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Talk on West Mersea Church by T B Millatt Part 1
ID AA010020
Title Talk on West Mersea Church by T B Millatt Part 1
Abstract Note that in the talk, Tom says he believes the double dedication to St. Peter and St. Paul if fairly recent - but since then a 1492 will has been found which gives this...
Recorded 30 June 1985

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Talk on West Mersea Church by T B Millatt Part 2
ID AA010021
Title Talk on West Mersea Church by T B Millatt Part 2
Abstract [07m] 16th Century iron-bound solid oak chest at the back of the church. It has 3 locks and 3 separate keys would be necessary - the vicar and two churchwardens needed to open it....
Recorded 30 June 1985

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Talk on West Mersea Church by T B Millatt Part 3
ID AA010023
Title Talk on West Mersea Church by T B Millatt Part 3
Abstract [01m] Churchyard was closed about 1900 by an order in council because the churchyard was full and they then opened up Barfield Road and later Firs Road Cemeteries. [12m] 1882...
Recorded 30 June 1985

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Ron Hall from Maldon talking about fish traps in the Blackwater.
ID AA010180
Title Ron Hall from Maldon talking about fish traps in the Blackwater.
Abstract The first part covers fish traps - what they are and when they were built. The second part gives a more personal view of his involvement and how it lead to proper surveys and...
Recorded 16 June 2007

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Ron Hall talking to Don Rainbird about fish traps.
ID AA010181
Title Ron Hall talking to Don Rainbird about fish traps.
Abstract This is a more informal talk which followed Part 1 which Ron recorded for the Audio Guides. To listen to Part 1, click
Recorded 16 June 2007

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Paul Jasper - Part 1
ID AA010770
Title Paul Jasper - Part 1
Abstract Interview with Paul Jasper at his home 33 Cambridge Road, Colchester, on 9th April 2009. Also present were Brian Jay and Tony Millatt, both from West Mersea. [04m]Paul describes...
Recorded 9 April 2009

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Paul Jasper - Part 2
ID AA010772
Title Paul Jasper - Part 2
Abstract Aircraft - Brian Jay mentions he pulled up a Typhoon from the river and Paul talks about the types of plane to be seen flying into Bradwell Bay. Paul and his friends used to get...
Recorded 9 April 2009

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Paul Jasper - Part 3
ID AA010774
Title Paul Jasper - Part 3
Abstract The Dam Busters came over Mersea while practising on Abberton Reservoir
Recorded 9 April 2009

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Cecil Mussett - Mersea seed grower and postman. Part 1.
ID AA010910
Title Cecil Mussett - Mersea seed grower and postman. Part 1.
Abstract Cecil Edward Mussett talking to Brian Jay and Tony Millatt. Also present was Cecil's wife Jane née Cudmore. Recorded at Jane and Cecil's home at Alpine Cottage, East Road. ...
Recorded 2 February 2010

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Cecil Mussett - Mersea seed grower and postman. Part 2
ID AA010920
Title Cecil Mussett - Mersea seed grower and postman. Part 2
Abstract Cecil Mussett continued. When he finished with seed growing, Cecil started to work for Royal Mail delivering the post. After 5 years mostly working in Colchester, he worked on...
Recorded 2 February 2010

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Royal British Legion - Mersea Island
ID AA011040
Title Royal British Legion - Mersea Island
Abstract A short history of the British Legion on Mersea Island. The inaugural meeting of the Mersea Island Branch of the Royal British Legion took place at 7.30pm on 28 July 1921 in the...
Recorded 18 April 2011

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Oystering by Allan Bird for Museum Audio Guides
ID AA011058
Title Oystering by Allan Bird for Museum Audio Guides
Abstract Allan talking about his 47 years in the oyster business in West Mersea, the boats, the people, Native Oysters, the disease bonamia. Recorded for Audio Guides in Mersea Museum. ...
Recorded 25 April 2011

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John Barton - growing up in WW2. Part 1.
ID AA011541
Title John Barton - growing up in WW2. Part 1.
Abstract John is talking to his daughter Sophie. School - John went to Miss Francis, then a Convent School in Colchester, but travelling into Colchester was dangerous in the early years...
Recorded July 2015

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John Barton - growing up in WW2. Part 2 of 3.
ID AA011542
Title John Barton - growing up in WW2. Part 2 of 3.
Abstract John Barton is talking to his daughter Sophie. He was born 1931. Impact of the War on Mersea. Friends killed by mine [ Ian Michelle ]. Food. Air raids. John saw no foxes on...
Recorded July 2015

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John Barton - growing up in WW2. Part 3 of 3.
ID AA011543
Title John Barton - growing up in WW2. Part 3 of 3.
Abstract Toys, games. Parents left children to themselves a lot. Cooking on a range in main room heated by coal or wood. Triplex unit with ovens at the side. No refrigerator - butter...
Recorded July 2015

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Searching Mersea audio files
ID AA011600
Title Searching Mersea audio files
Abstract Audio recorded by Lawrence Northall of CITiZAN 2017-8 for Search Mersea project. Files are available on searchingmersea.com and fed from SoundCloud Some of these files are...
Recorded 2018

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Am I a Mersea-ite ? Talk by Heather Haward
ID AA011640
Title Am I a Mersea-ite ? Talk by Heather Haward
Abstract Talk by Heather Haward to Mersea Island Society at Mersea Museum. Also present and appearing occasionally are Heather's husband Richard, her sister Jennifer, Jennifer's daughter...
Recorded 1 March 2023

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Amphora - Audio Guide 2019
ID AG19_002
Title Amphora - Audio Guide 2019
Abstract Roman amphora dredged from the sea locally in the 1940s.

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Martabani Jar - Audio Guide 2019
ID AG19_003
Title Martabani Jar - Audio Guide 2019
Abstract Martabani Jar and Spanish Olive Oil Jar

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Bones from Mersea Barrow - Audio Guide 2019
ID AG19_004
Title Bones from Mersea Barrow - Audio Guide 2019
Abstract 2,000 year old lead box, glass urn and bones from Mersea Barrow

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Child's Burial Tomb- Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_005
Title Child's Burial Tomb- Audio Guides 2019
Abstract Child's Burial Tomb found near Beach Road

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Skull - Quern - Tusk - Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_006
Title Skull - Quern - Tusk - Audio Guides 2019
Abstract Display case contents - Skull, boardwalk timbers, quern

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Finding skull - Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_006_001
Title Finding skull - Audio Guides 2019
Abstract Finding skull - Daniel French

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Oysters - Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_028
Title Oysters - Audio Guides 2019
Abstract Oysters in local waters
Recorded 2017

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Oystering - Allan Bird - Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_028_001
Title Oystering - Allan Bird - Audio Guides 2019
Abstract 50 years of oystering by a Mersea oysterman

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Evacuees - Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_036
Title Evacuees - Audio Guides 2019
Abstract Evacuees arrive in the area

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Helen Searle- Audio Guides 2019
ID AG19_036_001
Title Helen Searle- Audio Guides 2019
Abstract Helen Searle - evacuees in West Mersea

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Romans - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_008
Title Romans - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract The Romans on Mersea

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Fisherman's Cottage - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_016
Title Fisherman's Cottage - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract Fisherman's Cottage in Mersea Museum

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Fish Trunk - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_019
Title Fish Trunk - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract Fish Trunk made by William Wyatt

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Farming - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_024
Title Farming - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract Farming on Mersea Island

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Allan Bird - Oystering - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_030_001
Title Allan Bird - Oystering - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract 50 years of oystering by a Mersea oysterman
Recorded June 2011

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Farming through the ages - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_039
Title Farming through the ages - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract Farming through the ages
Recorded April 2023

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Farms and Barns - Audio Guides 2023
ID AG23_040
Title Farms and Barns - Audio Guides 2023
Abstract Farms and Barns
Recorded April 2023

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Lions Talking Magazine Cassettes
ID LN000101
Title Lions Talking Magazine Cassettes
Abstract Boxes or original LTM cassette tapes donated by Ron Green to Museum July 2017. MBOX163 has about 88 cassettes 1979 - c1985. All these should already be digitised. MBOX164 has...

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Dennis Chatters and Bernard Cudmore talking about the carrier business
ID LN001301_001
Title Dennis Chatters and Bernard Cudmore talking about the carrier business
Abstract Dennis Chatters talks about the carrier business and interviews Bernard Cudmore. Bernard Cudmore grew up in The Lane. His father [Alfred Cudmore], in the early 1920s, did...
Recorded August 1979

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Lions Talking Magazine No.13 Side 2
ID LN001302
Title Lions Talking Magazine No.13 Side 2
Abstract
  1. Dramatic Club Music Hall
  2. School prize giving - Mrs Anthony Buck.
  3. Gardening
  4. To Kill a Mocking Bird - Reading
  5. Meet a Lion - Jim Cook from the Lawnmower...
Recorded August 1979

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Bill Clarry interviewed by Dennis Chatters - 1
ID LN002401_001
Title Bill Clarry interviewed by Dennis Chatters - 1
Abstract Bill was born 1883 and is probably the Island's oldest resident. Bill covers a lot of the island's history. He was present when the wheel tomb / pharos was uncovered in Yorick Road...
Recorded July 1980

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Mrs Ida South retires after teaching for 39 years at West Mersea School
ID LN002501_001
Title Mrs Ida South retires after teaching for 39 years at West Mersea School
Abstract Frank Osborn talking to Mrs Ida South on Lions Talking Magazine number 25 from 1980. She had has just retired from West Mersea School, She taught there for 39 years, and had...
Recorded August 1980

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Yvonne Barbor of Lanhams, Lodge Lane, Peldon
ID LN002501_002
Title Yvonne Barbor of Lanhams, Lodge Lane, Peldon
Abstract Yvonne Barbor of Lanhams, Lodge Lane, Peldon interviewed by Dennis Chatters on Lions Talking Magazine 25. Yvonne and her husband Ronnie Barbor ran a Garden Centre in Peldon in...
Recorded August 1980

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Bill Clarry interviewed by Dennis Chatters - 2
ID LN003201_001
Title Bill Clarry interviewed by Dennis Chatters - 2
Abstract About 210 years ago great grandfather Green worked for Mason at West Hall, and planted lime trees round the inside of the church yard and also the tree on the green opposite the...
Recorded February 1981

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Jack Saye talking to Dennis Chatters about bus services
ID LN004002_002
Title Jack Saye talking to Dennis Chatters about bus services
Abstract Introduced by Kevin Baldwin. Dennis Chatters is interviewing Jack Saye. Jack was a bus driver for almost all his working life, including WW2 when there would be 3 buses on the last...
Recorded August 1981

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Hardy Weaver talking about the Clifford White's empire on Mersea.
ID LN004101_001
Title Hardy Weaver talking about the Clifford White's empire on Mersea.
Abstract Hardy Weaver interviewed by Dennis Chatters for Lions Talking Magazine 41. Part 1 of 2. Hardy worked for Clifford Whites for many years and gives much background to the various...
Recorded September 1981

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Hugh Banham talking about Digby's shop Part 1
ID LN004202_002
Title Hugh Banham talking about Digby's shop Part 1
Abstract The first petrol pump on the Island. From Lions Talking Magazine 42 Side 2.
Recorded 29 October 1981

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Hardy Weaver talking about the Clifford White's empire on Mersea. Part 2.
ID LN004301_001
Title Hardy Weaver talking about the Clifford White's empire on Mersea. Part 2.
Abstract Hardy Weaver interviewed by Dennis Chatters for Lions Talking Magazine 43. Part 2 of 2. Hardy worked for Clifford Whites for many years and continues to gives much background to...
Recorded November 1981

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Hugh Banham talking about Digby's shop Part 2
ID LN004401_002
Title Hugh Banham talking about Digby's shop Part 2
Abstract The founding of Digby's. Hugh Banham came to Mersea 11 Jan 1924 with his mother. He was 12 - the bus from Colchester was a converted Humber car driven by A.W. Berry. Hugh...
Recorded December 1981

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Lions Talking Magazine No.45 Side 1.
ID LN004501
Title Lions Talking Magazine No.45 Side 1.
Abstract
  1. Dennis Chatters talking about Lions, Lions International, and this Talking Magazine. Dennis talks about the recording facilities - in the dining room at the back of his...
Recorded January 1982

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Hugh Banham talking about Digby's shop Part 3
ID LN004502_003
Title Hugh Banham talking about Digby's shop Part 3
Abstract Why are Digby's tide tables so accurate? From Lions Talking Magazine 45 side 1.
Recorded January 1982

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Ron Green and Dennis Chatters talking about Mersea postcards
ID LN004702_001
Title Ron Green and Dennis Chatters talking about Mersea postcards
Abstract From Lions Talking Magazine No. 47. Ron and Dennis go through some of their postcards and talk about the scenes shown and their history.
Recorded March 1982

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Peggy Fortnum - illustrator of Paddington Bear.
ID LN005002_001
Title Peggy Fortnum - illustrator of Paddington Bear.
Abstract Mrs Peggy Nuttall-Smith interviewed by Dennis Chatters for Lions Talking Magazine on Mersea. Using her maiden name of Peggy Fortnum, she was the illustrator for the Paddington Bear...
Recorded June 1982

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