1. Hythe Bridge 1823 - engraving marked The Hithe Bridge, Colchester. Print published by Swinberne & Walter, July 1825
From: Colchester River - Local Photos etc.
Date: July 1825
Image ID BF03_002_002_001

2. Revival of straw trade. Stackies being towed down Colchester River in 'convoy', bound for Ridham and the Kent paper mills. The left hand barge is BRITISH EMPIRE ...
Date: c1948
Image ID BF03_002_003_002

3. High water in the Colne. A fleet of barges gets under way with the first of the ebb, bound for the Thames and Medway. This photograph was one of Douglas Went's ...
Image ID BF21_001_004_001

4. A latter-day stack barge, the VIOLET of Maldon, owned by Francis and Guilders of Colchester, towing down the Colne off Rowhedge in 1948. The hold and deck are ...
Date: 1948
Image ID BF67_001_042_001

5. Unknown barge loaded with timber passing Rowhedge. CAP PILAR and Wivenhoe in background.
From: Barges
Image ID BF68_001_030_007

6. River Colne. From an Aldous catalog.
Image ID BF69_015_004

7. Everard's SINCERITY aground in the River Colne and causing a "River Stoppage"
Douglas Went photograph, used in The Sailor's Coast Page 29.
SINCERITY ...
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
Date: 12 December 1936
Image ID BF73_001_042_001

8. S.W. CORONA leaving Wivenhoe under tow.
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
Date: c1903
Image ID BF73_001_056_001

9. Wivenhoe and River Colne. Smack.
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
Image ID BF73_001_128_001

10. Sailing Barges. [DW]
Barges weighing anchor in the Colne on a fine summer's morning as others sail out of the river, bound for the Spitway, a narrow, ...
Image ID BOXB5_012_001

11. Barges at Colchester Hythe. [DW]
Douglas Went saw the Indian summer of the sailing barge and this photograph of Colchester Hythe in the 1930s shows nine ...
Date: c1935
Image ID BOXB5_012_011

12. Barges windbound off the Promenade [Brightlingsea] [DW]
Barges windbound in Colne during a south-westerly gale. Prolonged bad weather meant loss of ...
Image ID BOXB5_012_017

13. Schooner TAMESIS. The old steamer and sailing ship type of ornamental bow for many years before 1936 seen sailing on the River Colne. [DW].
The 140 ton ...
Date: 1933
Image ID BOXB5_013_012

14. MMS 1012 [on back of photograph]
FY PT 1012 leaves the river Colne after completion and commissioning in 1943. The harbour party and an officer are ...
Date: c15 October 1943
Image ID BOXB5_014_024

15. Two barges sailing into the Colne on the flood tide. One already brailing her sails in readiness to anchor to make the Hythe on the next flood. Two at anchor ...
Image ID BOXB5_015_001

16. The year the creek froze from Brightlingsea to Wivenhoe. [DW]
The frozen River Colne at Wivenhoe, February 1929. The tidal east-coast rivers will freeze ...
Date: February 1929
Image ID BOXB5_015_017

17. 52 years ferrying and still going strong. Mr Mole, who has ferried ... from East Mersea to ... and back for 52 years, takes a rest from cleaning his boat, ...
Date: 15 July 1933
Image ID BOXB5_015_021

18. CLAUDE [DW]
Opening day in the Colne Fishery, about 1930. The fishery Company smack CLAUDE leads four others past the Company motor paddle dredger PYEFLEET ...
Image ID BOXB5_017_025

19. Dredging up oysters in the River Colne. [DW]
The Colne Fishery Company smack NATIVE hauls alongside an oyster skiff to dump thousands of slipper limpets ...
Date: 1936
Image ID BOXB5_017_029

20. Colne river police boats PRINCE OF WALES and ALEXANDRA stand upriver over the oyster beds they guarded. The Colne River Police were established in 1890 to take ...
Image ID BOXB5_017_034

21. Photo of a painting. An old barquentine gets underway in Colne. N.O.S. 1948
From: Photographs --- various
Image ID BOXB9_005_012

22. Rowhedge Regatta c1905. Rowing Race. Smacks & E.Wade's bumkin.
Postcard Smiths 952P.
Date: c1905
Image ID BOXL_026_002_005

23. The Wreck in Colne, by R.J.E. Ellis.
The story of the S.S. LOWLANDS which was torpedoed near the Girdler Sandbank 18 March 1916. She was beached on Mucking ...
Date: February 1978
Image ID CAC_1978_FEB_P14

24. The Wreck in Colne by R.J.E. Ellis - the S.S. LOWLANDS. Page 2 of 4.
From Coast and Country Magazine Vol.7 No.1 February 1978.
Date: February 1978
Image ID CAC_1978_FEB_P15

25. The Wreck in Colne by R.J.E. Ellis - the S.S. LOWLANDS. Page 3 of 4.
Lower picture shows LOWLANDS during salvage operations 1920-21.
From Coast and ...
Date: February 1978
Image ID CAC_1978_FEB_P16

26. The Wreck in Colne by R.J.E. Ellis - the S.S. LOWLANDS. Page 4 of 4.
From Coast and Country Magazine Vol.7 No.1 February 1978.
Date: February 1978
Image ID CAC_1978_FEB_P17

27. OMNIA of Panama - coasters at Colchester Hythe.

Built Hamburg-Cranz 1955 as JAN HAMM LR/IMO 5169526 424 tons. Renamed OMNIA 1975, ANNA HENNY 1981, JEAN ...
Image ID CGT_002_005

28. Robin and Alan Edwards, Hilda Stoker rowing, Dorothy Brown on right. River Colne with Everard coaster in background ?
Date: 15 August 1951
Image ID DB01_033_005

29. Barge on the River Colne near Colchester.
Not identified, but Ron Green writes:
One of Paul's by the X in the topsail. It's one of their 'Rivers' ...
Date: Before 1939
Image ID DBO_202

30. River Colne down to the Sea. Photograph 3.
There are no photographs marked 1 or 2.
Date: c1948
Image ID DW18_001