1. Ice around the houseboats in the hard winter 1962 - 1963. MEG MERRILIES and beyond her FATHOM ex DOROTHY, a former Admiralty ammunition barge. Date: cJanuary 1963 Image ID ABD_013 |
2. Hove Creek and houseboats. Image ID ATK_033 |
3. Houseboat on it side after a very high tide Date: 1980 Image ID BJ17_021 |
4. High tide on Coast Road Date: Before 1975 Image ID BJ17_023 |
5. High tide on Coast Road Date: Before 1975 Image ID BJ17_029 |
6. Houseboats after the 1953 flood. Date: cFebruary 1953 Image ID BJ17_031 |
7. SEAHORSE and other houseboats after the 1953 flood. Date: cFebruary 1953 Image ID BJ17_035 |
8. High Tide on Coast Road, West Mersea. Houseboats Image ID BJ57_015_001 |
9. Houseboat PEGGOTTY. Date: 1955 Image ID BJ57_017_001 |
10. High tide on Coast Road, West Mersea - date not known. Houseboat SEAHORSE. Image ID BJ58_004_007 |
11. Houseboats in the snow, West Mersea. SEAHORSE on the right.
SEAHORSE was built as a steam yacht in 1891 and came to West Mersea as a houseboat around 1936. She ... Date: c1960 Image ID BJ60_002_015 |
12. SCEPTRE --- an ex ship's lifeboat used for many years to service the ships laid up in the River Blackwater. Once maintained in immaculate condition, she is now ... Date: c2006 Image ID BJ80_065_201 |
13. Houseboats along the Coast Road at West Mersea. Produced by Cooks Pet and Garden Centre, West Mersea, photographer Andrew London. From a collection of ... Date: 2010s Image ID CPG_009 |
14. Fid Harnack's BEN GUNN in her mud berth at West Mersea. Date: November 1970 Image ID CT02_085 |
15. Houseboats. ERYCINA (left) and EVANDRA (Fifie) formerly WMYC headquarters. In 1910 EVANDRA is mentioned in Yachting World [BOX115_001] as providing ... Date: Before September 1913 Image ID CW5_093 |
16. Houseboats at West Mersea. Postcard mailed September 1909 from The Rest, W. Mersea.
"We have been living on the sea, only sleeping at house. The children ... Date: Before September 1909 Image ID CW6_031 |
17. Houseboats along Coast Road, West Mersea. COLUMBINE and HISPANIA in centre.
Ektachrome slide 19 Image ID CW8_013 |
18. Houseboat in a creek - Fen Farm East Mersea. Early tents in the distance just to the right of it.
The houseboat was owned by a retired ballet teacher and ... Date: c1930 Image ID DBO_003 |
19. The Strood. Barge VICTA, looking somewhat derelict.
VICTA built 1874, Official No. 67085, formerly & CO. Image ID DBO_017 |
20. HISPANIA leaving Mersea for restoration. Tug HOFLAND. Date: 1997 Image ID DEP_HIS_035 |
21. High Tide by Hove Creek. Houseboat DOLPHIN - originally an RNLI self-righting lifeboat.
A photograph from Jill McDonough shown at the Mersea Island ... Date: c2022 Image ID DIS2022_MPS_001 |
22. Houseboats from Coast Road. The MARY MILLER prominent in left background, was built Carrickfergus in 1881, Official Number 83974. She was owned in 1892 by John ... Image ID FL12_009_001 |
23. Houseboat Fire. The houseboat ERYCINA at present occupied by Mrs Garrioch and her sister Mrs Goddard, was extensively damaged by fire on Monday afternoon. The ... Date: 27 October 1941 Image ID FL14_013_009 |
24. MEG MERRILIES houseboat. An early photograph before any deckhouses were added. Date: 1930 Image ID GRS_OPA_001 |
25. MEG MERRILEES. Sue's Mum 1930 [Mrs Sprake] Date: 1930 Image ID GRS_OPA_003 |
26. Houseboat MEG MERRILEES 1931 Date: 1931 Image ID GRS_OPA_013 |
27. MEG MERRILEES 1931 Freda Date: 1931 Image ID GRS_OPA_015 |
28. Houseboat NANCY LEE. Sue's Mum [Mrs Sprake] houseboats at bottom of Hove Hill. Image ID GRS_OPA_025 |
29. Houseboat SEAHORSE after the 1953 Floods. Date: cFebruary 1953 Image ID HAD01_016 |
30. ERYCINA houseboat, Coast Road, West Mersea Image ID HBD_023 |