1. BOD on left. PEDRO II near centre.
Date: c1950
Image ID AN03_023_003

2. Barges ARDEER, PRETORIA, MILLIE during a Blackwater Match c1963
From: Barges
Date: c1963
Image ID BF68_001_129_020

3. SNOWDROP leading CHARLOTTE and MERLIN in a race for converted smack yachts at West Mersea. They are seen at the start, passing the Nass Beacon. Douglas Went...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1937
Image ID BOXB3_114_001_001

4. Ships on the River Blackwater - postcar 122867A, unposted.
Date: 1930s
Image ID CG14_001

5. Off Tollesbury Pier. Postcard 126365.
Date: 1930s
Image ID CG14_003

6. Off Tollesbury Pier. Postcard 126362, not posted.
Nelson Line vessel laid up in the River Blackwater. The vessel thought to be either MURILLO, MOLIERE or...
Date: Before November 1932
Image ID CG14_005

7. River Blackwater, Tollesbury. Postcard mailed 15 September 1931
Second ship from the left is LONDON MERCHANT.
Date: Before September 1931
Image ID CG14_007

8. Ships in the River Blackwater. Postcard 122851.
Third ship from left with grey hull is the HIGHLAND WARRIOR.
Date: 1930s
Image ID CG14_009

9. Tollesbury River Blackwater. Postcard, not mailed.
Date: 1930s
Image ID CG14_013

10. River Blackwater Tollesbury. Postcard not mailed.
L to R ?, ?, CITY OF GUILDFORD, BENGUELA, HIGHLAND ROVER.
Date: 1930s
Image ID CG14_015

11. Tollesbury Essex. Postcard not mailed.
Date: 1930s
Image ID CG14_017

12. Off Tollesbury Pier. Postcard 126366, not mailed.
Six vessels visible, thought to be L-R 1 to 3 not known, 4. VOLTAIRE, 5. PAKEHA, 6. HIGHLAND ROVER (left...
Date: Before October 1932
Image ID CG14_019

13. Tollesbury Essex. Postcard not mailed.
The ship in the centre is LONDON CITIZEN. Behind it are two Furness Withy ships - perhaps LONDON MERCHANT, IMPERIAL...
Date: 1935
Image ID CG14_021

14. Off Tollesbury. Postcard 126374 not mailed.
The vessel on the left is HIGHLAND ROVER - one of a class of 10 built for Nelson Line 1910-11. They were...
Date: Before 20 October 1932
Image ID CG14_023

15. Tollesbury. A pre-war view with ships laid up in the river. Postcard 96172.
Date: Before 1939
Image ID CG4_009

16. Laid up shipping and an icy River Blackwater, taken from Bradwell in the icy winter of 1962-1963.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID IA003440

17. Wymarks Beach, Bradwell on Sea. Postcard franked 13 July 1965.
Baffle Wall for the power station is being built. From L to R the ships are probably MALDEN...
Date: c1959
Image ID IC010030

18. Bradwell Power Station under construction. Steamer PUNTARENAS is to the left of the crane.
Date: c1958
Image ID IC090008

19. Jack Botham aerial photograph 600. Laid up ships in River Blackwater with Bradwell Power Station under construction beyond. The tanker in the foreground is...
Date: c1960
Image ID JBA_905

20. Smacks racing in the Blackwater --- a sight still regularly seen.
Image ID LH1_042

21. Smacks on the Blackwater. CK44 MAYFLOWER on the left. Bradwell Power Station beyond.
Image ID LH1_045

22. River Blackwater from source to sea. Northey Island and the remains of the barge MISTLEY, Official No. 91336, built J. & H. Cann, Harwich, 1891.
Date: cSeptember 1987
Image ID LH43_024_007

23. The road to Osea Island.
Date: Before 1984
Image ID MMC_P1005_010

24. Osea Island - pier and the big house on the right.
Image ID PA1_WAD_PIC38B

25. "Animals near marshes". A 1950s slide taken by Mary Sime.
Date: c1957
Image ID PBIB_SIM3_020

26. Corn stooks beside the River Blackwater. A slide taken by Mary Sime.
Date: c1957
Image ID PBIB_SIM6_007

27. Swimmie or swim-head barge unloading manure at The Shoe, Goldhanger. Postcard 63876 posted 1912.
Photograph used in one of the Slideshows shown in Mersea...
Date: Before 1912
Image ID RG06_117

28. Unloading manure from barge THE WORLD - believed to be at Maylandsea. Postmarked 15 June 1920.

Ron wrote the following article for Maldon & Heybridge...
Date: Before June 1920
Image ID RG07_025

29. Timber barges off Heybridge Basin.
Image ID RG17_205

30. Mersea Quarters. Chum Hewes is thought to be aboard the interesting - looking boat. Why is it flying a Port line houseflag ?
Date: 1932
Image ID RG25_417