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Elgar Mussett from Lions Talking Magazine 54
ID LN005402_001
Title Elgar Mussett from Lions Talking Magazine 54
Abstract Elgar Frank Mussett was born 1920, son of Frank Elgar Mussett. He is talking to Dennis Chatters. Part 1. Elgar went to Colchester Technical School and then started work as an...
Recorded October 1982

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Elgar Mussett from Lions Talking Magazine 55
ID LN005502_001
Title Elgar Mussett from Lions Talking Magazine 55
Abstract Elgar Mussett continues the story of his escape from Singapore. Having crossed Sumatra, the party reached Padang and hoping to be rescued by a British destroyer. There were about...
Recorded November 1982

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Harold Cutts talking to Dennis Chatters in 1982
ID LN005601_001
Title Harold Cutts talking to Dennis Chatters in 1982
Abstract Harold Cutts interviewed by Dennis Chatters on Lions Talking Magazine 56. Mersea's boating scene, past and future. Harold was related to 'Admiral' Bill Wyatt and ran Wyatts for...
Recorded December 1982

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Allan Gray from Lions Talking Magazine 56
ID LN005602_001
Title Allan Gray from Lions Talking Magazine 56
Abstract Allan Gray interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Allan is farmer at Bocking Hall Farm. He talks about coming to Mersea as tenant at the farm in 1940. It is reckoned 800...
Recorded December 1982

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Tiddler Mole from Lions Talking Magazine 59
ID LN005901_003
Title Tiddler Mole from Lions Talking Magazine 59
Abstract Charles 'Tiddler' Mole interviewed by Len Broadhurst Tiddler was born early 1911, lived in The Square. He was gardener and went with Bill Clarry when he was 14 and was with him...
Recorded February 1983

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Jack Saye interviewed by Dennis Chatters
ID LN005902_002
Title Jack Saye interviewed by Dennis Chatters
Abstract Jack talks about early shops on the island and life in Mill Road when he was young. Samuel White's first shop in Mill Road. Fred Smith the baker. C W A Scott, the airman,...
Recorded February 1983

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Joan Vince talking to Dennis Chatters
ID LN006002_001
Title Joan Vince talking to Dennis Chatters
Abstract Joan was on the buses during the War, working with Alf Stacey and Jack Saye. The remembers having 70 to 80 people on the single-decker last bus. Her talk includes her work as a...
Recorded March 1983

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Down on the Farm - Victor Gray Part 1
ID LN006201_002
Title Down on the Farm - Victor Gray Part 1
Abstract Down on the Farm - Victor Gray is interviewed by Len Broadhurst. Victor lives at New Hall Farm, Little Wigborough. Victor was in the Navy during the War, going in as an Ordinary...
Recorded May 1983

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Douglas Stoker interviewed by Dennis Chatters 1983
ID LN006202_001
Title Douglas Stoker interviewed by Dennis Chatters 1983
Abstract Douglas Stoker talking to Dennis Chatters on Lions Talking Magazine 62. Douglas talks about the MOLLIETTE when it was a club and a dance hall. Things gradually got out of hand, it...
Recorded May 1983

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Down on the Farm - Victor Gray Part 2
ID LN006301_001
Title Down on the Farm - Victor Gray Part 2
Abstract Victor Gray of New Hall Farm, Little Wigborough, interviewed by Len Broadhurst. The walk round the farm is continued from the previous tape. They are on the edge of the marsh -...
Recorded June 1983

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Down on the Farm - Victor Gray Part 3
ID LN006402_003
Title Down on the Farm - Victor Gray Part 3
Abstract Victor Gray from New Hall Farm Little Wigborough talks to Len Broadhurst. They go into the wood - the after rain, the water used to rush through it, but Vic has built a series of...
Recorded July 1963

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Johnny Milgate at age of 93 talking to Dennis Chatters in 1983
ID LN006601_001
Title Johnny Milgate at age of 93 talking to Dennis Chatters in 1983
Abstract From Lions Talking Magazine No. 66. This is part 1 of 2. Johnny was born 1890. School days when John Thorp was master. Johnny went crewing on various yachts, and spent time in...
Recorded September 1983

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Johnny Milgate at age of 93 talking to Dennis Chatters. Part 2.
ID LN006801_001
Title Johnny Milgate at age of 93 talking to Dennis Chatters. Part 2.
Abstract From Lions Talking Magazine 68. Part 2 or 2. Johnny continues his stories of yachting prior to WW1. During WW1 he was in the Navy - sailed on the armed merchant cruiser LACONIA,...
Recorded November 1983

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Harry 'Tucker' Cross interviewed by Dennis Chatters
ID LN007002_001
Title Harry 'Tucker' Cross interviewed by Dennis Chatters
Abstract 'Tucker' Cross interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Tucker's real name is Harry. He was born in Tendring, moved to Boxted, and then came to Langenhoe in 1911. He talks about Peldon, and...
Recorded January 1984

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Ken Ham interviewed by Dennis Chatters
ID LN007201_002
Title Ken Ham interviewed by Dennis Chatters
Abstract Ken Ham interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Ken is a regular listener to the Lions Talking Magazine and spent his working life in farming. His father was registrar in Mersea for many...
Recorded March 1984

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Patricia Catchpole from Lions Talking Magazine 73.
ID LN007301_001
Title Patricia Catchpole from Lions Talking Magazine 73.
Abstract Patricia Catchpole (Catchy) from the Riding School in West Mersea, interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Patricia came to Mersea when she was 11 - she was brought up in Suffolk, on a...
Recorded April 1984

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Mary Stevens - author of 'Old Spiery'
ID LN008602_001
Title Mary Stevens - author of 'Old Spiery'
Abstract Mary Stevens interviewed by Dennis Chatters. Mary is Archivist at Mersea Museum and has recently written a book on Revd. Pierrepont Edwards (Old Spiery). The conversations that...
Recorded May 1985

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Eric White on the Clifford White Empire - Lions Talking Magazine
ID LN013101_001
Title Eric White on the Clifford White Empire - Lions Talking Magazine
Abstract Eric White, son of Clifford White, gives a history of what became the Clifford White Empire on Mersea. The White family have been on Mersea for along time. Eric's great...
Recorded September 1989

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Reg Hempstead interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 1990
ID LN013701_001
Title Reg Hempstead interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 1990
Abstract Lions Talking Magazine 135, March 1990, introduced by Frank Osborn. Reg Hempstead is interviewed by Dennis Chatters and Reg D'Wit. At the BBC broadcast from the White Hart -...
Recorded March 1990

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John Jowers interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 140
ID LN014002_001
Title John Jowers interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 140
Abstract [03m] John Jowers talking to Frank Osborn. John is Chairman of Fisherman's Association, Councillor on WM Town Council, and has just elected to Town Mayor. They talk about fish...
Recorded June 1990

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Norman Burgess interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 141
ID LN014101_001
Title Norman Burgess interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine 141
Abstract Norman 'Joe' Burgess interviewed by Dennis Chatters. He talks about the MOLLIETTE, a coaster built in Kent, of reinforced concrete. She was not very successful as a coaster -...
Recorded July 1990

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Harold Rudlin from Lions Talking Magazine 142 August 1990
ID LN014202_001
Title Harold Rudlin from Lions Talking Magazine 142 August 1990
Abstract Harold Rudlin talking to Frank Osborn for Lions Talking Magazine. Harold worked for the Electricity Board on Mersea. [except for a period when he was called up in and after WW2,...
Recorded August 1990

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Henry Heath at Pete Hall - Lions Talking Magazine 160
ID LN016001_001
Title Henry Heath at Pete Hall - Lions Talking Magazine 160
Abstract Henry Heath interviewed by Frank Osborn Henry has taken over Pete Hall, and talks about it. Present house thought to be 1780. An earlier house supposed to be in Domesday Book,...
Recorded February 1992

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The 'Colchester' Earthquake of 1884
ID LN016701_003
Title The 'Colchester' Earthquake of 1884
Abstract The 'Colchester' Earthquake - recording from ?. Narrator talks to Dr Brian Skipp about damage in Colchester. Jumbo was completed just before the earthquake and was undamaged. It is...
Recorded September 1992

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Ken Mole interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine
ID LN019002_001
Title Ken Mole interviewed for Lions Talking Magazine
Abstract Ken Mole interviewed by Albert Streeter Lions Talking Magazine 190 in August 1994. Meet a Lion - the new President Ken Mole, who has been In the Lions for 16 years. Ken has a...
Recorded August 1994

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Regattas Past and Present by Ron Green - from Lions Talking Magazine.
ID LN019101_002
Title Regattas Past and Present by Ron Green - from Lions Talking Magazine.
Abstract Ron Green talking about Mersea Regattas past and present, recorded August 1994 for Lions Talking Magazine 191. He is talking to Albert Streeter and John Foxall. An article in...
Recorded September 1994

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John Milgate interviewed by Stuart Devenish for Lions Talking Magazine
ID LN020902_003
Title John Milgate interviewed by Stuart Devenish for Lions Talking Magazine
Abstract John Milgate, West Mersea shipwright, interviewd by Stuart Devenish for Mersea Island Lions Talking Magazine 209, recorded in March 1996. John's grandfather came to Mersea in...
Recorded March 1996

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Freda Smith school teacher recorded 1996
ID LN021301_002
Title Freda Smith school teacher recorded 1996
Abstract Freda Smith née Keene interviewed by Stuart Devenish on Mersea Island Lions Talking Magazine 213 August 1996, introduced by John Foxall. Freda was a teacher at Mersea...
Recorded August 1996

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