31. Dick Woolf with The Legend behind him. Oysters 1/- per doz.
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32. GETTING READY FOR THE CARRIER
The shed was known as the Legend and could be floated to anywhere required on the Hard. 'Brassy' Mussett is seen with hands ...
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33. William Wyatt in City Road. The dog's name is Jip because he gave William jip by running away on the marshes when Bill was wildfowling (Harold Cutts).
Date: i
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34. Abberton Water Cart. Eddie Smith holding the horse. The cart was used to supply water to the village from the well under the bakery. Eddie Smith donated land at ...
Date: c1930
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35. Group of ladies that took part in the Elizabethan Mersea Court Scene at the Coronation Pageant in 1953. The ladies in the back row played the role of male ...
Date: 2 June 1953
Image ID RG03_365

36. The sailing barge P.A.M. unloading Kentish ragstone at Mersea Strood 1946/7. Two locals and two Ukrainians. Photo by Captain George Blake, master of ...
Date: c1946
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37. Sailing barge NELLIE PARKER at Mersea Strood. Bullnose Morris car.
Date: September 1927
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38. Bruce Cock, Arthur Cock. Badcocks Farm, Abberton
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39. Badcocks Farm and Lake, Abberton
Date: 1926
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40. Vine Cottage, The Lane, West Mersea.
It is thought the lady is Ellen Cooke née Ennew 1859 - 1904 and the photo taken c1903. The children could be ...
Date: c1903
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41. Inside the Strict Baptist Meeting House in Meeting Lane, East Mersea, demolished before WW2. Pulpit. End of the harmonium on the left.
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42. East Road and junction with Windsor Road, now Oakwood Avenue. Looking southwest. Photo from Jenny Amos.
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43. Peldon windmill was was on the main road almost opposite the Peldon Rose. The windmill had double shuttered anti-clockwise Patent sails driving three pairs of 4 ...
Date: Before 1900
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44. Smack PURITAN CK395, owned by Bentley's Oyster Bar, Picadilly, London.
L-R 'Chippy' Pullen, Don Pullen, 'Ru' Pullen (not the PEDRO one).
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45. Ghosts at Mersea Strood. Most of the tales of ghosts are of Roman Centurions crossing the Strood. Did they travel by Eastern National bus, or is this just a ...
Date: 1950s
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46. The Beach, West End, West Mersea. Postcard 135969. Taken at the Hard looking back up Coast Road with The Green on the left. The Legend tied up by Clarke & ...
Date: Before August 1935
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47. Back of postcard RG03_421, posted by Billy to Geoff Moore in London 10 August 1935.
Billy says "Am looking after S.S. THESEUS here for a bit. Hope to get ...
Date: 10 August 1935
Image ID RG03_422

48. Charles Pierrepont Edwards' Conservative Garden Part, Early 1920s
Photograph used in "Old Spiery" published by Mersea Museum, which gives names:
L-R ...
Date: c1922
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49. A Primrose Bus in 1920 parked in High Street near the entrance to Captains Road prior to leaving on a school trip to London Zoo. Headmaster Mr. Green with the ...
Date: 19 July 1920
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50. Ron Green, National Service. Ron had been able to delay his National Service so he could finish his apprenticeship with Clifford White. Ron spent most of his ...
Date: 1954
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51. Barge unloading ragstone at the Strood, Mersea Island, August 1937. Johnny Dixon ?
Much Kentish ragstone was brought by barge to Essex, for repairing sea ...
Date: August 1937
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52. Mersea Strood. Barge NELLIE PARKER in centre. Berrys' Gilford Model 1680T 31 seat Coach VX7875, purchased by Eastern National in 1937 Fleet No 3701.
NELLIE ...
Date: Before 1931
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53. Mersea Strood in the early 1930s. Barge NELLIE PARKER.
Date: c1930
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54. Primrose Bus No. 5. Bob Woodward and Alf Stacey.
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55. Primrose Bus to Mersea in St. Johns Street, Colchester before 1925. Fred Chatters second from the right.
Date: Before 1925
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56. Dennis lorry VW5608 at Goldhanger when owned by A. Tredget. Ex Clifford White & Co. Ex Horace Martin.
L-R Bob Deal, Sid Sherwood.
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57. West Mersea Fire Brigade with the wartime NFS fire engine in 1944. Photo taken the same time as ...
Date: 1944
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58. Mersea Island Primrose Straker Squire bus LH9097 at War Memorial, West Mersea. Used in "Just the Ticket" by David Thornton, Plate 20. Also used in Motor ...
Image ID RG03_485

59. Traction Engine. A regular visitor to West Mersea with the fair before the war. John Barker's Burrell No 3847 (CL4483) of 1920. 'Princess Marina' at Foxhall ...
Date: 11 April1933
Image ID RG03_487

60. Dabchicks first rescue boat during the 1962 Blackwater Barge Match.
L-R Franki Drinkall, Dad & Mum Drinkall, Bev Drinkall.
Laid up Shell tanker in ...
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