
1. West Mersea Hall. Cedar tree and fence of future Museum on left. Date: c1958 Image ID BJ57_059_001 |

2. West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 7 page 19
Builder plans a museum for Mersea. Stanley and Myrtle Hills. Essex County Standard 13 June 1975 Date: 13 June 1975 Image ID WMC_SB07_021 |

3. Building Mersea Museum. Stanley Hills, Harry Booth, Tom Farthing Date: August 1975 Image ID RLB_001_001 |

4. Building Mersea Museum. Stanley Hills, Harry Booth, Tom Farthing Date: August 1975 Image ID RLB_001_002 |

5. Building Mersea Museum. Date: December 1975 Image ID RLB_001_003 |

6. Building Mersea Museum. Date: December 1975 Image ID RLB_001_004 |

7. West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 8 page 2.
Mersea's museum nears completion Date: 13 February 1976 Image ID WMC_SB08_004 |

8. West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 8 page 12
Association wants wider use of Museum Date: 30 April 1976 Image ID WMC_SB08_014 |

9. Opening Mersea Museum. Mervyn Dands, Stanley Hills and Leslie Haines. Stanley Hills' Ransome steam engine was used to pull MALWEN and other yachts into Grove ... Date: 10 September 1976 Image ID MF05_012 |

10. Semprini opening Mersea Museum
L-R Peter French - Trustee, Stanley Hills, Myrtle Hills, Semprini.
Photograph used in Evening Gazette 13 September ... Date: 11 September 1976 Image ID MF05_010 |

11. West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 8 page 41
Good start for museum ... Date: 12 November 1976 Image ID WMC_SB08_043 |

12. Mersea Museum Guidebook by John Nichol. Front Cover. Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_001 |

13. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Front papers. Plan of Museum.
A guide to Mersea Museum by John Nicol. Copyright 1977. Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_004 |

14. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Pages 1 and 2.
Contents.
Introduction. Museum was the idea of Stanley Hills. Second hand bricks used from old cavalry ... Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_006 |

15. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Pages 3 and 4.
Introduction continued.
The way the Museum works. Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_008 |

16. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Pages 7 and 8.
Transport and Engineering Section
Art Section.
Local History Section. Drawing of scales for weighing ... Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_012 |

17. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Pages 9 and 10.
Natural history diorama.
The Gift Stall.
Postscript. Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_014 |

18. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Pages 11 and 12.
What you get when you join the Trust.
Drawing of gun punt.
Membership form. Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_016 |

19. Mersea Museum Guidebook. Back cover. Map of area. Date: 1977 Image ID MBK_GBK_020 |

20. Stanley Hills in Mersea Museum. From Harry Booth's photographs. Date not marked, but it is in the early days of the Museum.
Accession No. 2011.06.002B Date: c1977 Image ID MGA_MUS_001 |

21. West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 9 page 2
Museum's in the black. Essex County Standard 14 Jan 1977 Date: 14 January 1977 Image ID WMC_SB09_004 |

22. West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 9 page 8
Mersea museum plans jubilee show Date: 11 March 1977 Image ID WMC_SB09_010 |

23. West Mersea news
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Museum fashion show
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From West Mersea Council Cuttings Book 9 - loose cuttings Date: 23 June 1978 Image ID WMC_SB10_203 |

24. Skull dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near West Mersea church. Date: 1979 Image ID COR2_012_004 |

25. Museum study wreck's remains.
Emerging out of the mud below the church is a 20ft clinker built boat of uncertain age - the limit seems to vary between 100 ... Date: 5 January 1979 Image ID WMC_SB10_401 |

26. Myrddin Davies at Mersea Museum in the early days. Taken for Essex County Standard. The barge model has not been identified. Date: c1980 Image ID DAV_MUS_001 |

27. Myrddin Davies at Mersea Museum. Date: c1980 Image ID DAV_MUS_003 |

28. Mersea Island Museum Trust Newsletter 24.
Welcome to the Eighties, by M. Kettle, Pownall Crescent, Colchester.
Particular thanks to Mrs Garrard and Mr ... Date: February 1980 Image ID MIMT_NL24_001 |

29. Mersea Island Horticultural Society. Mersea Museum. Planting tree to commemorate 80th birthday of H.R. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
L to R, Mr A.G. ... Date: 4 August 1980 Image ID MMC_2008_09_001_D_002 |

30. Ralph Luckham Museum Secretary 1977 Chairman 1981.
A tribute to their sense of purpose. Newspaper article about Mersea Museum, from Yellow Advertiser. Date: 21 August 1981 Image ID MMH_001 |