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Jack Hoy - World War II
ID WW2_JHY
Title Jack Hoy - World War II
Abstract Jack Dorrien Hoy- World War II ...
Published 7 July 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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Arthur Young's General View of Agriculture in Essex 1807
ID TB02_001
Title Arthur Young's General View of Agriculture in Essex 1807
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. . . . . . . . . . Arthur Young (1741-1820) of Bradfield Combust Hall, Suffolk - writer and agriculturist. "Creator of the literature of agriculture, ...
Author Arthur Young
Source Mersea Museum

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Revd Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea
ID TB01_017
Title Revd Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea
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 ...
Author T.B. Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

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Priscilla Pullen by Sybil Brand
ID ECS_1972_DEC28_A01
Title Priscilla Pullen by Sybil Brand
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, ...
Author Sybil Brand
Published 28 December 1972
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Bumkin BOY GEORGE
ID BYG
Title Bumkin BOY GEORGE
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 ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

INO winklebrig
ID WKB_004
Title INO winklebrig
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Wheezy Annna
ID WKB_003
Title Wheezy Annna
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Tolfish - a Tollesbury fishing company
ID WKB_002
Title Tolfish - a Tollesbury fishing company
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

International Youth Camp Memories
ID YC70_001
Title International Youth Camp Memories
Abstract International Camp Memories By Bob Collins ...
Author Bob Collins
Published May 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

ICE ! - Henry John May
ID HJM_201
Title ICE ! - Henry John May
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Memory Lane - World War 2
ID ML2025_005_054
Title Memory Lane - World War 2
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 ...
Published May 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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William Charles Chapman - captured at El Alamein 1942
ID WW2_WCC
Title William Charles Chapman - captured at El Alamein 1942
Abstract William Charles Chapman This story is not complete - if you can tell us more, please get in touch. ...
Source Mersea Museum

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Clement Sanders Smith - captured at El Alamein WW2
ID WW2_CSM
Title Clement Sanders Smith - captured at El Alamein WW2
Abstract Clement Sanders Smith ...
Source Mersea Museum

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Frederick John Dixon - captured El Alamein WW2
ID WW2_FJD
Title Frederick John Dixon - captured El Alamein WW2
Abstract Frederick John Dixon ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Yew Tree House
ID PK52_021
Title Yew Tree House
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 ...
Source Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby

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Memory Lane - Land Girls
ID ML2025_004_049
Title Memory Lane - Land Girls
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published April 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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Geoffrey French Green - captured El Alamein WW2
ID WW2_GFG
Title Geoffrey French Green - captured El Alamein WW2
Abstract Geoffrey French Green ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Peldon Hall
ID PH01_PHF
Title Peldon Hall
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 - ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

JINNIE - Oyster Skiff
ID WKB_001
Title JINNIE - Oyster Skiff
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, ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges
ID ML2025_003_054
Title Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published March 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE
ID ML2025_002_054
Title MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published February 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Jack Emeny - boat builder at Wyatt's
ID MNY
Title Jack Emeny - boat builder at Wyatt's
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole
ID PH01_PHL
Title Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole
Abstract Butlers Farm, Peldon and Peldon Hole ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Memory Lane - Winter Snow
ID ML2025_001_049
Title Memory Lane - Winter Snow
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published January 2025
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse
ID PH01_PWP
Title Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse
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 ...
Keywords Elaine Barker
Published December 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Working in Wartime Colchester
ID TXB_032
Title Working in Wartime Colchester
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 ...
Author Phyllis Taylor
Published 1945
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm
ID PH01_SWK
Title Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Harvey's Farm, Peldon
ID PH01_HVF
Title Harvey's Farm, Peldon
Abstract 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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project
ID EHWB_001
Title Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project
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 ...
Author Helen Swift
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Sampson's Farm, Peldon
ID PH01_SMP
Title Sampson's Farm, Peldon
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, ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Newpots Farm, Peldon
ID PH01_NPT
Title Newpots Farm, Peldon
Abstract NEWPOTS FARM Newpots Farm photographed in 2006 © Copyright Glyn Baker and used under ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

The Adder Man of Langenhoe
ID PH01_TDA
Title The Adder Man of Langenhoe
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Postcard Collecting
ID ML2024_011_052
Title Postcard Collecting
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published November 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Rose Cottage, Mersea Road, Peldon
ID PH01_RCA
Title Rose Cottage, Mersea Road, Peldon
Abstract 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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Fid Harnack - Marine Artist
ID FID_042
Title Fid Harnack - Marine Artist
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, ...
Author John Leather
Keywords buzzun, besom
Published 6 January 1976
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

David James Green by Ron Green
ID ML2024_010_018
Title David James Green by Ron Green
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published October 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Grove Farm, Little Wigborough
ID LWG_GRV
Title Grove Farm, Little Wigborough
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Keywords hurricane
Published September 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett
ID MSH_LNY
Title Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett
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 ...
Author Harry Thomas Mussett
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like
ID COR1_175_A01
Title WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like
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 ...
Author Peter Tucker
Published c1998
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Memory Lane - Bombs on Mersea
ID ML2024_009_054
Title Memory Lane - Bombs on Mersea
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 - ...
Author Ron Green
Published September 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner.
ID EAM_1965_005_A01
Title Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner.
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, ...
Author Eric Rayner
Keywords salcot
Published May 1965
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family
ID FBN_WHB_001
Title 'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day.
ID EC69_10_A01
Title Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day.
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 ...
Author James Wentworth Day
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

Mersea's Working Horses
ID ML2024_008_065
Title Mersea's Working Horses
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, ...
Published August 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Article

The May Family from Willoughy John Bean
ID FBQ_104
Title The May Family from Willoughy John Bean
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 ...
Author Willoughby John Bean
Published 1930s
Source Mersea Museum

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Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside
ID EC65_09_A01
Title Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside
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, ...
Author Frank Dawes
Source Mersea Museum

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21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages
ID LCM_C21
Title 21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages
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. ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published June 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Memory Lane - Signposts to Mersea
ID ML2024_007_052
Title Memory Lane - Signposts to Mersea
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 ...
Author Ron Green and Tony Millatt
Published July 2024
Source Mersea Museum

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Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman
ID FWS
Title Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman
Abstract The article below is from the D-Day Display in Mersea Museum 2024 Summer Exhibition. Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

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Ransomes Farm, Peldon
ID PH01_RES
Title Ransomes Farm, Peldon
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, ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published 24 May 2024
Source Mersea Museum
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