91. Map of bombs, incendiaries and crashed planes on Mersea Island during World War 2.
This is a scan of a black and white copy of the original map. It has ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MAP_BOMB_001

92. Part of the bomb map of Mersea Island showing the string of High Explosive [marked in Blue] bombs dropped from near the Water Tower down Mersea Avenue, with the ...
Date: 21 November 1940
Image ID MAP_BOMB_001_003

93. 373 Coast Battery R.A. West Mersea. Map is of a portion of Victoria Esplanade with Willoughby Avenue going north left of centre of map. Kialami in upper centre ...
Date: October 1941
Image ID MAP_WW2_001

94. A Novel Ice-Cream Parlour.
Mr Dawson is to be congratulated on his second ice-cream parlour, fitted out from a war-time gun site. We hope that this venture ...
Date: May 1948
Image ID MCY_002_P03_001

95. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 14.
Fifty years on - Mersea Island in Wartime, by Pat Norris née ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_028

96. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 15.
Recollections of an Evacuee by Pat Norris née Patten contd.
Arriving at ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_029

97. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 16.
A Land Girl - Edna Smy.
Edna joined the Women's Land Army and was sent to ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_030

98. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 17.
A Land Girl by Edna Smy. In Peldon and mostly Mersea, contd.
- British Legion ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_031

99. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 18.
A Young Man - Sir Robin Day contd.
"I joined my local Home Guard in West Mersea, ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_032

100. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 19.
World War 2 - A Farmer. Alan Gray.
Alan Gray recalled how he came to Mersea in ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_033

101. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 20.
World War 2 - A Farmer. Alan Gray contd.
A Grocer - Elsie Whiting.
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_034

102. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 21.
World War 2 - A child. Ruth V. Woodley.
I was born in 1938 and by the time I was ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_035

103. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 21.
Ruth V. Woodley contd.
...
As I conclude my childhood memories, I must tell ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_036

104. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 24.
A Soldier. Eric Youldon contd.
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_038

105. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 25.
World War 2 - A Young Woman. Joyce Keene.
Private schools at Cornerways, and at ...
Date: January 1990
Image ID MIS_1990_039

106. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 26.
A Young Woman Joyce Keene contd.

A Worried Song - by Ruth V. Woodley.

107. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1991. Page 57.
A Recollection of 1939. H.M.S.
Evacuees.

War had been declared. I had ...
Date: January 1991
Image ID MIS_1991_067

108. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1991. Page 58.
A Recollection of 1939 continuted - transcribed with previous page.
Hazel's ...
Date: January 1991
Image ID MIS_1991_068

109. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1995. Page 27.
Commemorations of the end of World War II in 1945. Fifty Years on !!!
Memories ...
Date: January 1995
Image ID MIS_1995_045

110. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1995. Page 28.
Commemorations of the end of World War II in 1945 contd.

Mary ...
Date: January 1995
Image ID MIS_1995_046

111. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1995. Page 29.
Commemorations of the end of World War II in 1945 contd.
Read the full article ...
Date: January 1995
Image ID MIS_1995_047

112. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1996. Page 5.
An Island Anthem.
Mersea Island Souvenir Passport
West Mersea's War Memorial ...
Date: January 1996
Image ID MIS_1996_019

113. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. 2002 Page 8.

Evacuees by Helen Searle ( HMS )

Helen Searle is a former resident of Mersea who ...
Date: January 2002
Image ID MIS_2002_010

114. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. 2002 Page 9.

Evacuees by Helen Searle ( HMS ) continued from ...
Date: January 2002
Image ID MIS_2002_011

115. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. 2008 Page 32.
The Old Boy on a Bike. [ Policing on Mersea in days gone by ]

The earliest record I ...
Date: March 2008
Image ID MIS_2008_034

116. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. 2008 Page 33
The Old Boy on a Bike contd.

One final memory of ordnance, In the days of the ...
Date: March 2008
Image ID MIS_2008_035

117. Denis Smy a Profile, by Godfrey Thomas.
Denis was a Flight Sergeant in the RAF in WW2.
From Mersea Life October 2018, Local page 192.
Date: October 2018
Image ID ML2018_010_L92

118. Denis Smy a Profile, by Godfrey Thomas, contd.
Denis was a Flight Sergeant in the RAF in WW2.
From Mersea Life October 2018, Local page 193.
Date: October 2018
Image ID ML2018_010_L93

119. Ration Book Supplement for Barbara Maude Mears, The Ivy House, East Mersea - Page 1
Date: 7 July 1941
Image ID MM2013_MEA_RTN_001

120. Ration Book Supplement for Barbara Mears - Page 6
Date: 7 July 1941
Image ID MM2013_MEA_RTN_006