1. Oyster laying for sale, House Propert, Smacks, auction E.J. Craske 23 Feb 1875.
Lot 1 Stone House
Smacks THE SARAH, THE BROTHERS, THE...
Date: 23 February 1875
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2. Top Chapel in Mill Road, West Mersea. The building on the left at the end of the drive was a very early school on the island. The Congregational Church is now...
Date: Before May 1905
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3. The mill in Mill Road, West Mersea.
Date: 1904
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4. The rear of 22 Victory Road, West Mersea. Home of Joan, Norman and Ann Ward. They had bought the land from Mrs de Manby - enough to build numbers 22 and 26....
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5. Emily Pullen outside "Beeches", now 26 Victory Road. Number 22 next door, where the Ward family eventually lived, is yet to be built.
Date: 1962
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6. Summer House at the back of 26 Victory Road. Ann Ward
Date: August 1964
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7. Anthea Harding sitting on the wall at her grandparent's house - 'Strood Close' on the Peldon side of the Strood. This wall came down in the 1953 flood.
Date: Before February 1953
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8. Gwendoline and Edward Harding outside their home - Strood Close, The Strood, Peldon. They named the house Strood Close. They had bought the house from...
Date: 1950s
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9. Aerial view of part of East Road, West Mersea, looking northeast. Brierley Hall is lower centre. On the left is Mondamin, with Patricia Catchpole's stables next...
Date: c1958
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10. Patricia Catchpole's stables on East Road.
Anne Watson says "The second building was put up in 58, we called it "Buckingham Palace" it was an old prefab...
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11. Patricia Catchpole at Hall Barn Riding Stables.
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12. Orleans House, West Mersea, now demolished. From Essex in Literature, Essex County Standard 6 May 1960.
Date: Before 6 May 1960
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13. The Croft, Melrose Road, West Mersea. Home of Clifford White and Family.
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14. Riverside House, West Mersea. Later 118 Coast Road.
The lady on left is Martha Stoker, the girl standing is Grace Stoker [Andy Brown]
[ In 1911...
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15. Surviving earthworks of the East Mersea Blockhouse Fort. Taken from the seawall looking south.
Date: 2011
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16. The Blockhouse Fort at East Mersea.
Drawing: Cudmore Grove Country Park / Essex County Council.
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17. From a Paper on Mersea Island read by Dr Philip Laver at AGM of Essex Archaeological Society.
Foundation of Roman Building at West Mersea. [known as the...
Date: 26 April 1923
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18. Former Post Office, High Street opposite Yorick Road. Toby Greenleaf.
From Dixon family photographs.
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19. Cottages in The Lane, West Mersea. The cottages at the right hand end had once been the Ship public house. The cottages were demolished and the City Hall built...
Date: 1920s
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20.
Outside West Mersea Parish Church, taken Summer 1947.
Back L-R 1. Frank Eley, 2., 3., 4., 5., 6. Eileen Brown, 7., 8. Frank Pullen, 9. Dorothy Brown,...
Date: cAugust 1947
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21. Riverside House, Coast Road
Stoker / Brown family pictures - Album 7
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22. Riverside, Coast Road. William Stoker, Vera Kate Stoker.
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23. Digby's Shop being demolished.
Date: 1985
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24. Brierley Paddocks development - conversion of the barn behind Brierley Hall started.
Date: c30 September 2001
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25. Home Farm, East Mersea. The farmhouse was demolished in the 1950s, roof tiles from the house were re-used on the present bungalow. Postcard 101902.
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26. Once a strongpoint in West Mersea's defences against the Nazi invasion, this blockhouse is now a happy rendezvous for holidaymakers and local folk in search of...
Date: 14 October 1949
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27. Company buys Mersea House for £10,000.
Orleans, Cost Road, West Mersea, one of the largest residences on Mersea Island, was sold at a public auction...
Date: c1959
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28. Brierley Hall on East Road, West Mersea, formerly Leakey's Hall. The ladies are waiting in their carriage outside the front door.
From The Fair Haven...
Date: 1900s
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29. Orleans - the residence of Mr Willoughby Bean. Photo by B. Charles.
Fair Haven Temperance Resort brochure. Page 5.
Date: 1900s
Image ID FAV_007_001

30. Barrow Hill, Residence of Mr C. Brown.
Fair Haven Temperance Resort brochure. Page 11.
Date: 1900s
Image ID FAV_013_001