1. West Mersea Mill - Fred G. Smith. A wonderful photograph of the old and the new. Stanley Mole on the left holding the horse and Herbert Marrow far right with...
Date: c1930
Image ID ALS_C20_005

2. Frederick Herbert Smith and Herbert Marrow with Fred G. Smith delivery van. It is a Morris, registration BVW367. The door advertises Lyons Cakes. Phone Number...
Date: c1935
Image ID ALS_C20_019

3. A school trip from West Mersea to London Zoo, July 1920. Primrose Bus. Headmaster Mr Green is standing on the stairs wearing a black trilby. Note the...
Date: 19 July 1920
Image ID ALS_WHI_013

4. 1953 Fred Smith delivering bread!
Date: 1953
Image ID ATK_013

5. Berry Motor Omnibus Service bus HK908. Wells, 30 hp Dorman Engine, acquired November 1915.
Date: c1916
Image ID AWB_FLT_027

6. A.W. Berry. Charabanc HK7215. Dennis 40hp 29 seat charabanc, acquired March 1920.
Image ID AWB_FLT_033

7. Berry's Motor Omnibus Service. Colchester & District. Colchester 102.
Double decker LC7804.
Image ID AWB_FLT_045

8. AEC Regal HX4358 outside Berry's works in Colchester. HX4358 acquired June 1931. Park Royal body ex AEC demonstrator.
A.W. Berry were running horse drawn...
Date: cJune 1931
Image ID AWB_FLT_053

9. Brightlingsea, Essex. In the early morning sprats are unloaded from the smacks, in casks, rowed ashore and then conveyed by lorry to the markets. Norfolk's...
Date: After August 1934
Image ID BOXD_001_001_001

10. The Square and Church, Tollesbury. Postcard from Bell's No. 2067.
Osborne's Bedford Duple buses HG5343 and GVW591. HG 5343 was bought January 1940 and...
Date: 1950s
Image ID CG10_015

11. The Cycle Stores, Tollesbury.
Taken in 1914, when George Fisher the owner, sold perambulators, accessories, cycles, motorcycles and petrol, as well as...
Date: 1914
Image ID CG10_413

12. FASHODA, when the train first ran to Tollesbury. Postcard, not mailed.
The opening of the Tollesbury Railway - locomotive is FASHODA.
An Essex County...
Date: 23 May 1904
Image ID CG17_001

13. Waiting for the train at Tollesbury. Postcard by T. Hammond, Great Totham, not mailed.
Used in Tollesbury Past, photo 37.
Date: c1910
Image ID CG17_009

14. Tollesbury Pier Station. Postcard mailed 13 April 1905.
Date: October 1904
Image ID CG17_023

15. Station and waterworks, Tollesbury. Postcard by H.S. White, High Street, Tollesbury, not mailed.
The water tower was erected in 1914.
Date: After 1914
Image ID CG17_027

16. Railway - Looking towards the Pier, Tollesbury. Postcard 126388, not mailed.
Date: c1932
Image ID CG17_031

17. Station Road, Tollesbury. Dated as 1951 by D.J. Gurton, but the loco is LNER 7161. This J67 was renumber 8608 September 1946 and renumbered again to 68608...
Date: Before September 1946
Image ID CG17_047

18. The Square, Tollesbury. Osborne's bus waiting with a Witham service, JVX806, a Bedford with a Duple wartime utility body, including wooden slatted seats. JVX...
Date: 1950s
Image ID CG2_045

19. G.W. Osborne proudly sits in his new horse drawn carrier cart which had full length seats each side for potential passengers.
Caption from back of...
Date: Before 1919
Image ID CG3_025

20. Carnival procession in Barfield Road. The left lorry is Austin KNO204 - the board on the radiator is Mersea Island British Legion Branch. On the side it...
Date: c1950
Image ID CMW_VAR_005

21. West Mersea School, with one of Berry's buses going up Barfield Road.
Owen Fletcher wrote: "According to my mother, the gate to the left in the school...
Image ID CW3_015

22. Eastern National bus going through the water at the Strood, in the days when bus services were not curtailed by the tide. Ford Anglia Estate behind it ?
Date: 1958
Image ID DBO_013

23. Eastern National bus in the ditch near Bonners Barn. She had been blown over by the wind. XHK23... [Bristol VR fleet number 3127 XHK232X]
Date: 25 January 1990
Image ID DBO_111

24. Digby's 1926 Austin Chummy TW6307. It was used to deliver paraffin on the island for many years, and dropped out of use in the late 1940s. When Digby's closed...
Image ID DCR_001_001

25. Digby's 1926 Austin Chummy TW6307, restored by David O'Connor. The car returned to Mersea as a special guest for the 2015 Lions Transport Show on 8 August 2015.
Date: c2015
Image ID DCR_031

26. Margaret Penfold drove a milk delivery van in the Halstead area while in the Women's Land Army. Cream Line Dairy, Chelmsford.
Accession No. 2016-10-003F
Date: cSeptember 1943
Image ID DIS2008_WLA_121

27. This wonderful horseless carriage, owned we believe by Mr. Roy Littlehale is about to take Arthur Hempstead and his wife the former Isabella May Gardner to...
Date: 30 August 1909
Image ID DIS2009_MAR_009

28. The weekend snow storm soon claimed its victims. This bus missed the road at East Mersea and finished with a front wheel in a ditch.
Eastern National...
Date: 5 January 1962
Image ID DM1_AB5_043_001

29. Tollesbury Square - Women's Institute outing. Charabancs.
Date: 1924
Image ID DWS_161

30. Sunday school outing. Scholars of the Stanway Peculiar People's Sunday school on their outing to West Mersea in 1915. Photograph and letter from Mr & Mrs E....
Date: February 1965
Image ID EC65_02_235_001