clues as to where meetings were held ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory. |
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ID |
MMH_CED |
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Title |
Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory. |
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Abstract |
Though the church is the latest to be built on the Island, its roots go back to the very beginnings of the Island's Christian heritage.
Christianity reached Essex through St. Cedd, a monk, who landed at Bradwell in AD653, at the invitation of the local King.
From there Cedd proceeded with ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Old City Hall in The Lane |
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ID |
MMH_OCH |
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Title |
Old City Hall in The Lane |
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Abstract |
Many people walking down The Lane have been surprised to see a little mission hall tucked in among the houses in the oldest part of the island. They wonder at the name, "Old City Hall",
a somewhat grandiose name for such a small hall; however, the name is more
apt than it at ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Assembly Hall, East Road |
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ID |
MMH_MAH |
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Title |
Assembly Hall, East Road |
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Abstract |
Situated in East Road on the corner of Seaview Avenue is the Assembly Hall, an attractive boarded and tiled building opened in 1910 when Mersea Island was discovered and thought to be a desirable ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church |
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ID |
MMH_CGU |
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Title |
Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church |
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Abstract |
West Mersea Free Church, Mill Road
Formerly Union Church, (Congregational & Baptist).
It was in the year of the battle of Trafalgar that a local landowner and oyster merchant, Mr Bennett ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church |
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ID |
MMH_MET |
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Title |
Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church |
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Abstract |
The Wesleyan Chapel in Mill Road, West Mersea. It is now known as the Methodist Church.
Wesleyan Methodism began here, as far as can be traced, in 1832. At that time a Welsh ... |
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Author |
William Chatters |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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330 |
Article |
Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough. |
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ID |
DIS2016_ZEP |
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Title |
Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough. |
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Abstract |
Excitement came to the small village of Little Wigborough on the night of 24 September 1916, with the crash of the German Zeppelin airship L33. The airship had been on a bombing raid over London and was returning to Germany. She was, however, hit by gunfire over the East End and she then struggled ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
East Mersea road blocked |
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ID |
ML2016_011_L85 |
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Title |
East Mersea road blocked |
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Abstract |
A piece of World War 2 shrapnel recently landed back on Mersea - in the Museum letterbox. It came from John Simons, whose family came to live with relatives in East Mersea to escape the bombs coming down around the Chatham Dockyard in Kent. The shrapnel had originally arrived in ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
November 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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332 |
Article |
100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding |
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ID |
ML2016_010_L83_002 |
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Title |
100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding |
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Abstract |
This happy wedding group are pictured outside Moss Cottage, Queens Corner just over 100 years ago, on September 29th 1916. Tragically both the bridgegroom Archibold Percy Green, the Best Man Henry Pullen and one other of the wedding guests were to lose their lives when their ship RFA INDUSTRY was ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
October 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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333 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road |
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ML2016_010_L83_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road |
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Abstract |
There has been considerable feedback on last month's item about shops in High Street. Memories of Hadley's shops in Mill Road have also appeared on social media.
The shop best remembered as ... |
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Author |
Ron Green, Brian Jay and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
October 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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334 |
Article |
Memory Lane - High Street shops |
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ID |
ML2016_009_L81 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - High Street shops |
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Abstract |
There has been a good deal of interest in High Street with the demolition Marfleet Lettings building and the erection of a new building in its place. The old timber framed building dated from the early 1930s and, as far as can be remembered, started life as Mr Charles Bloomfield's sweet shop. During ... |
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Author |
Ron Green, Tony Millatt, Brian Jay |
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Published |
September 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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335 |
Article |
Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe |
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ID |
LUC_SCH_007 |
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Title |
Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe |
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Abstract |
As elsewhere in the country, Mersea has been looking "back at the war years.
Those of you who visited the Museum last year will have seen many reminders
of the Second World War, and we of a "certain age" tended to say, "Do you remember?"!
One wartime event on the Island, perhaps not ... |
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Author |
Susan Luckham |
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Published |
2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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336 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Mersea bands |
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ID |
ML2016_008_L81 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Mersea bands |
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Abstract |
On Saturday 6th July, Wendy and I went along to Fen Farm, East Mersea to a Concert given by the Colchester Community Band themed 'Colchester Community Band goes pop'. The concert was in Ralph's tractor shed a fine new building built by Ralph Lord to house his fine collection of
vintage tractors. ... |
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Published |
August 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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337 |
Article |
Memory Lane - buses in the ditch |
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ID |
ML2016_007_L19 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - buses in the ditch |
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Abstract |
On the 29th April last, a double decker operated by First Bus Company ended up in the ditch opposite Bonners on the Mersea Road. This is not the first time this has happened and we show two pictures of an earlier accident. In very windy weather with a South West wind the vehicles often catch a gust ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
July 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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338 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard |
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ID |
ML2016_005_L24 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard |
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Abstract |
We continue the Home Guard theme from last month, with the Peldon Home Guard, photographed outside the Peldon Rose.
Back Row 1. Edgar Reynolds, 2. Vic Sheldrake L/Cpl, 3. Will Nicholas, 4. ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
May 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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339 |
Article |
Memory Lane - the Home Guard |
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ID |
ML2016_004_L93_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the Home Guard |
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Abstract |
I recently went to the cinema in Colchester, my first visit to the Odeon since it moved from Crouch Street. I went to see the film 'Dad's Army' because I always think the TV series is the funniest programme ever to come on television. Its a good film, but there will never be ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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340 |
Article |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s |
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ID |
ML2016_003_L83_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s |
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Abstract |
We have had a nice lot of feedback after last month's photo of the Union Church outing to Wannock Gardens, so here's another one, but we are not sure who organised this one . We don't have the date but it is in the 1960s. Again, it shows many of the old locals that are fondly remembered by us still ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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341 |
Article |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1961 |
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ID |
ML2016_002_L17_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1961 |
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Abstract |
For this month we have another group that went for an outing in an Underwoods Coach.
This group from the Union Church (Now the Free
Church) are pictured at Wannock Gardens, Polegate, Sussex in 1961 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
February 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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342 |
Article |
Linda receives her MBE from Prince Charles |
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ID |
ML2016_001_L11_001 |
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Title |
Linda receives her MBE from Prince Charles |
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Abstract |
On Friday, 18 December, Mrs Linda Bullen of the Catherine Bullen Foundation based in West Mersea, attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace with her family to receive an MBE from His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.
The citation read 'Co-founder, the ... |
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Published |
January 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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343 |
Article |
White Hart Darts Club coach trip |
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ID |
ML2016_001_L12_001 |
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Title |
White Hart Darts Club coach trip |
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Abstract |
We have had a lot of feedback from the image published in November's edition of Mersea Life showing the happy group of Mersea Locals on a trip with the White Hart darts team by Underwoods coach. We have been asked if we can print a larger picture - so here it is.
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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344 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Garage |
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ID |
ML2015_010_L59 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Garage |
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Abstract |
Underwoods Garage in Kingsland Road closed on the 1st October 2015. It was built in the 1930s when Philip Underwood moved his business from East Mersea.
The first photograph ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Coaches |
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ID |
ML2015_011_L66 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Coaches |
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Abstract |
Following on with Underwoods story, we have two pictures taken during a White Hart Darts Club outing to Felixstowe - or Gt Yarmouth with an Underwoods coach.
The pictures come courtesy of Jenny Gibbons who appears on both images.
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2015
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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346 |
Article |
Brief history of the "Delft" Plate |
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ID |
DJG_DEL |
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Title |
Brief history of the "Delft" Plate |
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Abstract |
September 1944 found the Detachment of Civil Affairs,
to which I had been assigned, halted at a small village
Gavere near Ghent, Belgium. We had proceeded rapidly from
Arromanches, Normandy. The enemy was falling back rapidly
over the Rhine, possibly fearing being over run by the Russians
from ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The late Mr Kenneth Osborne |
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ID |
DJG_KEN |
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Title |
The late Mr Kenneth Osborne |
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Abstract |
His many friends including former passengers were stunned
to learn on Friday the 17th September that Mr. Kenneth Osborne
had suddenly passed away at Westminster Hospital where he had
undergone an operation. "Ken" as he was affectionately known
had for many years taken an active part in the day ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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348 |
Article |
Three Voyages |
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ID |
DJG_VOY |
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Title |
Three Voyages |
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Abstract |
Nowadays it is quite common to read of venturesome and hazardous
voyages completed single handed or with crews, but it is not generally
known or has been forgotten that at least three epic voyages were completed
successfully by men of this village. In 1911 the schooner "Sunshine"
re-rigged as a ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
13 February 1980
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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349 |
Article |
The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club |
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ID |
DJG_TSC |
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Title |
The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club |
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Abstract |
Shortly after the Great War there came to reside in
Tollesbury a gentleman, named Major Kenrick McMullen,
a member of a notable brewing family in Hertfordshire,
who had been serving as a staff officer in the Army.
He and his family settled down in the village, and eventually
acquired land ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
c1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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350 |
Article |
A History of Tollesbury |
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ID |
DJG_HIS |
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Title |
A History of Tollesbury |
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Abstract |
A HISTORY OF TOLLESBURY
"TOLESBIA ten et Almfrid de comite qd tenuit GUDMUND
lib lit ho, uno manerio ....." so runs the beginning of one of
two paragraphs concerning the Pariah of Tollesbury in the Hundred
of "Tureatapla" or Thurstable, as recorded in Domesday Book 1068.
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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