1. Oyster laying for sale, House Propert, Smacks, auction E.J. Craske 23 Feb 1875.
Lot 1 Stone House
Smacks THE SARAH, THE BROTHERS, THE ...
Date: 23 February 1875
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2. Oyster Day - an article from The Illustrated London News.
"August 4 was, in metropolitan parlance, "Oyster Day", i.e. the day on which oysters are first ...
Date: 12 August 1843
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3. 2005 Oyster Dredging Match. Smack ELLEN CK222.
Photograph by Kim Kimberley.
Date: 11 September 2005
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4. 2005 Mersea Oyster Dredging Match off West Mersea beach. Smack ELLEN CK222.
Photograph by Kim Kimberley.
Date: 11 September 2005
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5. 2005 Oyster Dredging Match - weighing and prizegiving at the Packing Shed.
Richard Haward centre with the microphone. To the left of him Terry Sutton, ...
Date: 11 September 2005
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6. Ted Woolf oyster pits on Coast Road - just visible distant left is the laid up ship PHILOCTETES, which was in the Blackwater June 1946 to April 1948
Date: c1948
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7. Dredging oysters. Opening of the Oyster Fishery? Steam dredger 28CK PYEFLEET in the background
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8. Cleaning oysters in shed. Oyster baskets and other tools. Man on left has jersey saying WHITE HEATHER.
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9. Oyster dredger PYEFLEET CK28 and Police launch EDWARD VII. From Colchester and Essex Museums.
EDWARD VII was built Forrestt 1902 and converted to motor ...
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10. Colne Oyster Fishery - fishing gear. 1915.
Colchester and Essex Museum ?
Used in Essex Gold, page 14, which says "Some traditional tools of the ...
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11. The Colne Fishery Company had a steam dredger and inspection boat built in 1895. She is seen here with a party on board, probably for the opening of the ...
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12. Packing Marsh --- oyster pits. From Ena French.
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13. Packing Shed - from Ena French
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14. Packing Marsh Island --- oyster pits. From Ena French
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15. GRADING OYSTERS is always a cold job, but recently Mr Fred Pullen and Mr George Milgate at West Mersea had to clear ice away before they could lower the oyster ...
Date: 17 February 1956
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16. Unloading oysters on West Mersea. Baskets are marked with 'B' - Bentley's oysters.
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17. To Willoughby J. Bean, Esq., The Firs, Wests Mersea.
At a General Meeting of the Dredgermen of West Wersea, and their Friends of that parish, held in the ...
Date: c1895
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18. Tollesbury and Mersea Oyster Company men outside the Packing Shed circa 1908. Zeb Milgate (John Milgate's grandfather and Heather Haward's great grandfather) in ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1908
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19. Back of photo says Blackwater Oyster Fishery 28 Sept 1912. Envelope says "Opening of Colne Fishery smack and party."
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
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20. The oysterman George Stoker of West Mersea before the 'offoce' of the Stags Head Oyster Fishery Company. A wartime picture - there is barbed wire in the ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1943
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21. Culling oysters for size and quality. The flat basket on the left was called a tendal.
Used in Smacks and Bawleys, Page 116
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
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22. Paddle dredge PYEFLEET I in Colne. Photo by F Ruffell, Brightlingsea. This photograph is also in BOXB3_172_001 with a description of the scene.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
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23. Dredging up oysters in the River Colne. [DW]
The Colne Fishery Company smack NATIVE hauls alongside an oyster skiff to dump thousands of slipper limpets ...
Date: 1936
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24. Oyster dredging. Smacks at Brightlingsea going out for oysters. The oyster dredgerman in Pyefleet Creek, home of the Colchester Native. [DW]
William ...
Date: 1928
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25. Colne river police boats PRINCE OF WALES and ALEXANDRA stand upriver over the oyster beds they guarded. The Colne River Police were established in 1890 to take ...
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26. Blackwater Culch War of 1894 - press articles. Page 1. Oyster culture in Italy.
Date: March 1894
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27. Blackwater Culch War of 1894 - press articles. Page 2. Oyster culture in Italy.
Date: March 1894
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28. Blackwater Culch War of 1894 - press articles. Page 3. Burnham and Tollesbury Fishermen high-handed procedings. The Pirates of Tollesbury.
Date: March 1894
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29. Blackwater Culch War of 1894 - press articles. Page 4. The Blackwater Oyster Fishery. Removal of Culch from the Common Grounds. Important movement of which Mr ...
Date: April 1894
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30. Blackwater Culch War of 1894 - press articles. Page 5. Deputation from Tollesbury. Mentions Captain Carter, Mr George French, Mr Gilbert, W.Y. Smythies.
Date: April 1894
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