91. Chum on rhs and Fritchy trawling.
Image ID HAY_CHUM_140

92. Edgar Heard hooking in the rain? PENDITA ?
Image ID HEA_OPA_013

93. Edgar Heard on ROSENA dredging for whiteweed.
Date: c1950
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94. Edgar Heard ROSENA dredging for whiteweed. For a while there were two or three ladies working in a hut in Cock's builder's yard processing the white weed, which ...
Date: c1950
Image ID HEA_OPA_023

95. Edgar Heard on ROSINA dredging for white weed.
Image ID HEA_OPA_051

96. A monster Mersea lobster, weighing 12 lbs. 2 ozs., has provided a dainty dish for a well-known Colchester gentleman (the purchaser) and his friends. The catch ...
Image ID HEP_OPA_041

97. On the Water, by J.M. Ellis. West Mersea fishermen and their families in WW2. Page 1.
A study of the experiences and consequences of the Second World War ...
Date: November 1999
Image ID JME_002

98. Graham & Hoss 1990s 'JBJ'
Image ID JNY_OPA_007

99. Eel shear which belonged to Eric 'Chicks' Milgate's grandfather. Since it dropped out of use, it has spent periods on the wall at the Peldon Rose and then at ...
Date: 17 September 2021
Image ID JP01_006

100. Bobby Stoker trawling in DAWN CK120 in the River. Photo by John Rowley.
Laid up Trinity House boat WINSTON CHURCHILL in the background.
Date: 1991
Image ID JRO_STK_001

101. Cockling at Leigh on Sea NAVIGATOR LO428. The cockles are brought ashore in baskets, carried on a wooden yoke.
Image ID LC1_AB3_PIC10

102. LO159 THEODORE Leigh on Sea
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103. Running 'fore the gale. Herring coble. Sketch by John Leather
Date: 1949
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104. Landing herrings by coble. Sketch by John Leather.
Date: 1949
Image ID LC1_THM_SKT_PIC16

105. Oyster dredging - Ernie Mole in foreground ?
Image ID LTL_113

106. Ernie 'Pud' Mole, Bunny Cook, Harry Daw.
Image ID LTL_139

107. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. 2007 Page 11,
Fishing Today by John Jowers.
Date: March 2007
Image ID MIS_2007_013

108. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society 2019 Page 33
MY LIFE by David Stoker

For a transcription, see ...
Date: 2019
Image ID MIS_2019_035

109. CK134 DIANA.
Date: 9 June 2007
Image ID MLD_023

110. Ron Green's Great Grandfather Abraham 'Ham' Green 1838-1910. He fished off the beach - for eels on this occasion, as he is carrying eel shears.
Image ID MMC_L197_005

111. Hove Creek - smacksmen are setting their trawls on the marsh beside the creek, with Jim Cook senior (in white) sitting on beam. Half a dozen smacks can be seen ...
Date: c1904
Image ID MMC_P755_017

112. Walter Mark 'Navvy' Mussett 1936-8 on MY ALICE. Photo by Lennox Leavett.
Date: c1937
Image ID PBIB_NAV_022

113. Fishing in the River. The laid up ships in the background are FLAMAR PRIDE and FLAMAR PROGRESS, which were in the River in 1981. The fishing boat and men are ...
Date: cOctober 1981
Image ID PBIB_SHP_077

114. Bobby Leavett's smack BERTHA whilst shrimping. Bobby on left of photo and his son Derek on the right. Note the steam coming from the copper in the ...
Image ID PBIB_SMA_011

115. Smack CK492 S.W.H. with stowboating gear. Date not know, but thought to be post war.
S.W.H. stands for Sid, Will and Harry Myall and was skippered by Len ...
Image ID PBIB_SWH_001

116. Support for sprat venture at West Mersea.
Mr Harold Durrant of East Anglian Curers Ltd and a colleague Mr John Whiting had purchased the 22 acre Haycocks ...
Date: 5 November 1965
Image ID PMS_SB01_025

117. Sprat fishing on board CLUARAN. Peter French in the wheelhouse. "There are fish here somewhere".
Date: 1 January 1965
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118. Sprat fishing on board Peter French's CLUARAN. "Make a quick shot".
Rodney Hucklesby on the left and Peter French on the right.
Date: 1 January 1965
Image ID REA_AB1_113

119. Sprat fishing on board Peter French's CLUARAN. First haul - Andrew French.
Date: 1 January 1965
Image ID REA_AB1_115

120. Sprat fishing on board Peter French's CLUARAN CK100 - homeward bound.
Image ID REA_AB1_119