91. Straw binding in the 1940s, probably at Layer Breton Hall.
L-R 1. Alf Taylor, 2. Charles Taylor (Snr), 3. Samuel Bullock, 4. unknown
Date: 1940s
Image ID HWT_FRM_035

92. Cecil Mussett and Vic Sams, about 1944 when Cecil was 14. Raspberry and blackcurrant bushes. View looking northwest from Vic Sams' fields in Chapmans Lane to ...
Date: c1944
Image ID IA1_MUS_560

93. Vic Sams and Cecil Mussett --- Chapman's Lane where Vic grew seeds and in the early days, also kept goats and sold the milk. Cecil worked for Vic for almost 30 ...
Date: May 1949
Image ID IA1_MUS_561

94. Cecil Mussett at Chapmans Lane where he worked for Vic Sams. He has a goat in his right hand, a dog in his left hand and another goat by his feet. In the early ...
Date: May 1949
Image ID IA1_MUS_562

95. Mersea Seed Growers during WW1. Bocking Hall Farm, Seed Growing War Time on 1,500 Acres.
From E.W. King, Seed growers, Coggeshall. See ...
Date: c1917
Image ID JAY_SDG_005

96. Mersea Seed Growers during WW1. Land Army in First World War.
Mrs Goldy Green, Beatie Green, Mrs Watcham, Mabel Benns. [Names from back of card.]
Date: c1917
Image ID JAY_SDG_007

97. East Mersea Parish Church, Hall Farm and East Mersea Hall.
Jack Botham Flight 9.
Date: 29 August 1965
Image ID JBA_009_405

98. Tedding the hay crop, Cudmore Grove - turning it to dry in the sun.
Used in the Mistral, 1999.
Date: July 1998
Image ID JCN_005

99. Ploughing Match on fields at the top of Brierley Avenue. This was the new venue for ploughing matches after WW2. Amongst the spectators are Police Constable ...
Date: c1948
Image ID JCN_012

100. Cutting hay from a stack - it will be put into the press (to the left of the stack) and made into trusses for carriage. Wilfred Francis on the stack, and his ...
Image ID KBA_HAY_001

101. Cutting hay from the stack on the right, and pressing into trusses using the press in the centre. The trusses are stacked on the left - lady on top is unknown ...
Image ID KBA_HAY_003

102. Bromans Farm, East Mersea, where Mrs Diane Spence was brought up. The tiny extension at the centre of the building was a bread oven and the little shed-like ...
Date: Before 1943
Image ID LH29_036_002

103. Well House Farm. - Dated approx. turn of the Century. pics from Mary Little , Ernie Mole's daughter, Broomfield
Date: c1900
Image ID LTL_001

104. Horse Ploughing. In this picture of quieter and slower farming days, the plough-man carves a single furrow as he controls his pair of heavy horses. The view is ...
Date: c1925
Image ID MBK_TPT_046_002

105. Watering Horses. Three horses take a well-earned drink at the pond in front of Tollesbury Hall Farm. The central building is the cart lodge, in front of which a ...
Date: c1930
Image ID MBK_TPT_047_002

106. Cross Farm in Cross Lane.
Image ID MF05_005

107. Brickhouse Farm, West Mersea. William Trim - smoking pipe - was a threshing contractor at Mersea. The steam engine was a 'portable', i.e. it was not ...
Date: c1915
Image ID MF05_006

108. Combine Harvester at work. Location not known.
35mm slide by Jean Booth.
Date: cSeptember 1965
Image ID MGA_SB1_032

109. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. 1969 / 1970. Page 26.
Farming - An Ancient Monument, by Alan Gray
Date: March 1970
Image ID MIS_1970_026

110. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. Winter 1973 / 1974 Page 10.
Recollections and Reflections by Fred Scott contd.
Farms on Mersea Island ...
Date: 1974
Image ID MIS_1974_012

111. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society 2021. Page 36.
Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh

For transcription see ...
Date: 2021
Image ID MIS_2021_038

112. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society 2021. Page 37.
Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh contd.

For transcription see ...
Date: 2021
Image ID MIS_2021_039

113. Brierley Hall cows in Seaview Avenue. Postcard mailed March 1913. Charles Stanley (Bump) Farthing far left. Nursing Home on right, Brazil House on left became ...
Date: c1911
Image ID MMC_L615_001

114. Jim and Oliver Farthing, East Road, flailing for seeds. This is where Brierley Avenue is now.
The 1911 Census and 1936 Electors list show both James and ...
Image ID MMC_P579_B

115. In the Cornfields - harvest. The man with the white beard is possibly Bob Burgess. Cleghorn photograph. Another copy of this card posted 25 August ...
Date: Before August 1908
Image ID MMC_P755_097

116. East and West Mersea Ploughing Matches. Bocking Hall Farm 24 September 1949.
Date: 24 September 1949
Image ID MMO_001

117. Horn Farm Salcott Labour Accounts Book No. 1 1904.
4 December 1904 Barge came up to Church Wharf with Stone for Salcot Parish MERCY.
4 December 1904 ...
Date: 28 November 1904
Image ID MP01_040

118. Horn Farm Salcott Labour Accounts Book No. 1 1904-1905.
18 July 1905 Mr Wright Wigborough.
24 July 1905 Bright Mr.
25 July 1905 A. Foakes.
Date: 18 July 1905
Image ID MP01_160

119. Horn Farm Salcott Labour Accounts Book No. 1 1904-1905.
Handly account.
6 December 1906 barge unloaded at the Church Wharf for Mr C. Hutley, Stones. ...
Date: 14 November 1914
Image ID MP01_181

120. Horn Farm Salcott Labour Accounts Book No. 1 1904-1905.
4 February 1905 paid Joslins Colchester to settle account.
Accounts for Ponder, Mr Seabrook, ...
Date: 4 February 1905
Image ID MP01_182