Note that in the talk, Tom says he believes the double dedication to St. Peter and St. Paul if fairly recent - but since then a 1492 will has been found which gives this...
[07m] 16th Century iron-bound solid oak chest at the back of the church. It has 3 locks and 3 separate keys would be necessary - the vicar and two churchwardens needed to open it....
[01m] Churchyard was closed about 1900 by an order in council because the churchyard was full and they then opened up Barfield Road and later Firs Road Cemeteries.
[12m] 1882...
Interview with Paul Jasper at his home 33 Cambridge Road, Colchester, on 9th April 2009. Also present were Brian Jay and Tony Millatt, both from West Mersea.
[04m]Paul...
Aircraft - Brian Jay mentions he pulled up a Typhoon from the river and Paul talks about the types of plane to be seen flying into Bradwell Bay. Paul and his friends used to get...
Allan talking about his 47 years in the oyster business in West Mersea, the boats, the people, Native Oysters, the disease bonamia.
Recorded for Audio Guides in Mersea...
John is talking to his daughter Sophie.
School - John went to Miss Francis, then a Convent School in Colchester, but travelling into Colchester was dangerous in the early...
John Barton is talking to his daughter Sophie. He was born 1931.
Impact of the War on Mersea. Friends killed by mine [ Ian Michelle ]. Food. Air raids.
John saw no foxes...
Toys, games. Parents left children to themselves a lot. Cooking on a range in main room heated by coal or wood. Triplex unit with ovens at the side. No refrigerator - butter...
Audio recorded by Lawrence Northall of CITiZAN 2017-8 for Search Mersea project.
Files are available on searchingmersea.com and fed from SoundCloud
Some of these files...
Boxes or original LTM cassette tapes donated by Ron Green to Museum July 2017.
MBOX163 has about 88 cassettes 1979 - c1985. All these should already be digitised.
MBOX164...
Bill was born 1883 and is probably the Island's oldest resident. Bill covers a lot of the island's history. He was present when the wheel tomb / pharos was uncovered in Yorick Road...
Mrs Ida South retires after teaching for 39 years at West Mersea School
Abstract
Frank Osborn talking to Mrs Ida South on Lions Talking Magazine number 25 from 1980. She had has just retired from West Mersea School, She taught there for 39 years, and had...
About 210 years ago great grandfather Green worked for Mason at West Hall, and planted lime trees round the inside of the church yard and also the tree on the green opposite the...
Jack Saye talking to Dennis Chatters about bus services
Abstract
Introduced by Kevin Baldwin. Dennis Chatters is interviewing Jack Saye. Jack was a bus driver for almost all his working life, including WW2 when there would be 3 buses on the last...
Hardy Weaver talking about the Clifford White's empire on Mersea.
Abstract
Hardy Weaver interviewed by Dennis Chatters for Lions Talking Magazine 41. Part 1 of 2.
Hardy worked for Clifford Whites for many years and gives much background to the...
Hardy Weaver talking about the Clifford White's empire on Mersea. Part 2.
Abstract
Hardy Weaver interviewed by Dennis Chatters for Lions Talking Magazine 43. Part 2 of 2.
Hardy worked for Clifford Whites for many years and continues to gives much background...
Dennis Chatters talking about Lions, Lions International, and this Talking Magazine. Dennis talks about the recording facilities - in the dining room at the back of his...
Mrs Peggy Nuttall-Smith interviewed by Dennis Chatters for Lions Talking Magazine on Mersea. Using her maiden name of Peggy Fortnum, she was the illustrator for the Paddington Bear...
Elgar Frank Mussett was born 1920, son of Frank Elgar Mussett. He is talking to Dennis Chatters. Part 1.
Elgar went to Colchester Technical School and then started work as an...
Elgar Mussett continues the story of his escape from Singapore. Having crossed Sumatra, the party reached Padang and hoping to be rescued by a British destroyer. There were about...
Harold Cutts interviewed by Dennis Chatters on Lions Talking Magazine 56. Mersea's boating scene, past and future. Harold was related to 'Admiral' Bill Wyatt and ran Wyatts for...
Allan Gray interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Allan is farmer at Bocking Hall Farm. He talks about coming to Mersea as tenant at the farm in 1940. It is reckoned 800...
Jack talks about early shops on the island and life in Mill Road when he was young.
Samuel White's first shop in Mill Road. Fred Smith the baker.
C W A Scott, the airman,...
Joan was on the buses during the War, working with Alf Stacey and Jack Saye. The remembers having 70 to 80 people on the single-decker last bus. Her talk includes her work as a...
Down on the Farm - Victor Gray is interviewed by Len Broadhurst. Victor lives at New Hall Farm, Little Wigborough. Victor was in the Navy during the War, going in as an Ordinary...
Douglas Stoker interviewed by Dennis Chatters 1983
Abstract
Douglas Stoker talking to Dennis Chatters on Lions Talking Magazine 62. Douglas talks about the MOLLIETTE when it was a club and a dance hall. Things gradually got out of hand, it...
Victor Gray of New Hall Farm, Little Wigborough, interviewed by Len Broadhurst. The walk round the farm is continued from the previous tape. They are on the edge of the marsh -...
Victor Gray from New Hall Farm Little Wigborough talks to Len Broadhurst. They go into the wood - the after rain, the water used to rush through it, but Vic has built a series of...
Johnny Milgate at age of 93 talking to Dennis Chatters in 1983
Abstract
From Lions Talking Magazine No. 66. This is part 1 of 2.
Johnny was born 1890. School days when John Thorp was master. Johnny went crewing on various yachts, and spent time in...
Johnny Milgate at age of 93 talking to Dennis Chatters. Part 2.
Abstract
From Lions Talking Magazine 68. Part 2 or 2. Johnny continues his stories of yachting prior to WW1. During WW1 he was in the Navy - sailed on the armed merchant cruiser LACONIA,...
Harry 'Tucker' Cross interviewed by Dennis Chatters
Abstract
'Tucker' Cross interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Tucker's real name is Harry. He was born in Tendring, moved to Boxted, and then came to Langenhoe in 1911. He talks about Peldon, and...
Ken Ham interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Ken is a regular listener to the Lions Talking Magazine and spent his working life in farming. His father was registrar in Mersea for many...
Patricia Catchpole from Lions Talking Magazine 73.
Abstract
Patricia Catchpole (Catchy) from the Riding School in West Mersea, interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Patricia came to Mersea when she was 11 - she was brought up in Norfolk, on a...
Mary Stevens interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Mary is Archivist at Mersea Museum and has recently written a book on Revd. Pierrepont Edwards (Old Spiery). The conversations that...
Eric White on the Clifford White Empire - Lions Talking Magazine
Abstract
Eric White, son of Clifford White, gives a history of what became the Clifford White Empire on Mersea.
The White family have been on Mersea for along time. Eric's great...
Reg Hempstead interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 1990
Abstract
Lions Talking Magazine 135, March 1990, introduced by Frank Osborn.
Reg Hempstead is interviewed by Dennis Chatters and Reg D'Wit. At the BBC broadcast from the White Hart -...
John Jowers interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 140
Abstract
[03m] John Jowers talking to Frank Osborn. John is Chairman of Fisherman's Association, Councillor on WM Town Council, and has just elected to Town Mayor. They talk about fish...
Norman Burgess interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 141
Abstract
Norman 'Joe' Burgess interviewed by Dennis Chatters. He talks about the MOLLIETTE, a coaster built in Kent, of reinforced concrete. She was not very successful as a coaster -...
Harold Rudlin from Lions Talking Magazine 142 August 1990
Abstract
Harold Rudlin talking to Frank Osborn for Lions Talking Magazine.
Harold worked for the Electricity Board on Mersea. [except for a period when he was called up in and after...
Henry Heath at Pete Hall - Lions Talking Magazine 160
Abstract
Henry Heath interviewed by Frank Osborn
Henry
has taken over Pete Hall, and talks about it. Present house thought to be 1780. An earlier house supposed to be in Domesday...
The 'Colchester' Earthquake - recording from ?. Narrator talks to Dr Brian Skipp about damage in Colchester. Jumbo was completed just before the earthquake and was undamaged. It is...
