871. Part of the present [1967] wire-scape at West Mersea, the arrival of which in 1889 was recorded in this anonymous diary.
From an article in Essex County ...
Date: 28 April 1967
Image ID ECS_1967_APR28_024_001
Added 2022-11-18 09:58:24

872. Unknown wedding at West Mersea Parish Church. The groom is in Army or RAF uniform.
Image ID NHY_023
Added 2022-11-08 14:58:34

873. Unknown wedding. Probably Hempstead or Cole family
Image ID NHY_021
Added 2022-11-08 14:57:36

874. Unknown wedding. Probably Hempstead or Cole family
Image ID NHY_019
Added 2022-11-08 14:56:32

875. Unknown. Probably Hempstead or Cole family
Image ID NHY_017
Added 2022-11-08 14:55:25

876. Unknown wedding. Probably Hempstead or Cole family
Image ID NHY_015
Added 2022-11-08 14:54:00

877. Ladies, old to very young. Probably Hempstead or Cole family members are amongst them.
Image ID NHY_013
Added 2022-11-08 14:52:25

878. Beach Huts, Willoughby Avenue, West Mersea. A pre-war postcard. Refreshment hut - is this where there was a searchlight during WW2?
Date: 1930s
Image ID IA04_191
Added 2022-11-03 13:45:11

879. A mystery photograph from the Cole, Reynolds or Ponder family.
Image ID NHY_011
Added 2022-11-02 07:00:47

880. Arthur Harvey, Maud Cole & Elsie Ponder at the wedding of Daphne Green and Fred Harvey at West Mersea Methodist Church.
Arthur Harvey and Maud Cole had ...
Image ID NHY_005
Added 2022-11-01 20:45:39

881. Wedding of Bertie Reynolds and Eileen Hutt at West Mersea Parish Church
Bertie Thomas Reynolds was born 4 Dec 1909, son of William Reynolds.
Eileen ...
Date: 3 September 1938
Image ID NHY_003
Added 2022-11-01 20:44:01

882. Wedding of Elsie Reynolds and Robert Coppin.
Robert was killed in a road accident while in the RAF, 21 October 1941. They had a son Michael born October ...
Date: 25 December 1937
Image ID NHY_001
Added 2022-11-01 20:38:27

883. Abandoned sea wall between Mersea Youth Camp and Coopers Beach. View looking east from boating lake. The wall was not repaired after the December 2013 tidal ...
Date: 27 October 2022
Image ID IC09_323
Added 2022-10-30 11:50:02

884. Abandoned sea wall between Coopers Beach and Mersea Outdoors. View looking west from Coopers Beach. It was not repaired after the December 2013 tidal surge.
Date: 27 October 2022
Image ID IC09_321
Added 2022-10-30 11:45:29

885. John Blott at wheel of ALPHA. She was owned by him 1924 - 1938.
Image ID JBL_005
Added 2022-10-30 11:16:24

886. John Blott's yacht ALPHA in the 1920s. She was 80 feet LOA and built by Ceuvels SB in Amsterdam in 1918. John Blott owned her till 1938. She was captained by ...
Date: 1920s
Image ID JBL_003
Added 2022-10-30 11:14:04

887. Virley Church, sketched by Mr Joseph Sim Earle of London, 3 May 1881.

From "Baring-Gould and Mehalah", an article by E. Farrer in East Anglian Daily ...
Date: 3 May 1881
Image ID EADT_1924_JAN_004
Added 2022-10-27 16:22:14

888. "Red Hall" as it was in 1883, sketched by Mr Joseph Sim Earle of London, 13 April 1883.

From "Baring-Gould and Mehalah", an article by E. Farrer in ...
Date: 13 April 1883
Image ID EADT_1924_JAN_003
Added 2022-10-27 16:17:47

889. St John's Ambulance Brigade
Back L-R 1. Irene Gant, 2. Ruth Cornelius, 3. Betty Brooks, 4. Mrs Page, 5. Mrs Freddie (Nancy) French, 6. Margery ...
Date: 1952
Image ID LTG_STJ_003
Added 2022-10-17 07:55:55

890. St John's Ambulance Brigade
Back row L-R 1. Irene Gant, 2. Alfie Boon Officer in Charge men's division, 3. Charlie Jay, 4. Ruth Cornelius, 5. Betty Brooks, ...
Date: 1952
Image ID LTG_STJ_001
Added 2022-10-17 07:54:51

891. Margery Taylor Gibb 1904 - 1983.
Daughter of Margaret and Lewis Taylor Gibb. She worked in a London Bank for a few years before moving to West Mersea to ...
Date: January 1979
Image ID LTG_031
Added 2022-10-17 07:24:28

892. Lewis Taylor Gibb and family outside Holmcroft, West Mersea.
Image ID LTG_AB3_205
Added 2022-10-16 18:33:33

893. Margaret Annie née Robinson 1876 - 1930.
Daughter of Joshua Robinson 1837 - 1903, and wife of Lewis Taylor Gibb.
Image ID LTG_AB3_167
Added 2022-10-16 18:19:19

894. Lewis Taylor Gibb. 1873 - 1945
Draper & Artist
Lived in Kensington and at Holmcroft, Grove Avenue, West Mersea

The Robinson family and the ...
Image ID LTG_AB3_163
Added 2022-10-16 18:17:11

895. Walter Aldridge, Margaret Gibb, Dorothy Aldridge, Sam Carter, Gwyneth Aldridge, Alice Aldridge, Lewis Gibb.
Sam Carter has a L'ESPERANCE ...
Date: c1922
Image ID LTG_AB3_043
Added 2022-10-16 16:11:42

896. Lewis Taylor Gibb family outing on CK415 WATERWITCH.
WATERWITCH was owned by the Carter family and would be hired by Walter Aldridge, related to Lewis ...
Date: c1922
Image ID LTG_AB3_041
Added 2022-10-16 16:09:58

897. Aldridges at 'The Holt', West Mersea. Early 1920s.
Walter Aldridge was related to Lewis Gibb's wife, and would come to Mersea with his family for the ...
Date: c1922
Image ID LTG_AB3_025
Added 2022-10-16 10:47:39

898. Plaques in memory of Ralph and Susan Luckham at Mersea Museum

Upper
In Memory of Ralph Luckhamd 1920 to 1990 and Susan Luckham 1922 to ...
Date: 6 October 2022
Image ID LUC_PLQ_001
Added 2022-10-12 08:51:55

899. Claydon, Mersea Road, Peldon. On the left is the bungalow, Claydon, built at the end of the 1950's showing some of the remaining Barnard's Cottages beyond. ...
Image ID PH01_RID_005
Added 2022-10-11 06:16:59

900. 1 and 2 Barnards Cottages Peldon on the left. The bungalow Claydon on the right, which replaced 3 and 4 Barnards Cottages. Late 1950s.
Nos 1 and 2 ...
Date: c1958
Image ID PH01_RID_003
Added 2022-10-10 21:18:30