1. TARGET. Designed ad built by The Rowhedge Ironworks Co. Ltd., Shipbuilders and Engineers. Colchester.
Ship No. 526. 1936.
Builder's name plate from ...
Date: 1936
Image ID IA01_021

2. Mersea School Silver Jubilee 1935.
Photograph donated by Pam Lee. Pam is the small dark haired child tugging her ear. Mr Wilkinson, a teacher, is wearing ...
Date: cMay 1935
Image ID IA01_081

3. John Lungley, Boot and Shoe maker. Captains Road. Copy Repairs neatly executed. Yacht work in all its branches. Chimney sweep on bicycle.
The weather vane ...
Date: 1912
Image ID IA01_095

4. 90 years of Fen Farm. Candy Evans explores the history of an Essex campsite that has been serving campers for nine decades.

In 1923, a group of ...
Date: July 2014
Image ID IA01_121

5. The Houseboats, West Mersea. Staying on HISPANIA. Another copy of this postcard was mailed 1955.
This card is used in Mersea Island by John Marriage, with ...
Date: 1938
Image ID IA01_151

6. Gas turbine powered Shell tanker AURIS at sea - date unknown.
Notes from the back of the photograph:
AURIS Shell Tankers 8,221/1948 12 kts appearance ...
Date: c1960
Image ID IA01_211

7. Sailing barge CYGNET at Shell Bungalow, Peldon
Date: 23 May 2015
Image ID IA01_271

8. The Eastern National Bus Station in West Mersea High Street. Bristol Lodekka 75JNO on the right. Hines estate agents on the left.
Image ID IA01_381

9. L.J. Coles shop in High Street, known locally as Birdie's shop after Birdie Webb, wife of Len Coles. They sold confectionary, ices, stationery, fancy goods, ...
Image ID IA01_383

10. Dedication of West Mersea Village Sign by Revd. John Swallow outside the library.
Essex County Standard photograph.
Date: 23 October 1988
Image ID IA01_393

11. Dedication of West Mersea Village Sign - procession from the Parish Church. Yorick Road in the background. In robes L-R Jill Newham, David Seed, Tom Millatt and ...
Date: 23 October 1988
Image ID IA01_403

12. Members of the regular company take it easy on the deck of the yacht L'ESPERANCE which is lying on the Hard awaiting removal of her lead keel before being put ...
Date: c1918
Image ID IA01_441

13. Tanker SUHAIL laid up in River Blackwater. She was in the river 28 June 1960 to 17 December 1963 with a visit to London for dry docking 4-9 November 1962.
Date: 16 September 1962
Image ID IA01_471

14. The Museum's telephone box on the move, prior to repainting. Transport provided by Duncan Pittock.
Date: 19 January 2016
Image ID IA01_525

15. Motor barge ETHEL in Royal docks, London, late 1950s or early 1960s. Canadian Pacific cargoship BEAVERASH in the background, built 1958.
ETHEL 99453 built ...
Date: c1960
Image ID IA01_591

16. Identity and Service Certificate. William Charles Palmer.
Date: 20 September 1918
Image ID IA01_652_001

17. Identity and Service Certificate. William Charles Palmer.
Born 12 January 1866, Maldon.
Ship JESS O.N. 105907.
Date: 20 September 1918
Image ID IA01_652_002

18. Identity and Service Certificate. William Charles Palmer. Nationality Certificate.
Date: 20 September 1918
Image ID IA01_652_006

19. Identity and Service Certificate. William Charles Palmer.
Next of Kin Mrs Palmer (wife), 9 Gate Street, Maldon.
Date: 20 September 1918
Image ID IA01_652_008

20. Heybridge Basin. Hammond postcard.
Date: c1911
Image ID IA01_663

21. THE BOUNTY ex ALASTOR at Ramsgate. She was towed to Ramsgate in 1946 and left March 1951. Postcard 1044.
Date: c1948
Image ID IA01_671

22. Coast Road and the corner of Victory Road. The first house on the right is Cathay. Boomie barge BRITANNIC and Hempstead's shed in the distance. Postcard West ...
Date: 1911
Image ID IA01_675

23. Pathway and stakes below the beach near East Mersea Blockhouse Fort. The stakes have been appearing over the past 2 years as the mud has eroded. It is not yet ...
Date: 28 November 2017
Image ID IA01_691

24. Diocese of Edinburgh. Certificate of Confirmation for Hilda Stoker.
Prepared for Confirmation by Revd. A.C. Buchanan and Confirmed at St Mark's, ...
Date: 30 November 1919
Image ID IA01_693

25. Sewing machine that was left inside the Museum grounds September 2019 - donor unknown.
The machine is an Essex Miniature Sewing Machine manufactured by The ...
Date: 28 September 2019
Image ID IA01_694

26. Ive's Farm, Peldon. Hammond postcard.
View down what is now St Ives Hill, with Ive's Farm on the left.
Date: c1910
Image ID IA01_715

27. Top, Medallion found by Caroline Bird 24 February 2018. It was in a field north of East Road in East Mersea. The date on the coin is 1550.
Chris Wheeler ...
Date: 24 February 2018
Image ID IA01_741

28. Salcott Church - a Hammond postcard
Date: c1911
Image ID IA01_781

29. Salcott Church - a Hammond postcard
Date: c1911
Image ID IA01_783

30. Milk bottle from Brierley Hall Dairy, West Mersea, found on the mud at Mersea Hard by David Conway July 2018. The bottle has barnacles on its bottom and was ...
Date: 1 August 2018
Image ID IA01_801