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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
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Article |
Jack Hoy - World War II |
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ID |
WW2_JHY |
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Title |
Jack Hoy - World War II |
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Abstract |
Jack Dorrien Hoy- World War II
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Published |
7 July 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Arthur Young's General View of Agriculture in Essex 1807 |
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ID |
TB02_001 |
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Title |
Arthur Young's General View of Agriculture in Essex 1807 |
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Abstract |
ARTHUR YOUNG'S 'General view of the agriculture of the County of Essex' drawn up for the Board of Agriculture by the Secretary in 2 volumes 1807.
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Arthur Young (1741-1820) of Bradfield Combust Hall, Suffolk - writer and agriculturist. "Creator of the literature of agriculture, ... |
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Author |
Arthur Young |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Revd Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea |
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ID |
TB01_017 |
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Title |
Revd Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea |
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Abstract |
The Revd. Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea
Magdalen College, Oxford. B.A. 1850
Ordained deacon, 1850, priest 1851. Curate of Aston-in-Edgmund [Aston-in-Edgmond]
Vicar of West Mersea, 1863 - 1888. Surrogate.
Married in 1867, Mary, dau of the Revd. Samuel Farman, rector ... |
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Author |
T.B. Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Priscilla Pullen by Sybil Brand |
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ID |
ECS_1972_DEC28_A01 |
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Title |
Priscilla Pullen by Sybil Brand |
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Abstract |
Priscilla Pullen the loveliest of them all, by Sybil Brand
Essex County Standard 28 December 1972
Transcribed by Joe Vince
Taking them all in all, my mother`s family, the Pullens, were a good looking lot as the family album records. Some were dark, some fair, some blue - or brown - eyed, ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Published |
28 December 1972
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Bumkin BOY GEORGE |
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ID |
BYG |
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Title |
Bumkin BOY GEORGE |
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Abstract |
The bumkin BOY GEORGE was built for George Stoker and named after his son George, who was killed 1941 when HMS VAN MEERLANT was mined. BOY GEORGE was rebuilt by John Milgate and students as part of his wooden boatbuilding course at Shell Bungalow, Peldon, in the late 1970s.
Boy George ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
INO winklebrig |
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ID |
WKB_004 |
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Title |
INO winklebrig |
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Abstract |
INO
The name Ino comes from Greek mythology and has been used to name a number of vessels. Ino was a mortal, princess of Thebes and Queen of Boeotia, who was transformed by the gods into a marine deity named Leucothea, who is the protector goddess of sailors.
INO ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wheezy Annna |
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ID |
WKB_003 |
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Title |
Wheezy Annna |
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Abstract |
Wheezy Anna
0.89grt winkle 'bumpkin' cutter. 15'.3'x5.9'x2.2'. C.1925. 23/7/1940 Fisheries number allocated CK88. Owned by Jack Mole (master), West Mersea. 12/5/1954 To Geoffrey Arthur Hempstead, West Mersea. No longer fishing. [John Collins Nottage Institute]
In the same year that ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Tolfish - a Tollesbury fishing company |
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ID |
WKB_002 |
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Title |
Tolfish - a Tollesbury fishing company |
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Abstract |
Tolfish
On 13th January 1951 in the Kings Head, Tollesbury, an association of Tollesbury men involved in spratting and shrimping voted to form their own trading company to be known as "Tolfish Ltd".
The minutes book (in the ownership of the Haward family of West Mersea) begins about 4 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
International Youth Camp Memories |
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ID |
YC70_001 |
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Title |
International Youth Camp Memories |
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Abstract |
International Camp Memories
By Bob Collins
... |
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Author |
Bob Collins |
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Published |
May 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
ICE ! - Henry John May |
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ID |
HJM_201 |
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Title |
ICE ! - Henry John May |
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Abstract |
Ice!
Henry John May - a 19th Century Entrepreneur from West Mersea
Henry John May (1802 - 1894) was an oyster merchant, a property owner, and farmer and was the son of Thomas May, Lord of the Manor of West Mersea Hall.
West ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - World War 2 |
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ID |
ML2025_005_054 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - World War 2 |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - World War 2
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
Anniversary events this month have concentrated our minds on VE day - the end of the War in Europe. Many men from this area went off to War. Some never came back and we remember them every year. Some ended up in ... |
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May 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
William Charles Chapman - captured at El Alamein 1942 |
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ID |
WW2_WCC |
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Title |
William Charles Chapman - captured at El Alamein 1942 |
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Abstract |
William Charles Chapman
This story is not complete - if you can tell us more, please get in touch.
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Yew Tree House |
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ID |
PK52_021 |
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Title |
Yew Tree House |
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Abstract |
YEW TREE HOUSE
This site can confidently be said to have been continuously
occupied for at least 2,000 year.
The Roman pavement, low and to the left of the front gate was of a corridor or outbuilding to the main villa, which lies ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby
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Article |
Memory Lane - Land Girls |
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ID |
ML2025_004_049 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Land Girls |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Land Girls
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
During the last war a number of Land Girls, as they were called, worked in the fields on the Island. Several of them were from the Romford area where they had worked in a clothing factory. Working on the land was quite ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
April 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Hall |
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ID |
PH01_PHF |
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Title |
Peldon Hall |
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Abstract |
Peldon Hall
A Hammond postcard of Peldon Hall, its barn and lake circa 1911
Referred to as a 'mansion-house' by Philip Morant in his History of Essex (published in 1768) the building called Peldon Hall that we see today - ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
JINNIE - Oyster Skiff |
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ID |
WKB_001 |
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Title |
JINNIE - Oyster Skiff |
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Abstract |
JINNIE was also spelled JINNY but the name on the transom was JINNIE
JINNIE CK141
2.54gross registered tons motor fishing vessel. 21.6'x8.6'x2.6'. 20' keel. completed 1948 for Edwin
Richard Haward (master), West Mersea. 16/6/1948 Number allocated. 18/7/1964 To Lillian Dorothy Haward, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges |
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ID |
ML2025_003_054 |
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Title |
Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges
Clem Parker of Bradwell had a fine fleet of barges often seen working around Mersea. I was fortunate to pick up a nice postcard size photograph for £1 at a craft fair in Canterbury many years ago. The seller thought it showed a barge at Rye but ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE |
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ID |
ML2025_002_054 |
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Title |
MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE |
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Abstract |
Mersea Memories - MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
I recently bought an old postcard showing two ships VIOLETTE and REFLOATER. VIOLETTE is of particular interest as she was sister ship to MOLLIETTE which
became well known on Mersea.
MOLLIETTE and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
February 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Jack Emeny - boat builder at Wyatt's |
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ID |
MNY |
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Title |
Jack Emeny - boat builder at Wyatt's |
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Abstract |
Jack Emeny: boatbuilder at Wyatt's
Quotes about Jack
About that time Wyatts were starting to build new boats and small yachts. Jack Emeny, a young Suffolk boatbuilder recently demobbed from service in the Royal Air ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole |
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ID |
PH01_PHL |
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Title |
Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole |
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Abstract |
Butlers Farm, Peldon
and Peldon Hole
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Winter Snow |
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ID |
ML2025_001_049 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Winter Snow |
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Abstract |
For this issue we have selected snowy scenes from our museum archives. They were taken by Jack Botham, a photographer on the Island who had a photographic shop in Coast Road.
The first picture shows Orleans Corner. At this time, the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse |
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ID |
PH01_PWP |
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Title |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse |
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Abstract |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse
In writing an article about the poorhouse in Peldon and the subsequent building in 1837 of the Stanway Union Workhouse which took in the poor of Peldon, I found the names of many who had ended up in the workhouse, through no fault of their own. I felt ... |
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Keywords |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
December 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Working in Wartime Colchester |
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ID |
TXB_032 |
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Title |
Working in Wartime Colchester |
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Abstract |
Copy of an account of the bombing of St. Botolph's Corner, Colchester, in WW2 written by Phyllis Taylor 1944/5
and submitted to Mersea Museum by her daughter November 2024. Transcribed by Elaine Barker.
When war started, I went to work for Woods Engineering works in Denmark Street. The ... |
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Author |
Phyllis Taylor |
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Published |
1945
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm |
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ID |
PH01_SWK |
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Title |
Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm |
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Abstract |
Sampton Wick Farmhouse formerly White House Farm, Peldon
Sampton Wick
Grade II listed
Early C14 hall house, with crosswing. Timber framed and plastered with red
plain tile roof. Two storeys to cross wing, remainder one storey and attics.
1:3 window range modern casements. One gabled ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_HVF |
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Title |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon |
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Harvey's Farm, Peldon
According to Reaney in The Place Names of Essex, the name 'Harvey' of Peldon's Harvey's Farm dates back to 1366 when a John Hervy was listed as a holder of property in Peldon in a document called 'the Feet of Fines', an early record of land transactions. According to a ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project |
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ID |
EHWB_001 |
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Title |
Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project |
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Abstract |
Introducing Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project
There has never been such an approach to document the heritage of Essex by building a register around the heritage working vessels, their people and communities. As time ... |
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Author |
Helen Swift |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sampson's Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_SMP |
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Title |
Sampson's Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
SAMPSON'S FARM, PELDON
An aerial view of Sampson's Farm and its barns. Photo by Jack Botham 1963
Sampson's Farmhouse in Peldon is located up a long private lane close to the sea wall and is owned and occupied by farmers, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Newpots Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_NPT |
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Title |
Newpots Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
NEWPOTS FARM
Newpots Farm photographed in 2006 © Copyright Glyn Baker and used under
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Adder Man of Langenhoe |
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ID |
PH01_TDA |
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Title |
The Adder Man of Langenhoe |
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Abstract |
The Adder Man of Langenhoe
In July 1937, Patience Allen née Brundle, died in Wayside Cottage, Peldon at the age of 92. A native of Suffolk, her parents had kept the Queen's Head Hotel in the village of Eye and it was there Patience married Edwin Samuel Allen, son of a farmer living in ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Postcard Collecting |
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ID |
ML2024_011_052 |
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Title |
Postcard Collecting |
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Abstract |
I was introduced to the hobby of collecting old postcards by my dear friend the late Brian Jay. Brian was for many years president of the Colchester & District Card Collectors Club. My main collection is of postcards depicting sailing barges of which I have 600. I also have a sizable collection of ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Rose Cottage, Mersea Road, Peldon |
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PH01_RCA |
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Rose Cottage, Mersea Road, Peldon |
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ROSE COTTAGE, MERSEA ROAD, PELDON
According to sale particulars from 1987 held by Essex Record Office, Rose Cottage on the Mersea Road,
Peldon, is an unlisted eighteenth century house. A four-bedroomed property and on the market for
offers in the region of £85,000 it was described ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Fid Harnack - Marine Artist |
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ID |
FID_042 |
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Title |
Fid Harnack - Marine Artist |
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Abstract |
Fid Harnack, Marine Artist
John Leather paints a portrait in print
From Yachts and Yachting
A quarter century ago, rowing a pram dinghy around the evening anchorage under Mersea Stone, at the mouth of the river Colne, ... |
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Author |
John Leather |
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Keywords |
buzzun, besom |
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Published |
6 January 1976
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
David James Green by Ron Green |
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ID |
ML2024_010_018 |
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Title |
David James Green by Ron Green |
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Abstract |
An appreciation of the life of David James Green by Ron Green
David passed away peacefully at home on the morning of August 30th. He was 89 years old.
David was my special life long friend who I first met when he was some three of four years old. I was living in Barfield Road at the time ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
October 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough |
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ID |
LWG_GRV |
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Title |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough
Grove Farm on Copt Hall Lane in Little Wigborough, situated near an ancient piece of woodland called Copt
Hall Grove, is a grade II listed early seventeenth century farmhouse. In 1922 the Royal Commission on
Historical Monuments described it thus
Grove ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
hurricane |
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Published |
September 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett |
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ID |
MSH_LNY |
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Title |
Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett |
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Abstract |
MEMORIES OF A LANEY
by Harry Thomas Mussett
THE CITY HALL
On Thursday afternoons, at the City Hall, there used to be a Women's meeting. Mother said, "You don't have to
go to school this afternoon. You can come to the Meeting with me." Well, anything was better than going to
school, so ... |
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Author |
Harry Thomas Mussett |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like |
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ID |
COR1_175_A01 |
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Title |
WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like |
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Abstract |
Who do you think you are kidding ?
Letter by Peter Tucker in Courier 175, in response to an article in Courier 172. [The article is in Mersea Museum
archives but is not yet available here].
Dear Editor
I had hoped that it would not be necessary for me
to write again on this ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Published |
c1998
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Bombs on Mersea |
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ID |
ML2024_009_054 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Bombs on Mersea |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane Bombs on Mersea
People find it hard to believe that so many bombs fell on Mersea Island during World War Two. There is a bomb map that shows the location of more than 140 bombs, but official records suggest the total was at least double this.
Many bombs were quite small - ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
September 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner. |
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ID |
EAM_1965_005_A01 |
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Title |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner. |
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Abstract |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner.
From East Anglian Magazine May 1965
Transcribed by Joe Vince July 2024
A small Essex village forms a link with the Gunpowder Plot
The marshes; mud, grass, sea lavender, salt water, ... |
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Author |
Eric Rayner |
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Keywords |
salcot |
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Published |
May 1965
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family |
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ID |
FBN_WHB_001 |
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Title |
'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family |
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Abstract |
The Essex County Standard in November 1999 featured a rare envelope, which was to be sold at auction in London on 16th December. The letter's rarity was due to it having been sent by someone serving with the British Army on the Chin Lushai Expedition of 1880 - 1890. Its local connection was the fact ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day. |
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ID |
EC69_10_A01 |
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Title |
Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day. |
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Abstract |
PERSONALLY SPEAKING by James Wentworth Day
Wily as a fox, silent as the otter, hardy as the wild goose, with the ears of an owl and the sight
of a falcon, Ted Allen was the genius of the marsh, of the wide and deadly mud flats, a stalker of the
creeks and a son of the salt tides.
I ... |
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Author |
James Wentworth Day |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea's Working Horses |
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ID |
ML2024_008_065 |
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Title |
Mersea's Working Horses |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Mersea's working horses
Apart from the farm horses, there were still a number of horses working with local businesses on Mersea in my
memory. I started work with Clifford White & Co. Builders in 1946 and at that time there were two horses stabled in the Barfield Road yard. Tony, ... |
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Published |
August 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The May Family from Willoughy John Bean |
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ID |
FBQ_104 |
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Title |
The May Family from Willoughy John Bean |
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Abstract |
The May Family. Vol III Page 1
Transcribed from 21 handwritten pages, thought to have been written by Willoughby John Bean.
The pages end abruptly - page 22 has not been found.
Documents with thanks to Alan Brook, whose father had lived in West Mersea Hall. Transcribed by ... |
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Author |
Willoughby John Bean |
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Published |
1930s
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside |
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ID |
EC65_09_A01 |
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Title |
Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside |
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Abstract |
ROUND MERSEA ISLAND. Afoot in Essex (6) by Frank Dawes.
From Essex Countryside magazine September 1965.
Mersea is the only Essex island to lift its head at all proudly out of the sea. The others - Foulness, Canvey,
Wallasea and a great many smaller ones - lie abject and half - drowned, ... |
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Author |
Frank Dawes |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages |
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ID |
LCM_C21 |
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Title |
21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages |
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Abstract |
The following 21st century writers all have connections with Mersea Island, whether once resident here or
using its unique character as a setting for their writing. While there are a number of auto-biographical books
based locally, it is novels set in this area that are my focus here.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
June 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Signposts to Mersea |
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ID |
ML2024_007_052 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Signposts to Mersea |
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Abstract |
SIGNPOSTS TO MERSEA
It is great to see the return of the signpost at the junction of Mill Road and Colchester Road, West Mersea. It has been
lovingly restored by Brian Wilsher and Jane Davis.
The top of the signpost tells us we are in the Parish of West Mersea. It also has 'E.C.C. Stick no ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
July 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman |
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ID |
FWS |
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Title |
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman |
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Abstract |
The article below is from the D-Day Display in Mersea Museum 2024 Summer Exhibition.
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman
... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ransomes Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_RES |
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Title |
Ransomes Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Ransomes Farm
Ransomes farmhouse situated on the Wigborough Road between Peldon and the Wigboroughs is a chocolate box Essex farmhouse surrounded by large beautiful gardens and backing onto fields which offer views of Copt Grove, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
24 May 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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