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401	Article	Three Voyages
	ID	DJG_VOY
	Title	Three Voyages
	Abstract	Nowadays it is quite common to read of venturesome and hazardous voyages completed single handed or with crews, but it is not generally known or has been forgotten that at least three epic voyages were completed successfully by men of this village. In 1911 the schooner "Sunshine" re-rigged as a ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	13 February 1980
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


402	Article	The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club
	ID	DJG_TSC
	Title	The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club
	Abstract	Shortly after the Great War there came to reside in Tollesbury a gentleman, named Major Kenrick McMullen, a member of a notable brewing family in Hertfordshire, who had been serving as a staff officer in the Army. He and his family settled down in the village, and eventually acquired land ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	c1979
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


403	Article	A History of Tollesbury
	ID	DJG_HIS
	Title	A History of Tollesbury
	Abstract	A HISTORY OF TOLLESBURY "TOLESBIA ten et Almfrid de comite qd tenuit GUDMUND lib lit ho, uno manerio ....." so runs the beginning of one of two paragraphs concerning the Pariah of Tollesbury in the Hundred of "Tureatapla" or Thurstable, as recorded in Domesday Book 1068. Early ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


404	Article	Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair
	ID	DJG_PIE
	Title	Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair
	Abstract	Tollesbury is a large compact village, situated on rising ground, and joins on the west to the villages of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Tolleshunt Knights, Goldhanger and Salcott cum Virley, in the County of Essex. It is bounded on the sout, east and north-east sides by marshlands and saltings. The River ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	23 February 1968
	Source	Mersea Museum


405	Article	Douglas Jack Gurton - an Autobiography
	ID	DJG_BIP
	Title	Douglas Jack Gurton - an Autobiography
	Abstract	I was born on the 25th. January, 1908 (Robert Burns' Day) at the Hope Inn, Tollesbury, Essex, where my parents were the licensees at that time. My father, Ezra Walter Gurton had taken over about a year previously much to the dismay of my mother, Eva Jane Alverstone Gurton, who disliked inns ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


406	Article	An Essex Wildfowler - John Gurton 1848-1916
	ID	DJG_EWF
	Title	An Essex Wildfowler - John Gurton 1848-1916
	Abstract	Hanging on the wall of the grand staircase in the Chelmsford and Essex Museum, Oaklands Park, Chelmsford, is a formidable 18th century four bore flint lock mud sledge or punt gun, reputed to have been owned and used at one time by John Gurton of Tollesbury, my grandfather, John was the second ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum


407	Article	Christmasses of Yesteryear
	ID	DJG_CMY
	Title	Christmasses of Yesteryear
	Abstract	The first Christmas I can recall was that of 1910, I was approaching my third birthday. My mother had died a few months previously, and I had been taken into the care of my grandparents, John and Emma Gurton, who lived in United Cottages of the then "Woodrope Road". John and Emma had had ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	18 December 1979
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


408	Article	Those were the days - Tollesbury fishing
	ID	DJG_TWT
	Title	Those were the days - Tollesbury fishing
	Abstract	Reminiscences of childhood memories of over fifty years ago by Douglas Jack Gurton. The report by the Fishery Officer on the decline of the fishing industry in this area, reminds me of the struggle of local fishermen to gain a livelihood over fifty years ago. There were 117 smacks ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


409	Article	Tollesbury Village Bygones
	ID	DJG_VBY
	Title	Tollesbury Village Bygones
	Abstract	Before 1914 Tollesbury had its own "Town Crier", who presumably for a small fee could be hired to announce matters of importance to the parish ranging from meetings to arrivals of coal cargoes by barge at 13/- a ton, shot down outside your house, or at 19/- (95p) if put in the coal-hole or ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


410	Article	Night Soil Collection
	ID	DJG_NSL
	Title	Night Soil Collection
	Abstract	We are very apt to take things for granted these days - I refer to the public utilities, water supplies, lighting, refuse collection, and by no means least of all, the disposal of sewage. In the mid-eighties there was no sewer in Tollesbury in Essex and the population in excess of 1,000 had ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	18 March 1978
	Source	Mersea Museum


411	Article	Oyster Culture and Dredging
	ID	DJG_OYS
	Title	Oyster Culture and Dredging
	Abstract	It is accepted locally, but not generally known that there were oyster fisheries in these parts prior to Roman times, and one historian jocularly suggested that one of the reasons which prompted Julius Caesar to invade these shores was that he had been told that the delicate and succulent ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Keywords	cultch
	Source	Mersea Museum


412	Article	Tollesbury Trade and Industry
	ID	DJG_TAI
	Title	Tollesbury Trade and Industry
	Abstract	According to old records and maps the parish of Tollesbury covered a large area in olden times, extending as far as Tiptree Heath, which anciently was part of the great forest of Essex, to which the freeholders and tenants of surrounding parishes, including Tollesbury, had commonright for ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


413	Article	Mechanisation in Tollesbury
	ID	DJG_MEC
	Title	Mechanisation in Tollesbury
	Abstract	Mechanisation came to Tollesbury in a big way in 1919, before this reliance had to be placed on horses, sails and man. Mr George Osborne was the pioneer so far as motive transport was concerned, with the first 'bus "The Alpha", closely followed by Mr Richard Collins with one of Moore Bros' ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	17 January 1980
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


414	Article	The America Cup
	ID	DJG_YCP
	Title	The America Cup
	Abstract	Without doubt the series of excellent articles by Mr John Leather originally submitted in connection with the "Seafarers' Window" have stimulated interest in many newcomers and revived memories for many of the older generation in the parish. It is possibly fitting to recall that the colourful ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Keywords	yachting
	Published	1 March 1976
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


415	Article	The cruise of the "Dwyn Wen"
	ID	DJG_DWW
	Title	The cruise of the "Dwyn Wen"
	Abstract	Shortly after the Great War a Mr T. Belilios acquired a fine spoon bowed schooner yacht named "Dwyn Wen" 150 tons, which had been built at Beaumaris, Anglesey, and appropriately enough given a Welsh name which means "White Leader". Mr Belilios the new owner had business interests in Hong Kong ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


416	Article	The day the war ended
	ID	DJG_WWX
	Title	The day the war ended
	Abstract	During the past month (September 1979) we have been subjected to a great deal of news items by press, radio and television, regarding the "day war broke out", but the most happiest and thankful time was when it ended. I arrived home on 30th April 1945 from Europe where I had been serving in ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Keywords	ww2
	Published	29 September 1979
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


417	Article	Tollesbury sends its sons to war
	ID	DJG_WWB
	Title	Tollesbury sends its sons to war
	Abstract	Sunday 4th August 1914, as I remember it was a pleasantly warm sunny day. It was a time of full employaent within the village, and found the inhabitants going quietly about their daily tasks although it was the day following the Bank Holiday. During the week-end newspapers had carried headlines ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


418	Article	To School by Train - Tollesbury
	ID	DJG_PT3
	Title	To School by Train - Tollesbury
	Abstract	Before September 1921 local children who had gained county scholarships to either of the grammar or secondary schools at Chelmsford or Maldon had to travel by train from Tollesbury. No local boys had sat for the entrance examinations during the Great War 1914-1918, although local girls had ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


419	Article	Public Transport - the Omnibus
	ID	DJG_PT2
	Title	Public Transport - the Omnibus
	Abstract	Year 1919 was a momentous time - Victory had been achieved, it was a time for rejoicing and thankfulness, but also sadness in many families. Of the some three hundred young men and women who had served in the Forces, barely two thirds returned to the village, 48 young men had died, and ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	18 January 1979
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


420	Article	Public Transport - the Railway
	ID	DJG_PT1
	Title	Public Transport - the Railway
	Abstract	The Railway first came to Essex on the 18th June 1839 inaugurated by the "Eastern Counties Railway" first London to Norwich. Prior to that date, conveyance of passenger and goods traffic had to be effected by horse drawn coaches or carts, a long and tedious journey dependant on where one ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


421	Article	Public Transport - the Carriers
	ID	DJG_CRS
	Title	Public Transport - the Carriers
	Abstract	From earliest times, Tollesbury had a transport system, be it pack horse, horse drawn litter or horse drawn wagon. Geographically situated on the edge of marshland, with no through road, and placed midway between two important towns, Colchester and Maldon, it was due to the initiative and ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


422	Article	Crab and Winkle Express
	ID	DJG_CAW
	Title	Crab and Winkle Express
	Abstract	In 1902 after some few years of negotiations, a light single track railway was constructed for the Great Eastern from Kelvedon low level to Tollesbury, with intermediable stations and halts at Feering Halt, Inworth, Tiptree, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Guines Court (Halt) and ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Keywords	railway
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


423	Article	Tollesbury in War-time - WW1
	ID	DJG_WWC
	Title	Tollesbury in War-time - WW1
	Abstract	Recent publicity regarding remains of V2 rockets found near Thurslet, revives memories not only of World War II but the Great War of 1914-18 when Tollesbury was selected as a training area for infantry. On the 12th December 1914 the Essex Territorial Cyclist Battalion carried out a "sham ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	16 January 1975
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


424	Article	1914 - Tollesbury
	ID	DJG_WWA
	Title	1914 - Tollesbury
	Abstract	Year 1914 so far as weather was concerned was similar to present. but in other respects was most dissimilar, especially as it affected this remote village of Tollesbury. Starting off with a cold snap and fairly heavy fall of snow we children enjoyed skating on the brickfield pond and ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


425	Article	Yachting between the wars
	ID	DJG_YBW
	Title	Yachting between the wars
	Abstract	Yachting re-started slowly in 1919. The ravages of the four years 1914-1918 had taken their toll of both men and craft. Of the forty odd medium tonnage yachts berthed in the creeks, or hauled up into Messrs. Drake Bros' yard at Woodrolfe, Tollesbury, a number had changed hands. The beautiful ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	24 March 1980
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


426	Article	Village School Days
	ID	DJG_VSD
	Title	Village School Days
	Abstract	Over the years the village has been most fortunately favoured by the selection of headmasters, headmistresses, and teachers appointed to educate the children of the village, and we who were pupils should feel eternally grateful for the care, dedication, and knowledge imparted to us at ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


427	Article	Old Time Yachts and Yachtsmen
	ID	DJG_OTY
	Title	Old Time Yachts and Yachtsmen
	Abstract	With the advent of Spring, longer days and occasional bursts of sunshine, the quaysides and hards will soon be hives of activity, with an influx at weekends of many small boat owners and their friends all making feverish attempts to remove the ravages of last season, and the winter weather, from ...
	Author	Douglas Jack Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


428	Article	Atlantic Crossing in the SUNSHINE
	ID	DJG_SH2
	Title	Atlantic Crossing in the SUNSHINE
	Abstract	ATLANTIC CROSSING IN THE "SUNSHINE" The yacht "Sunshine" sailed from Tollesbury Pier on the River Blackwater Tollesbury, Essex, on 11th April 1911 with a navigator aboard as Capt Pettican had no "ticket". There was a crew of five with Sidney Mills, the fo'cle cook and myself as ...
	Author	Harry Redhouse
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


429	Article	Voyage of the SUNSHINE
	ID	DJG_SH1
	Title	Voyage of the SUNSHINE
	Abstract	SOME NOTABLE VOYAGES VOYAGE OF THE "SUNSHINE' For some years prior to 1910 a beautiful schooner yacht named "Sunshine", skippered by Capt Richard Page, invariably laid up each winter at Rickus Creek. In 1910 the schooner was purchased from its previous owner by Mr Weston ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


430	Article	The End of Zeppelin L33
	ID	DJG_ZEP
	Title	The End of Zeppelin L33
	Abstract	THE END OF ZEPPELIN L33 (The Authentic account) Zeppelin L33 was commanded by Kapitan - Leutenant Bocker. During the daylight hours of Saturday September 23rd. 1916 the weather was ideally suited for an airship attack on London. Three zeppelins, the L31, L32 and ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


431	Article	The ORARI plaque
	ID	DJG_NZS
	Title	The ORARI plaque
	Abstract	The article below was written by Douglas Gurton in 1976. The Hope Inn, Tollesbury, closed in 2009. The plaque is now in The Kings Head, Tollesbury. Hanging on the wall of the ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	14 August 1976
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


432	Article	Those were the days. Tollesbury childhood memories.
	ID	DJG_BIO
	Title	Those were the days. Tollesbury childhood memories.
	Abstract	"THOSE WERE THE DAYS" - Reminiscences of childhood memories of over fifty years ago I was born on the 25th January 1908 (Robert Burns Day) at the Hope Inn, Tollesbury, and when my mother died in somewhat tragic circumstances in 1910, I was taken to live with my grandparents, John and ...
	Author	Douglas Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


433	Article	Haven of Rest
	ID	DJG_SHP
	Title	Haven of Rest
	Abstract	HAVEN OF REST by Douglas Gurton of Tollesbury. Rumours were rife in the village in the early twenties that "large ocean going liners" would be coming to lay-up in the River Blackwater. As a small boy at the time I was keenly interested in this, and spent a great deal of my leisure at ...
	Author	Douglas Gurton
	Keywords	carisbrook castle
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton Collection


434	Article	Memory Lane - Chummy at Lions Transport Show
	ID	ML2015_009_L10
	Title	Memory Lane - Chummy at Lions Transport Show
	Abstract	I, together with several hundred others, went along to the Lions Summer show at Waldegraves on Saturday August 8th. I had hoped to travel in style in a vintage Eastern National bus but being unable to get there until late I only managed a short trip from the car park to the show ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


435	Article	Memory Lane - the wall by The Square
	ID	ML2015_008_P69
	Title	Memory Lane - the wall by The Square
	Abstract	Continuing on with last month's Coast Road theme, for this month we feature the ornamental wall in front of The Square which was built to house a barometer... The barometer was sold at ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	August 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


436	Article	Memory Lane - Hove Creek
	ID	ML2015_007_P63
	Title	Memory Lane - Hove Creek
	Abstract	Is it Hove, Hoov or Holve ? Mention that name to most people nowadays and in return you will usually get a puzzled look. Travelling down Coast Road and just before reaching the houseboats, you will drop down a short steep hill. You have just descended Hove Hill. In the past a sizeable ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


437	Article	Memory Lane - sailing barge up the Ray Channel
	ID	ML2015_006_P58
	Title	Memory Lane - sailing barge up the Ray Channel
	Abstract	On Thursday 23rd May, there was a unique step back in time when a sailing barge sailed all the way up Ray Channel to Shell Bungalow , Peldon. Des Kaliszewski, a native of Heybridge Basin, has been sailing the little barge CYGNET to many remote places around the East Coast and the ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


438	Article	The Old Ship Inn and City Hall
	ID	ML2015_005_P99
	Title	The Old Ship Inn and City Hall
	Abstract	During my eighty three years on Mersea Island, I've been to most corners and been in to a number of local buildings, I've even built a few but never had I been in to City Hall, the little chapel in The Lane. On our Sunday tour of Mersea recently we were driving down The Lane when we saw ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	May 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


439	Article	Digby's Austin Chummy at Mersea Lions Transport Show
	ID	ML2015_004_P58
	Title	Digby's Austin Chummy at Mersea Lions Transport Show
	Abstract	A 1926 Austin Chummy car, which used to deliver paraffin for Digby's of Mersea, is set to visit the Mersea Lions Transport Show in August. ...
	Author	John Gradwell
	Published	April 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


440	Article	Mersea Past. Uncle Herbert - and more on Primrose Buses
	ID	ML2015_004_P57
	Title	Mersea Past. Uncle Herbert - and more on Primrose Buses
	Abstract	Herbert Green was born in the cottage opposite The Firs Farm on the 2nd of November 1898, the second son of Roland and Laura. He attended West Mersea Council School and the school register shows that he was to do a bricklaying apprenticeship when he left. I have been unable to find any evidence that ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	April 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum
	Page	57


441	Article	Primrose Buses - 1920 school trip to London Zoo
	ID	ML2015_003_P57
	Title	Primrose Buses - 1920 school trip to London Zoo
	Abstract	Following on from last months feature on the Primrose Charabancs, this month I'm featuring a trip to London Zoo in July 1920 by a group of children from West Mersea Council School on a Primrose double decker open topped bus. The two images show the Karrier bus HK5195 preparing to leave ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	March 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


442	Article	Mersea Charabancs
	ID	ML2015_002_P59
	Title	Mersea Charabancs
	Abstract	One of the visitors to our museum's resource centre on Saturday 17th January was Lion John Gradwell. He is already working on the 2015 Lions Festival and in particicular the vintage vehicle display. The purpose of his visit was to find what the museum had on Edgar Potter ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	February 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


443	Article	West Mersea toilets
	ID	ML2015_001_P52
	Title	West Mersea toilets
	Abstract	An article written for Mersea Life, January 2015. I'm sure most of us in West Mersea are very concerned to hear that Colchester Borough Council plan to close three of our four public conveniences. In order to save themselves money, they want West Mersea Town Council to take them ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	January 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


444	Article	Mersea Past - Mersea Island during the War.
	ID	ML2014_012_P66
	Title	Mersea Past - Mersea Island during the War.
	Abstract	I am often asked what it was like to be on Mersea Island thoughout the war. As a schoolboy, my answer is that mainly it was good fun. Our parents had all of the worries but for us there was always something going on of interest. There were aircraft going over and they ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	December 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum


445	Article	Mersea in August
	ID	ML2014_009_P60
	Title	Mersea in August
	Abstract	My Cousin who lives in Ongar says 'There is always something going on in Mersea' and August was certainy no exception. The first week-end, as always, saw a clash between the Five Parishes Show on the Fingringhoe Ranges and the East Mersea Fete and Art Show. As Wendy and I put in ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	September 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum


446	Article	Welcome back KITTY
	ID	ML2014_008_P60
	Title	Welcome back KITTY
	Abstract	The sailing barge KITTY will be gracing the watersports at this year's West Mersea Town Regatta. It's now over sixty years since she did this and fortunately a local photogapher took a good series of photographs on the day, many of which I have in my collection. I believe the year ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	August 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum


447	Article	Mersea Past - Marjorie Costello, Postmen and Postladies
	ID	ML2014_007_P51
	Title	Mersea Past - Marjorie Costello, Postmen and Postladies
	Abstract	Recently one of Mersea's oldest inhabitants passed away, Mrs Marjorie Costello was 103 years old and was born in Peldon as Marjorie Hyam. She was about the last person to remember the German Zeppelin crashing at Little Wigborough during the First World War on 24 September ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	July 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum


448	Article	Mersea buses - article in Mersea Life.
	ID	ML2014_006_P60
	Title	Mersea buses - article in Mersea Life.
	Abstract	Looking through the May edition of Mersea Life and Lion John Gradwell's notice of the Lion's Transport Display and Summer Show, I was reminded that I must have a ride on one of the preserved Eastern National buses that will be running between the show at Waldegraves and the MICA centre again this ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	June 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum


449	Article	Sailing barges up the Rhine
	ID	ML2014_005_P61
	Title	Sailing barges up the Rhine
	Abstract	With this year, 2014, being the one hundreth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, our museum is putting on an exhibition as part of our summer show. One of the features is to record those who took part and were fortunate enough to return - some showing the signs of ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	May 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum


450	Article	Yes, Mersea Really did have a railway.
	ID	ML2014_003_P58
	Title	Yes, Mersea Really did have a railway.
	Abstract	There has been some uncertainty in recent issues Mersea Life as to whether Mersea ever did have a railway. I have in my collection, the old photo above, showing a ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	March 2014
	Source	Mersea Museum

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