91. West Mersea Co-op - on the corner of Kingsland Road and Barfield Road. This must be the store room behind the shop as this shop was never ...
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92. Dorothy Brown at Digby's shop, pouring paraffin.
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93. Digby's shop in Barfield Road. Three Digby brothers in the picture. The lady to the left of the door is Emma Mole, Sandra Conway's grandmother.
Date: c1910
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94. Digby's Shop being demolished. The shop front had been built by Gilbert Rowley.
Date: 1985
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95. Holly Lodge, 2 High Street North, West Mersea. For many years the base for John Whiting, sand and ballast, house fuels, and haulage contractor. Whiting's yard ...
Date: 29 August 2019
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96. Digby's 1926 Austin Chummy TW6307. It was used to deliver paraffin on the island for many years, and dropped out of use in the late 1940s. When Digby's closed ...
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97. Digby's 1926 Austin Chummy TW6307, restored by David O'Connor. The car returned to Mersea as a special guest for the 2015 Lions Transport Show on 8 August 2015.
Date: c2015
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98. Gowens sailmakers. L-R Colin Anstey, Daphne Hewes (on floor). Claude Green (behind Daphne), Stanley French, John Wareing, George Freer (on floor), Ernie Ponder, ...
Date: c1960
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99. Hall Barn Riding Stables run by Miss Grubb who is on the left. Centre is Diana Westcott and Bobby.
Date: c1938
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100. Reeve's outfitting shop in Church Road. Drapery, boots and shoes. Used in 2002 Summer Exhibition.
Date: May 2002
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101. Reeve's outfitting shop in Church Road. Drapery, boots and shoes.
L-R 1., 2. Ena French, 3., 4. Mr Reeve, 5. Arthur Death.
Used in 2002 Summer ...
Date: May 2002
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102. Coronation Villa, East Mersea, 1906.
The home and shop of the Underwood family was built in 1902. Robert Underwood ran his carrier business from the ...
Date: Before 1910
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103. Fred I. Wass. Hairdresser and Tobacconist.
Frederick Inward Wass was born in 1912. He started work on a Saturday as a lather boy for Bobby Keyes when he ...
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104. Clifford White & Co West Mersea. Manhole cover. On display in Mersea Museum, Benham Wing
Date: 23 August 2018
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105. Shops at the north end of Coast Road. L-R the shops are J.F. Botham Gift Shop, Peter Knapman, A. & T. Savage Fine Shoes.
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106. The Central Cafe in High Street after the fire.
Undated newspaper photograph by J.E. Stutter

From an attached cutting:
... it was discovered ...
Date: 1930s
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107. Gunsite in Action. 1947!
The ammunition is soft drinks and ice cream; the "gun-crew" Mrs Stoker and Mrs Dawson. But the concrete walls of this unusual ...
Date: 27 June 1947
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108. Blanche's cafe at the bottom of Lower Kingsland Road. Mrs Veronica Smith (née Downsworth) in front.
Date: 1939
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109. Digbys' Shop - Hugh Banham by the counter.
Photograph from Eileen Brown
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110. John Lungley, Boot and Shoe Maker, Captains Road.
From Album 1. Accession No. 2016-11-001A
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111. Alec Garnham, brother of Shirley Moore. Proprietor of Garnhams Newsagents (1984).
From Album 1. Accession No. 2016-11-001A
Date: c1984
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112. Photograph taken outside the greengrocery shop in Kingsland Road [for the 1930 Regatta parade ?]. The man in front of the horse is Arthur Mills (father of Jenny ...
Date: August 1930
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113. Arthur Mills (left) and Jack Cudmore (cousin of Lorna Tarran) delivering groceries in Seaview Avenue.
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114. Central Stores. O. & E. Whiting, decorated for the 1953 Coronation.
From Album 2. Accession No. 2016-11-001B
Date: June 1953
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115. Hector Farthing in the employ of Clifford White builders, brickmakers and funeral undertakers. Also coal merchants.
From Album 2.
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116. Brassy and Cadder Mussett's shop with Birdy's to the right. 'Cadder' also did hair cutting behind Birdy's shop at 3d a time, and if anyone came into his shop ...
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117. The bakery and Mill House, Mill Road.
From Album 3.
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118. Muriel Pullen, Bertie Hardy, Mrs E. Vince, Ernie Vince.
Ernie started work as a butcher in this building (where now stands the accountants and barbers) ...
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119. Ernie Vince eventually worked for himself, using these premises on the corner of Rainbow Road - eventually to become Co-op butchers and in 1986 the Lotus House ...
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120. Alice Reed's shop next to Gowens on Coast Road. Alice Reed née Hewes was Owen's grandmother. Alice used the shop when Owen's great grandfather John Hewes ...
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