31. Fishing
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_063_009

32. Ted Little from Leigh shrimping on VICTORIOUS.
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_063_010

33. Fishing for shrimps. Ted Little from Leigh on VICTORIOUS.
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_063_012

34. LO154
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_063_014

35. Shrimper BOY DAVID London
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_064_001

36. LO38
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_067_002

37. LO480, NAVIGATOR LO428, LETITIA III LO422
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_067_003

38. NAVIGATOR LO428 cockling. Carried in baskets with a wooden yoke.
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_068_002

39. Launch of LO486
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_071_001

40. VANGUARD LO501 loading or unloading cockles with wooden yoke and baskets
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_072_001

41.
From: Leigh on Sea
Image ID BF66_001_111_001

42. Barrels, carts and skiffs keep the Hard busy. Brightlingsea hard handling sprats. This copy from a book.
Used in The Stowboaters Page 27.
Image ID BF69_015_010

43. Twenty-four spratting smacks were gathered in Brightlingsea Creek at the same time when this photograph of the spratting harvest was taken. They had brought in ...
Image ID BF69_015_018

44. Fishing vessel LAURA BRUCE CK23, registered Colchester.
Built Rowhedge Ironworks, designed by John Leather. John Leather wrote "At the time she was ...
From: Rowhedge --- photos and documents
Image ID BF72_001_039_001

45. LAURA BRUCE about to dredge. Photo from J E Manners, Great Cheverell, Devizes.
From: Rowhedge --- photos and documents
Date: 01-04-1974
Image ID BF72_001_040_001

46. LAURA BRUCE with dredges being emptied.
Photo from J E Manners, Great Cheverell, Devizes.
From: Rowhedge --- photos and documents
Date: 1 April 1974
Image ID BF72_001_041_001

47. Up she comes, Over she goes, Anchor's away
This huge anchor, said to be more than 150 years old, has been trawled up from the seabed by a Mersea fishing ...
Date: August 1977
Image ID BJ54_009_001

48. List of Mersea Boats and Crew page 1. List compiled by Ena French.

CHARITY Isaac & Isaac May
ELIZA Charles Stoker & Henry Cudmore
OAK ...
Image ID BJ54_018_011

49. List of Mersea Boats and Crew page 2. List compiled by Ena French.

SARAH ANN Munson Cook, G. Vince
MARTHA George & John Appleby
SNOWDROP Geo ...
Image ID BJ54_018_012

50. Tollesbury and Mersea Oyster Company men outside the Packing Shed circa 1908. Zeb Milgate (John Milgate's grandfather and Heather Haward's great grandfather) in ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1908
Image ID BOXB3_090_001_001

51. Fishing boats lying on the Hard at Brightlingsea. Left is CK283 MASONIC or (less likely) CK383 MEHALAH.
Date: c1928
Image ID BOXB3_150_001_001

52. West Mersea fishing smacks coming into port on a squally day. [DW]
The GEORGE & ALICE 76CK leads five other West Mersea and Tollesbury dredging smacks down ...
Date: 1930s
Image ID BOXB5_015_031

53. Brightlingsea Hard. Fitting out the fleet. [DW]
Smacks legged up while fitting out for spratting on Brightlingsea Hard. Bottoms have been scrubbed and the ...
Image ID BOXB5_017_001

54. 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

55. Arthur and Harry Death on the Rowhedge ELLEN CK321 catching sprats. [DW]
Arthur and Harry Death stowboating aboard the ELLEN of Rowhedge in the 1920s. They ...
Date: 1920s
Image ID BOXB5_070_001

56. Heaving up stowboat gear with the handspike windlass of a Leigh bawley fishing for whitebait in the Thames estuary.
From "Smacks and Bawleys" Page 65.
From: Smacks and Bawleys
Image ID BOXB6_001_001_004

57. Gulls and the scalloper P.A.G. CK2 on Brightlingsea Hard.
Used in The Sailor's Coast Page 45.
Douglas Went Photograph
From: Douglas Went photographs
Image ID BOXB9_002_004

58. Eel alive oh! The crew of a Dutch eel-carrier lying off Brightlingsea dip-net the cargo from the hold into perforated measures before they are boxed and ...
From: Douglas Went photographs
Image ID BOXB9_002_007

59. Paddle Steamer PYEFLEET built to the order of the Colne Fishery Company.
Paddle Tugs --- 10 built to the order of the Indian Government for service with ...
Image ID BOXD1_002_049

60. Brightlingsea, Essex. In the early morning sprats are unloaded from the smacks, in casks, rowed ashore and then conveyed by lorry to the markets. Norfolk's ...
Date: After August 1934
Image ID BOXD_001_001_001