
1. Queenie Crozier, possibly at Orleans, West Mersea. Ida Eleanor Drane was Queenie's aunt and was housekeeper at Orleans c1930.
Photograph taken at the home ... Date: c1930 Image ID KBC_001 |

2. On the terrace of Orleans, West Mersea
L-R Ida Drane, Grandmother Susan Drane, Olive Drane, Queenie Crozier and Great Grandfather Alfred Drane.
Ida ... Date: c1931 Image ID KBC_003 |

3. Not identified, but possibly the car of Mr Hoblyn who lived at Orleans, West Mersea 1921 - 1931.
F2860 ? Date: c1930 Image ID KBC_005 |

4. A boatman - not known but possibly connected with Orleans West Mersea. SURF R.N.N.C. on his Jersey Date: c1930 Image ID KBC_007 |

5. Coopers Beach 1946-47
A negative from Bill Smith Date: c1947 Image ID KBC_011 |

6. Coopers Beach, East Mersea.
A negative from Bill Smith Date: c1947 Image ID KBC_013 |

7. Coopers Beach, East Mersea, before the sea wall was built. The pillbox is toppling down onto the beach.
A negative from Bill Smith Date: c1947 Image ID KBC_015 |

8. Coopers Beach, East Mersea
A negative from Bill Smith Date: c1947 Image ID KBC_017 |

9. Sitting on the seawall.
A negative from Bill Smith Date: c1947 Image ID KBC_019 |

10. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. The chalet has the name "Spray Cabin".
Ford Zephyr 258PNO - PNO registrations were first issued April ... Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_021 |

11. 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 ... Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_023 |

12. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_025 |

13. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea - the kitchen with Belling electric cooker.
Photograph by Bill Smith. Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_027 |

14. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_029 |

15. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_031 |

16. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. Photograph by Bill Smith. Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_033 |

17. 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 ... Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_035 |

18. 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 Image ID KBC_037 |

19. 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 ... Date: After April 1949 Image ID KBC_051 |

20. 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 ... Date: After April 1949 Image ID KBC_053 |

21. Cars and buses crossing the Strood at High Tide.
BHV971
Morris Minor OPU120 - OPU registrations were first used April 1949.
A negative from Bill ... Date: After April 1949 Image ID KBC_055 |

22. Waiting for the tide at the Strood. Cars at the mainland end.
AXV445, HLF549
A negative from Bill Smith Date: After April 1949 Image ID KBC_057 |

23. 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 Image ID KBC_061 |

24. BADGER laying off Tollesbury Pier. Formerly the yacht WESTWARD. Date: 1945 Image ID KBC_TOL_001 |

25. Oyster dredgers and laid up ships in the River Blackwater off Tollesbury. The vessel on the right with engines aft is thought to be the BERWINDLEA which was ... Date: c1933 Image ID KBC_TOL_003 |

26. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Tollesbury
Mr Hasler, now an American Banker, an advisor to J.F. Kennedy, and a Tollesbury Benefactor, is mounted on a horse ... Date: 1897 Image ID KBC_TOL_021 |

27. Gooseberry Pies
A feature of village life which became connected to the annual Fair during the last weekend of June, were the Gooseberry Pies. They were ... Date: c1920 Image ID KBC_TOL_023 |

28. Sailors in search of a pie dish.
Tollesbury's giant 100 year old Sunderland ware gooseberry pie dish has cracked through age - and all efford to replace it ... Image ID KBC_TOL_025 |

29. This group of yachting and fishing veterans of Tollesbury include three Uncles (Marked A, B, and C) or Capt. Ned Heard. They carried on in the place of the ... Date: c1916 Image ID KBC_TOL_031 |

30. Osborne's first motor bus, Tollesbury. Pictured outside Maskell's blacksmith's shop in North Road. Richard Maskell adapted the body of a London horse-bus and ... Date: 1918 Image ID KBC_TOL_041 |