ID: KBC_BSM / Kevin Bruce

TitleBill Smith - photographer from Burnham on Crouch
AbstractBill Smith was a keen photographer and he often had some published in Essex Countryside. He and his wife Dorothy lived at Burnham and they were members of Tillingham WEA and Burnham History Society. He did his own developing and printing and I think the negs were given to me by his widow.

A number of photographs from Bill Smith have come to Mersea Museum website via Kevin Bruce.

AuthorKevin Bruce
SourceMersea Museum
IDKBC_BSM
Related Images:
Coopers Beach 1946-47 A negative from Bill Smith KBC_011
ImageID:   KBC_011
Title: Coopers Beach 1946-47
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:c1947
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Coopers Beach, East Mersea. A negative from Bill Smith KBC_013
ImageID:   KBC_013
Title: Coopers Beach, East Mersea.
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:c1947
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Coopers Beach, East Mersea A negative from Bill Smith KBC_017
ImageID:   KBC_017
Title: Coopers Beach, East Mersea
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:c1947
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Sitting on the seawall. A negative from Bill Smith KBC_019
ImageID:   KBC_019
Title: Sitting on the seawall.
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:c1947
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. The chalet has the name Spray Cabin. Ford Zephyr 258PNO - PNO registrations were first issued April 1959. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_021
ImageID:   KBC_021
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. The chalet has the name "Spray Cabin".
Ford Zephyr 258PNO - PNO registrations were first issued April 1959.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea - the Front. The cliff edge has been replaced with sea wall topped with a concrete wall to keep the sea out. The chalets all replaced with caravans. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_023
ImageID:   KBC_023
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea - the Front. The cliff edge has been replaced with sea wall topped with a concrete wall to keep the sea out. The chalets all replaced with caravans.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea - the kitchen with Belling electric cooker. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_027
ImageID:   KBC_027
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea - the kitchen with Belling electric cooker.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_029
ImageID:   KBC_029
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_031
ImageID:   KBC_031
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_033
ImageID:   KBC_033
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Entertainment - a mains valve radio. This one, made by Ekco (E.K. Cole) who were in Southend, is a modern one, as it includeds FM (VHF) as well as Short, Medium and Long Waves. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_035
ImageID:   KBC_035
Title: Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea.
Entertainment - a mains valve radio. This one, made by Ekco (E.K. Cole) who were in Southend, is a modern one, as it includeds FM (VHF) as well as Short, Medium and Long Waves.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
The beach in front of chalets at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. The sea wall is yet to be built. Photograph by Bill Smith. KBC_037
ImageID:   KBC_037
Title: The beach in front of chalets at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. The sea wall is yet to be built.
Photograph by Bill Smith.
Date:c1960
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
High tide at the Strood. One Eastern National bus coming through and another waiting to go. </p><p>The bus on the right is one of a series that had new bodies fitted to an old chassis in 1949. A negative from Bill Smith KBC_051
ImageID:   KBC_051
Title: High tide at the Strood. One Eastern National bus coming through and another waiting to go.

The bus on the right is one of a series that had new bodies fitted to an old chassis in 1949.
A negative from Bill Smith

Date:After April 1949
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Buses crossing the Strood at High Tide. Eastern National single decker AVW470 was was one of a batch of 20 bought new in 1934. It was a Dennis Lancet 32 seater. A negative from Bill Smith KBC_053
ImageID:   KBC_053
Title: Buses crossing the Strood at High Tide.
Eastern National single decker AVW470 was was one of a batch of 20 bought new in 1934. It was a Dennis Lancet 32 seater.
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:After April 1949
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
Waiting for the tide at the Strood. Cars at the mainland end. AXV445, HLF549 A negative from Bill Smith KBC_057
ImageID:   KBC_057
Title: Waiting for the tide at the Strood. Cars at the mainland end.
AXV445, HLF549
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:After April 1949
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce
High Tide at the Mersea Strood -looking southwest down the Strood Channel, with West Mersea on the left. A negative from Bill Smith KBC_061
ImageID:   KBC_061
Title: High Tide at the Mersea Strood -looking southwest down the Strood Channel, with West Mersea on the left.
A negative from Bill Smith
Date:c1949
Source:Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce