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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 256 files - displaying 51 to 100 sorted by ID
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Article |
Christmasses of Yesteryear |
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ID |
DJG_CMY |
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Title |
Christmasses of Yesteryear |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
18 December 1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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52 |
Article |
Public Transport - the Carriers |
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ID |
DJG_CRS |
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Title |
Public Transport - the Carriers |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Brief history of the "Delft" Plate |
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ID |
DJG_DEL |
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Title |
Brief history of the "Delft" Plate |
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Abstract |
September 1944 found the Detachment of Civil Affairs,
to which I had been assigned, halted at a small village
Gavere near Ghent, Belgium. We had proceeded rapidly from
Arromanches, Normandy. The enemy was falling back rapidly
over the Rhine, possibly fearing being over run by the Russians
from ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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54 |
Article |
The cruise of the "Dwyn Wen" |
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ID |
DJG_DWW |
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Title |
The cruise of the "Dwyn Wen" |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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55 |
Article |
An Essex Wildfowler - John Gurton 1848-1916 |
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ID |
DJG_EWF |
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Title |
An Essex Wildfowler - John Gurton 1848-1916 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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56 |
Article |
A History of Tollesbury |
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ID |
DJG_HIS |
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Title |
A History of Tollesbury |
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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 historians ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The late Mr Kenneth Osborne |
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ID |
DJG_KEN |
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Title |
The late Mr Kenneth Osborne |
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Abstract |
His many friends including former passengers were stunned
to learn on Friday the 17th September that Mr. Kenneth Osborne
had suddenly passed away at Westminster Hospital where he had
undergone an operation. "Ken" as he was affectionately known
had for many years taken an active part in the day ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Mechanisation in Tollesbury |
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ID |
DJG_MEC |
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Title |
Mechanisation in Tollesbury |
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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' ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
17 January 1980
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Night Soil Collection |
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ID |
DJG_NSL |
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Title |
Night Soil Collection |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
18 March 1978
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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60 |
Article |
The ORARI plaque |
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ID |
DJG_NZS |
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Title |
The ORARI plaque |
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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 Porthole Bar in the "Hope ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
14 August 1976
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Old Time Yachts and Yachtsmen |
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ID |
DJG_OTY |
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Title |
Old Time Yachts and Yachtsmen |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas Jack Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Oyster Culture and Dredging |
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ID |
DJG_OYS |
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Title |
Oyster Culture and Dredging |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Keywords |
cultch |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair |
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ID |
DJG_PIE |
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Title |
Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
23 February 1968
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Public Transport - the Railway |
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ID |
DJG_PT1 |
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Title |
Public Transport - the Railway |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Public Transport - the Omnibus |
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ID |
DJG_PT2 |
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Title |
Public Transport - the Omnibus |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
18 January 1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
To School by Train - Tollesbury |
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ID |
DJG_PT3 |
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Title |
To School by Train - Tollesbury |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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67 |
Article |
Voyage of the SUNSHINE |
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ID |
DJG_SH1 |
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Title |
Voyage of the SUNSHINE |
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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 Carlton, an ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Atlantic Crossing in the SUNSHINE |
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ID |
DJG_SH2 |
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Title |
Atlantic Crossing in the SUNSHINE |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Harry Redhouse |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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69 |
Article |
Haven of Rest |
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ID |
DJG_SHP |
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Title |
Haven of Rest |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas Gurton |
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Keywords |
carisbrook castle |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton Collection
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Article |
Tollesbury Trade and Industry |
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ID |
DJG_TAI |
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Title |
Tollesbury Trade and Industry |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club |
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ID |
DJG_TSC |
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Title |
The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
c1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Those were the days - Tollesbury fishing |
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ID |
DJG_TWT |
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Title |
Those were the days - Tollesbury fishing |
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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 owned ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Tollesbury Village Bygones |
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ID |
DJG_VBY |
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Title |
Tollesbury Village Bygones |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Three Voyages |
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ID |
DJG_VOY |
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Title |
Three Voyages |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
13 February 1980
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Village School Days |
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ID |
DJG_VSD |
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Title |
Village School Days |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
1914 - Tollesbury |
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ID |
DJG_WWA |
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Title |
1914 - Tollesbury |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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77 |
Article |
Tollesbury sends its sons to war |
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ID |
DJG_WWB |
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Title |
Tollesbury sends its sons to war |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Tollesbury in War-time - WW1 |
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ID |
DJG_WWC |
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Title |
Tollesbury in War-time - WW1 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
16 January 1975
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The day the war ended |
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ID |
DJG_WWX |
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Title |
The day the war ended |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Keywords |
ww2 |
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Published |
29 September 1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
Yachting between the wars |
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ID |
DJG_YBW |
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Title |
Yachting between the wars |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
24 March 1980
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The America Cup |
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ID |
DJG_YCP |
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Title |
The America Cup |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Keywords |
yachting |
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Published |
1 March 1976
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The End of Zeppelin L33 |
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ID |
DJG_ZEP |
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Title |
The End of Zeppelin L33 |
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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 L33 were directed ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
River Colne on its way to the Sea by Douglas Went |
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ID |
DW18 |
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Title |
River Colne on its way to the Sea by Douglas Went |
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Abstract |
A collection of photographs by Douglas Went or the River Colne making its way down to the sea. The location of the first photograph is not yet known but an early photograph is at Great Maplestead. The collection ends at Brightlingsea, having had a brief a foray into the Blackwater.
None of the ... |
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Author |
Douglas Went |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Merriel Gallifant
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Article |
David W. Gallifant. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023 |
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ID |
DWG_DNS |
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Title |
David W. Gallifant. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023 |
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Abstract |
DAVID W. GALLIFANT. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023
... |
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Author |
Georgina Nicholls |
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Published |
11 May 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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85 |
Article |
Baring Gould and "Mehalah" |
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ID |
EADT_1924_JAN |
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Title |
Baring Gould and "Mehalah" |
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Abstract |
" Mehalah" was not only written when Mr. Baring-Gould held the Crown living of East Mersea, but the whole scene of the story is located in the immediate neighbourhood in which the novelist then occasionally resided.
At that time I held the curacy of Kelvedon, a little town on the mainline, and ... |
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Published |
1924
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Source |
Mersea Museum / John Hawes
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86 |
Article |
Essex Archaeology and History |
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ID |
EAH_014_077 |
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Title |
Essex Archaeology and History |
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Abstract |
The only road onto Mersea Island crosses the end of the Strood and Pyefleet channels on a causeway known as the Strood. The road has been raised over the years, but below the present road can be found oak piles which indicate the presence of a causeway here in Anglo-Saxon times. The name 'Strood' is ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Keywords |
dendro |
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Volume |
14
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Published |
1982
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Essex Archaeology and History
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Page |
77
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87 |
Article |
Mersea Island: the 11th-century Boundaries; *** King Edward Charter |
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ID |
EAH_014_087 |
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Title |
Mersea Island: the 11th-century Boundaries; *** King Edward Charter |
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Abstract |
Deramy's Stone stands on the boundary between East and West Mersea. The plaque below the stone (erected in January 1975) says the stone marks the Boundary of the Manor of West Mersea granted by King Edward the Confessor to the Monastery of St. Ouen in 1046. However, there is much doubt about this.
... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Keywords |
Deremy's, Deramy's, Deramy, Deremy |
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Volume |
14
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Published |
1982
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Essex Archaeology and History
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Page |
87
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88 |
Article |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A. |
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ID |
EAS_1936_P155 |
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Title |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A. |
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Abstract |
IN MEMORIAM.
THE REV. LLEWELLYN CHRISTOPHER WATSON BULLOCK, B.A.
Obituary from Essex Archaeological Society
The death of the Rev. Ll. C. Watson Bullock on 10 February, 1936, deprived the Society of a ... |
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Keywords |
revd, rev |
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Published |
1936
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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89 |
Article |
Birch. A village church in the 1880s |
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ID |
EC53_010_A29 |
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Title |
Birch. A village church in the 1880s |
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Abstract |
Birch - A Village Church In The Eighties by Arthur E. May
From Essex Countryside magazine August 1953 transcribed by Joe Vince
Birch, where the author was born and spent his childhood, is a small village about five miles from Colchester. These recollections of its parish ... |
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Author |
Arthur E. May |
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Published |
October 1953
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe |
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ID |
EC63_02_A01 |
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Title |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe |
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Abstract |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe
Article from Essex Countryside magazine February 1963 transcribed by Joe Vince August 2023
Where Colne and Blackwater meet stands Mersea Island, separated from the remainder of Essex by long inlets from these two rivers.
To be very truthful, the two parishes ... |
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Author |
G.W. Howe |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times |
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ID |
EC64_05_316 |
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Title |
The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times |
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Abstract |
It was called "Legra" in the Domesday Book
By the Rev. James Allen (Vicar of Layer de la Haye)
Article from Essex Countryside Magazine May 1964
The name Layer de la Haye is one of ... |
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Author |
Rev. James Allen |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Villages of Great and Little Wigborough by the Rev. James Allen |
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ID |
EC66_04_A432 |
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Title |
The Villages of Great and Little Wigborough by the Rev. James Allen |
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Abstract |
The summer visitor on his way to Mersea Island from the direction of Maldon will pass through the villages of Great
and Little Wigborough. He will see the signs indicating the village names, but he will fail to see a "village" as
one usually understands the meaning of the word. The church is in ... |
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Author |
Rev. James Allen |
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Published |
April 1966
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Country Food in Essex |
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ID |
EC72_03_038 |
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Title |
Country Food in Essex |
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Abstract |
COUNTRY FOOD IN ESSEX by Sybil Brand
Sixty years ago people ate foods that were different from those we are used to at the present time. They were great
delicacies; sweet pickled ham, for instance, was made from a recipe that had been handed down in the family for
generations.
If you ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Published |
March 1972
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Essex Countryside
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Page |
38-39
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96 |
Article |
An Urban Dream of Mersea |
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ID |
ECS_1968_MAY03_033 |
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Title |
An Urban Dream of Mersea |
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Abstract |
... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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97 |
Article |
Preserving the 'Mersea Pea' |
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ID |
ECS_PEA |
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Title |
Preserving the 'Mersea Pea' |
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Abstract |
TIME OUT article from Essex County Standard, transcribed by Pauline Winch
... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Village Green on Mersea Shore |
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Title |
The Village Green on Mersea Shore |
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Abstract |
WEST MERSEA will have the most unusual village green in Essex if a move by retired general practitioner Dr Alec Grant to register a 400-yard stretch of its waterfront as a public open space is successful.
Dr Grant, a past secretary of the Mersea Island Society, has carried out the registration ... |
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c1969
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Mersea Museum
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