1. Hartley Oliver Brown 1898 - 1971

Hartley Brown joined the Mercantile Marine Reserve and served on HMS GAZELLE. Before the war HMS GAZELLE was a ...
Date: 1917
Image ID ABR_WW1_011

2. West Mersea Football Team. Tiddler Mole and Bernard (Nig) French - coaches.
Back row L-R 1. Tiddler Mole, 2. Sid Vince, 3. Joe Hewes, 4. a soldier, 5. ...
Date: 1934
Image ID ACN_009

3. Alison Bush 14 October 1926 - 18 November 2015.
Memorial Friends' Meeting House, Colchester, 17 December 2015
Burial Feldy View, Firs Road, West ...
Date: 17 December 2015
Image ID AMB_MEM_001

4. Alison Bush Order of Services, pages 2 and 3.
Alison Mary Pickard was born 14 October 1926...
Date: 17 December 2015
Image ID AMB_MEM_002

5. Alison Bush Order of Services. Page 4.
Date: 17 December 2015
Image ID AMB_MEM_004

6. Eileen - a Land Army girl from Stratford, East London, who lodged with Cath and Gordon Mussett on Mersea during WW2.
Date: May 1944
Image ID AN02_018_003

7. West Mersea Cricket Club in 1910:
Back Row: 1. Tom Mussett, 2. Bill Mussett, 3. Yorrick Mussett, 4. Becky (Manassa) D'Witt.
Middle Row: 1. Roy ...
Date: 1910
Image ID AN03_006_001

8. Mersea Cricket Team in the early 1900s at The Glebe. Note that five members are wearing ship or yacht jersey.
Date: 1900s
Image ID AN03_006_003

9. West Mersea Cricket Club
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10. "Uncle Bill Carrington". Ann Ward says that when she was a young girl, she and her parents used to enjoy musical evenings with Uncle Bill and the Sheltons.
Date: 1933
Image ID AN03_026_001

11. Tennis - Joan Pullen
Image ID AN07_095

12. "Wont! No Cows!"
Womens Land Army. Joyce from London, Joan Pullen.
Date: 1945
Image ID AN08_041

13. Pullen Family pictures, and also on the wall at the Pavilion at the Glebe on the wall at the Tennis Pavilion at the Glebe, which gives us some of the ...
Date: May 1944
Image ID AN11_011

14. West Mersea Foresters
Court "Sailors' Home," No. 5105, AOF
Holders of the Colchester District Challenge Shield, 1931, 1934 and 1935, for the highest ...
Date: 25 April 1936
Image ID AOF_003

15. Fleet View Stores, Coast Road.
Alf Parrish left
Image ID ATK_021

16. Outside Fleet View Stores. L-R Janice Tucker, Alf Parish, Mrs Howland
Image ID ATK_025

17. John Tucker (Alan's brothers) and Michael Ralph, by the old boating lake.
Date: 1956
Image ID ATK_037

18. Janice Parrish - Alan Tucker's wife. Mid 1950s. Beach huts and Spinney Cafe behind.
Date: 1950s
Image ID ATK_039

19. Janice Parrish and Patricia Catchpole on the beach near the Spinney Cafe.
Date: 1950s
Image ID ATK_041

20. Hardy's Green Rovers football team.
"Keith Taylor is holding the ball in this photo. He owned the Tollesbury dairy and delivered milk to the village ...
Date: 1930
Image ID ATR_HDY_001

21. George and William Sheldrick are in this photo but not sure who's who. The name on left jumper is TITANIA RAYC. Postmark is Wivenhoe, April 12, 1907
Date: Before April 1907
Image ID ATR_SLD_001

22. Tollesbury fisherman Harry Myall at the tiller of family smack S.W.H., named for Sidney, William and Harry Myall - taken early 1900s.
Used in Smacks and ...
Date: 1924
Image ID ATR_SWH_003

23. Tollesbury fisherman Harry Myall on the left - Person at the tiller not known. Smack S.W.H. 492CK
Date: 1924
Image ID ATR_SWH_005

24. Tollesbury Men.
L-R 1. Stan Lewis, 2. Bill Howe, 3. C. Lewis, 4. Fred Binks, 5. Bobby Leavett (Bruin's father), 6. L. Trim (Alison's grandfather).
Image ID ATR_TRM_121

25. 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
Image ID AW02_001_126

26. 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
Image ID AW02_003

27. Horseman's Sunday at Patricia Catchpole stables on East Road. Rev. East officiated.
L-R Gordon Allen, Charlie Buckingham, Norma Appleby, Ann Knight, Angela ...
Date: c1960
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28. At Patricia Catchpole's Stables in East Road, c1958
Back Suzanne Taylor, Eval Tovim, Mike Spurgeon
Middle row Catchy, Sarah Vince now Cock, Wendy ...
Date: c1958
Image ID AWA_003

29. On the field behind Empress Avenue - Patricia Catchpole's Riding School.
L-R Gordon Allen's father, Rosemary Allen with Gordon behind. Nell the dog. Norma ...
Date: c1961
Image ID AWA_005

30. Wife of Reverend East, Nan Peacefull (Gladys but NEVER known as anything but Nan), Patricia Catchpole (Catchy) in a rare photo indeed of her not wearing ...
Image ID AWA_007