91. Repton Dixon's Stores in Church Road, West Mersea. All the shop staff.
1. Bessie Dixon (with her tongue out), 2. Pat Franklin, 3. Susan Hales, 4. Carol ...
Date: c1965
Image ID CW3_105_001

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

95. 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

96. 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

97. 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

98. 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

99. Dorothy Brown at Digby's shop, pouring paraffin.
Image ID DB16_021

100. 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

101. Digby's Shop being demolished. The shop front had been built by Gilbert Rowley.
Date: 1985
Image ID DBO_077

102. 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

103. 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

104. 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

105. 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

106. 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

107. Reeve's outfitting shop in Church Road. Drapery, boots and shoes. Used in 2002 Summer Exhibition.
Date: May 2002
Image ID DIS2002_RVS_001

108. 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

109. 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

110. 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

111. Clifford White & Co West Mersea. Manhole cover. On display in Mersea Museum, Benham Wing
Date: 23 August 2018
Image ID DIS2011_CMW_013

112. 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

113. 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

114. 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

115. 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

116. Mrs June Williams at the West Mersea Telephone Exchange.
Date: 15 January 1965
Image ID DM1_AB5_064_005

117. Farewell to the Fairhaven. The demolition men and machines move into West Mersea and a familiar local scene starts to disappear.
...
The retaurant ...
Date: 26 January 1973
Image ID DM1_AB9_037_001

118. Blanche's cafe at the bottom of Lower Kingsland Road. Mrs Veronica Smith (née Downsworth) in front.
Date: 1939
Image ID DOW_OPA_017

119. Digbys' Shop - Hugh Banham by the counter.
Photograph from Eileen Brown
Image ID EBR_003

120. 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