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...
Charles 'Tiddler' Mole interviewed by Len Broadhurst
Tiddler was born early 1911, lived in The Square. He was gardener and went with Bill Clarry when he was 14 and was with him...
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
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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
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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.
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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
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'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.
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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 Suffolk, 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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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 WW2,...
Henry Heath at Pete Hall - Lions Talking Magazine 160
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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 Book,...
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...
Ken Mole interviewed by Albert Streeter Lions Talking Magazine 190 in August 1994.
Meet a Lion - the new President Ken Mole, who has been In the Lions for 16 years. Ken has a...
Regattas Past and Present by Ron Green - from Lions Talking Magazine.
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Ron Green talking about Mersea Regattas past and present, recorded August 1994 for Lions Talking Magazine 191. He is talking to Albert Streeter and John Foxall.
An article in...
John Milgate interviewed by Stuart Devenish for Lions Talking Magazine
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John Milgate, West Mersea shipwright, interviewd by Stuart Devenish for Mersea Island Lions Talking Magazine 209, recorded in March 1996.
John's grandfather came to Mersea in...
Freda Smith née Keene interviewed by Stuart Devenish on Mersea Island Lions Talking Magazine 213 August 1996, introduced by John Foxall.
Freda was a teacher at Mersea...