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...
[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....
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...