Mersea Museum - Search Results

This database contains some of the books and papers held by Mersea Museum.

Found 467 files - displaying 451 to 467


451	Article	The Victory in the 1920s
	ID	ML2018_004_L19
	Title	The Victory in the 1920s
	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 ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


452	Article	Cooking Victory Days - Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_073
	Title	Cooking Victory Days - Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	I didn't know much about cooking and for that matter some of the customers didn't either. In those days there was every luxury at hand but without the necessary equipment. Mersea was a good place to start the art of cooking as there was no competition. I like to think I helped put Mersea on the ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


453	Article	1920s onwards - more Victory Days. Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_081
	Title	1920s onwards - more Victory Days. Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	Bill and Cecil Barlow, now demobbed from the RAF, were the sons of the late Mr Lazarus Barlow who had owned the 50 ton schooner, the ROSENEATH, which used to anchor in the Quarters when they were in residence in their Mersea Home 'The Grove' facing the sea. Later, when The Grove was sold, Bill ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


454	Article	Victory Days. D.O.R.A. - Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_071
	Title	Victory Days. D.O.R.A. - Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	The first winter we were at the Victory we got into trouble under D.O.R.A. [ Defence of the Realm Act ]. The war had been over 4 months, my husband and his friends had been out shooting partridges, I got all carried away by the bag and suggested that I should cook them and they could have a late ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


455	Article	Miss Teresa Buxton - Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_061
	Title	Miss Teresa Buxton - Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	Miss Teresa Buxton used to stay here at the Victory often, she was a very talented artist, her outstanding pictures were water colours. She also had great faith in our Mersea spring water, which was situated on the coast road not far from the Victory. She used to take bottles of this water home ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


456	Article	1920 Mr Trim and the Victory Days - Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_051
	Title	1920 Mr Trim and the Victory Days - Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	Mr Trim used the Victory more as a home as he used to run a small farm and also let out mechanical machinery to farmers who could not afford their own. When we took over, we soon realised that it took people, not antique ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


457	Article	Tollesbury, and taking the Victory - Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_041
	Title	Tollesbury, and taking the Victory - Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	We had almost given up the idea of taking a pub, the war coming to an end many people had the same idea and licences were very hard to get hold of. Quite casually, we heard about the Victory at West Mersea from a visiting Officer stationed at West Mersea. It seemed a carefree way of earning a ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


458	Article	First visit to Mersea Island - Winifred Hone Memoirs
	ID	WW01_031
	Title	First visit to Mersea Island - Winifred Hone Memoirs
	Abstract	A bright night, the sky full of stars, just the night for a raid. I was awakened by a banging on the door; this wasn't unusual as the Tollesbury policeman was very spy minded and had received permission to cover the attic window with black material leaving a hole in the middle for his spying ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


459	Article	Tollesbury people - Winifred Hone Memoirs
	ID	WW01_021
	Title	Tollesbury people - Winifred Hone Memoirs
	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. ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


460	Article	Coming to Tollesbury - from Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_011
	Title	Coming to Tollesbury - from Winifred Hone memoirs
	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 ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Keywords	ww1
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


461	Article	Pyefleet House, Strood Close, Strood Villa
	ID	PH01_PFH
	Title	Pyefleet House, Strood Close, Strood Villa
	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 time of the 1884 ...
	Author	Geoff Gonella
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


462	Article	World War 1 - Private Dines
	ID	WW1_DIN
	Title	World War 1 - Private Dines
	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 William Dines was born in Frating, Essex in 1884 (1), the son ...
	Author	Geoff Gonella
	Published	November 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


463	Article	Peldon - the 1953 Flood
	ID	PH01_FLD
	Title	Peldon - the 1953 Flood
	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 ...
	Author	Elaine Barker
	Keywords	BERNARD
	Published	5 March 2018
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


464	Article	The Peldon Vulture
	ID	PH01_VTR
	Title	The Peldon Vulture
	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 in Peldon on 28th September 1868, an event ...
	Author	Elaine Barker
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


465	Article	Peldon Chapel
	ID	PH01_PMC
	Title	Peldon Chapel
	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 next door but one to Peldon Common in 1893. ...
	Author	Elaine Barker
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


466	Article	Memory Lane - widening the Strood
	ID	ML2018_003_L19
	Title	Memory Lane - widening the Strood
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


467	Article	Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village.
	ID	ML2018_002_L19
	Title	Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village.
	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 ...
	Published	February 2018
	Source	Mersea Museum


468	Article	Memory Lane - rising tides ?
	ID	ML2018_001_L21
	Title	Memory Lane - rising tides ?
	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 ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


469	Article	Mersea Island Trust
	ID	MCT_002
	Title	Mersea Island Trust
	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 ...
	Author	J.H.G. Sunnucks
	Published	1995
	Source	Mersea Museum


470	Article	Preserving Mersea's oldest roads
	ID	COR2_027
	Title	Preserving Mersea's oldest roads
	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 ...
	Author	Sue Howlett
	Published	11 November 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


471	Article	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 2
	ID	ML2017_011_L32
	Title	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 2
	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 the Yacht ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	November 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


472	Article	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1
	ID	ML2017_010_L22
	Title	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1
	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 before New ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	October 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


473	Article	Finds in the Mud
	ID	TXA03380
	Title	Finds in the Mud
	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 ...
	Author	Tony Millatt
	Source	Mersea Museum


474	Article	Restoration of PRISCILLA
	ID	ML2017_008_L76
	Title	Restoration of PRISCILLA
	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 ...
	Published	August 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


475	Article	A Sailor in a Barrow
	ID	ML2017_006_L22
	Title	A Sailor in a Barrow
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	June 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


476	Article	Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS
	ID	ML2017_005_L22
	Title	Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS
	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 ...
	Published	May 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


477	Article	Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane.
	ID	ML2017_004_L85
	Title	Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane.
	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 the 'old' Victory ...
	Author	Ron Green and Tony Millatt
	Published	April 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


478	Article	Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School
	ID	ML2017_003_L81_001
	Title	Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School
	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 Green, David Mussett and ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


479	Article	Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain
	ID	ML2017_002_L21
	Title	Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain
	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 Charles Boggis. ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


480	Article	East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr
	ID	MMH_EMP
	Title	East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr
	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.	Source	Mersea Museum


481	Article	West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
	ID	MMH_WMP
	Title	West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
	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 ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


482	Article	Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea
	ID	MMH_MTG
	Title	Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea
	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 or what they were about. ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


483	Article	Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory.
	ID	MMH_CED
	Title	Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory.
	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 the ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


484	Article	Old City Hall in The Lane
	ID	MMH_OCH
	Title	Old City Hall in The Lane
	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 ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


485	Article	Assembly Hall, East Road
	ID	MMH_MAH
	Title	Assembly Hall, East Road
	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 place to live and develop. ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


486	Article	Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church
	ID	MMH_CGU
	Title	Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church
	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 Hawes, gave the site of the ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


487	Article	Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church
	ID	MMH_MET
	Title	Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church
	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 Coastguard by the name ...
	Author	William Chatters
	Source	Mersea Museum


488	Article	Mersea Pubs - old and new Fountain Hotel
	ID	PUBS_FNH
	Title	Mersea Pubs - old and new Fountain Hotel
	Abstract	'Old' Fountain Hotel East Road, near The Fox The 'old' Fountain on East Road with The Fox in the distance The 'old' Fountain. On ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


489	Article	Mersea Pubs - the White Hart
	ID	PUBS_WHT
	Title	Mersea Pubs - the White Hart
	Abstract	The White Hart was in the centre of West Mersea life for many years. It appears on an 1817 map of West Mersea - the oldest part is in the centre of today's building and has been dated to 16th Century. Many Island organisations (including the various churches) held meetings there, the bus terminus ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


490	Article	Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough.
	ID	DIS2016_ZEP
	Title	Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough.
	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 ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


491	Article	East Mersea road blocked
	ID	ML2016_011_L85
	Title	East Mersea road blocked
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green and Tony Millatt
	Published	November 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


492	Article	100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding
	ID	ML2016_010_L83_002
	Title	100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green and Tony Millatt
	Published	October 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


493	Article	Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road
	ID	ML2016_010_L83_001
	Title	Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road
	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 Hadley's gents outfitters ...
	Author	Ron Green, Brian Jay and Tony Millatt
	Published	October 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


494	Article	Memory Lane - High Street shops
	ID	ML2016_009_L81
	Title	Memory Lane - High Street shops
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green, Tony Millatt, Brian Jay
	Published	September 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


495	Article	Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe
	ID	LUC_SCH_007
	Title	Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe
	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 so ...
	Author	Susan Luckham
	Published	2006
	Source	Mersea Museum


496	Article	Memory Lane - Mersea bands
	ID	ML2016_008_L81
	Title	Memory Lane - Mersea bands
	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. ...
	Published	August 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


497	Article	Memory Lane - buses in the ditch
	ID	ML2016_007_L19
	Title	Memory Lane - buses in the ditch
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	July 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


498	Article	Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard
	ID	ML2016_005_L24
	Title	Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard
	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. Bruce Rainbird, 5. Bert ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	May 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


499	Article	Memory Lane - the Home Guard
	ID	ML2016_004_L93_001
	Title	Memory Lane - the Home Guard
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	March 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


500	Article	Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s
	ID	ML2016_003_L83_001
	Title	Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s
	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 ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	March 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum

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