91. Outside the off license, Howards Stores, Church Road.
Carol Dixon, Percy Bacon, Dilys Overbury née Maylor, Bessie Dixon [Mum].
We are all ... Date: 1960s Image ID CW3_107 |
92. Grace Evelyn Hewes née STOKER and Rita Stoker (Eric Stoker's wife)
A. Hewes shop on left - it is Blackwater Pearl in 2018.
[Andy ... Image ID DB05_020_003 |
93. Presentation at Colchester Co-op. Dorothy Brown is on the left.
Photograph is by Tony Nichols, Ipswich Rd., Colchester. Date: 15 February 1975 Image ID DB11_011_003 |
94. Dorothy Brown - presentation at the Co-op in Mersea. Dorothy Brown on the left and Geoff Green on the right.
This Co-op was on the corner of Kingsland Road ... Date: October 1979 Image ID DB11_013_001 |
95. Presentation a West Mersea Co-op on retirment of Geoff Green, the Branch Manager. He is cutting the cake. Dorothy Brown is second from left. Date: October 1979 Image ID DB11_013_003 |
96. Retirements. Geoff's Golden Years.
West Mersea branch grocery manager Geoff Green receives his retirement cheque from Society Director Mrs Wendy Morris ... Date: October 1979 Image ID DB11_013_005 |
97. 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 ... Image ID DB11_013_007 |
98. Dorothy Brown at Digby's shop, pouring paraffin. Image ID DB16_021 |
99. 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 Image ID DBN_OPA_151 |
100. Digby's Shop being demolished. The shop front had been built by Gilbert Rowley. Date: 1985 Image ID DBO_077 |
101. 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 Image ID DC10_WTG_007 |
102. 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 ... Image ID DCR_001_001 |
103. 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 Image ID DCR_031 |
104. 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 Image ID DEP_GOW_007 |
105. Hall Barn Riding Stables run by Miss Grubb who is on the left. Centre is Diana Westcott and Bobby. Date: c1938 Image ID DHL_033 |
106. Reeve's outfitting shop in Church Road. Drapery, boots and shoes. Used in 2002 Summer Exhibition. Date: May 2002 Image ID DIS2002_RVS_001 |
107. 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 Image ID DIS2002_RVS_003 |
108. 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 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_061 |
109. 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 ... Image ID DIS2010_WASS_003 |
110. Clifford White & Co West Mersea. Manhole cover. On display in Mersea Museum, Benham Wing Date: 23 August 2018 Image ID DIS2011_CMW_013 |
111. 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. Image ID DIS2015_CRD_007 |
112. 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 Image ID DM1_AB1_011_005 |
113. Colchester's new Co-operative Branch at West Mersea, on the corner of Kingsland Road and Barfield Road. Date: August 1921 Image ID DM1_AB3A_004_001 |
114. 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 Image ID DM1_AB4_008_003 |
115. Mrs June Williams at the West Mersea Telephone Exchange. Date: 15 January 1965 Image ID DM1_AB5_064_005 |
116. Farewell to the Fairhaven. The demolition men and machines move into West Mersea and a familiar local scene starts to disappear.
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The retaurant ... Date: 26 January 1973 Image ID DM1_AB9_037_001 |
117. Blanche's cafe at the bottom of Lower Kingsland Road. Mrs Veronica Smith (née Downsworth) in front. Date: 1939 Image ID DOW_OPA_017 |
118. Digbys' Shop - Hugh Banham by the counter.
Photograph from Eileen Brown Image ID EBR_003 |
119. Happy Days on the island. School days in West Mersea - pupils at Wests Mersea Council School in 1923. The picture was sent in by Mrs Iris Harvey née ... Date: 31 October 2003 Image ID ECS_2003_OCT31_020 |
120. Mersea Island, Essex
Accommodation is offered in old world cottage situated in rural surroundings near sea and creeks
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N.M. Lussignea ... Image ID FID_009_051 |