1. Bluebird Motor Coach Garage at Tiptree.
L-R are VW6031, VW6085 and VW3507 with Felixstowe destination board. The garage still is still trading, but ...
Date: c1930
Image ID ABR_BMC_001

2. Bluebird Motor Coaches from Tiptree - a Guy half cab single deck. Victor Brown on the left.
Image ID ABR_BMC_003

3. Browns Bus Service coach, destination Colchester. VW2545.It is a Chevrolet 20 seater, first registered 4 April 1928 to Albert Victor Brown, Station Road, ...
Image ID ABR_BMC_005

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 1953 Fred Smith delivering bread!
Date: 1953
Image ID ATK_013

8. A.W. Berry.
In 1888 Arthur Berry was running a horse-drawn bus to Mersea island. He started the first motor bus service to the island in 1903.
Image ID AWB_003

9. Steam lorry built by A.W. Berry for Colchester Brewing Company. Registration F536. Built 1902-03 [ Modern Transport, 27 February 1937 ]
Date: c1903
Image ID AWB_FLT_001

10. Some of Berry's fleet. Bus F9245, lorry LN3317 (with A.W. Berry to its right ?), CD710, A6653 and F..453.
Image ID AWB_FLT_021

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

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

13. A.W. Berry Works Outing.
Notes from Brenda Stacey: AWB far left, Stan far right, Herb driving. The man behind Herb is his father-in-law, Edward May. He ...
Date: cJuly 1922
Image ID AWB_FLT_041

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

15. A new AEC bus. No registration plates. Photograph is in Berry Family papers so probably the bus was to join their fleet.
Image ID AWB_FLT_051

16. 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

17. Din Hoy on right, Sid Mole. Fred Smith's bakers cart outside Munson Cook's late 1920s
Date: c1929
Image ID BJ02_047

18. Berry's bus rounding Queens Corner.
Used in "A boyhood in Mersea" by Archie Smith, available in the Museum Shop.
Image ID BJ09_013

19. Arch over High Street by Barfield Road. Griffon Garage beyond.
Date: cMay 1937
Image ID BJ20_005

20. Oscar Whiting at St Botolph's Station, Colchester. Clifford White & Co., West Mersea Austin lorry KNO204.
Image ID BJ35_014_003

21. Mail Cart outside the old Victory. Soldier in background. Taken by Mr Capes.
Date: Before 1906
Image ID BJ35_024_001

22. Mersea Fuel Service. J.W. Whiting. Lorries line up in High Street North - Holly Lodge and Mersea Fuel Service office in the background.
L-R Thames 5909NO, ...
Date: After 1958
Image ID BJ35_025_003

23. Mersea Fuel Service. J.W. Whiting. Lorries line up in High Street North.
L-R Thames 5909NO, Thames PVE854, Dodge XVW572 ?, Bedford TVW802.
Date: After 1958
Image ID BJ35_025_005

24. Horace Martin Builder & Contractor, West Mersea. The lorry is left hand drive, registration NO3098. NO.... registrations were issued in Essex ...
Image ID BJ35_025_007

25. Brighlingsea Station. J15 65432 - withdrawn March 1958. Postcard by Photomatic.
Image ID BJ41_008_001

26. L. Thorp West Mersea bus in Colchester.
In the background are Babyland, Achille Serre Ltd Cleaners & Dyers, The Castle Garages Colchester Ltd - on the ...
Date: 1930s
Image ID BJ48_012_001

27. Thorp's Reliance Bus Service, West Mersea. Time Table commencing 1 June 1932.
Phone 48.
Date: June 1931
Image ID BJ48_012_031

28. Thorp's Reliance Bus Service
West Mersea to Colchester
Great Wigborough and peldon to Colchester
Date: June 1932
Image ID BJ48_012_032

29. Thorp's Reliance Coaches, West Mersea, Essex. Time Table. Phone 100.
Great Wigborough Kings Head and Peldon to Colchester Parking Place.
Date: December 1932
Image ID BJ48_012_041

30. Thorp's Reliance Time Table
West Mersea - Colchester Route
Date: December 1932
Image ID BJ48_012_042