1. 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

2. Some of the bones dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near the church.
Date: 3 July 2007
Image ID COR2_012_001

3. Some of the bones dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near West Mersea church.
Date: 3 July 2007
Image ID COR2_012_003

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

5. West Mersea 1936
Children's Special Service Mission [Beach Club].
Date: 6 August 1936
Image ID CSSM_001

6. Children's Special Service Mission [Beach Club]
Programme First Week. Note to parents from J.A. Kingham and C.V. Gledhill, Fairhaven House.
Donated by ...
Date: 6 August 1936
Image ID CSSM_003

7. Children's Special Service Mission [Beach Club]
Programme First Week side 2. Beach Meetings. If wet, to be held in Assembly Hall
Accession No. ...
Date: 6 August 1936
Image ID CSSM_004

8. Children's Special Service Mission [Beach Club]
Programme Second Week. Note to parents by J.A. Kingham and C.V. Gledhill, Fairhaven House.
Accession ...
Date: 6 August 1936
Image ID CSSM_005

9. Children's Special Service Mission [Beach Club]
Programme Second Week side 2. Beach Meetings.
Date: 6 August 1936
Image ID CSSM_006

10. Bronze Age board walk boards found off East Mersea.
Timber 1 239 x 11 x 2.6 cm
Timber 2 256 x 10.6 x 4.7 cm
Timber 3 235 x 11.8 x ...
Date: 19 January 2017
Image ID CZN_TBR_013

11. Board walk timbers found off Coopers Beach. Wrapping timber 3 at Museum of London Archaeology. Scale drawings were done and then they were sent to Portsmouth ...
Date: 31 March 2017
Image ID CZN_TBR_041

12. Removing a section from one of the board walk timbers for dating. Ian Tyers, dendrochronologist from Historic England.
Date: cApril 2017
Image ID CZN_TBR_051

13. Section removed from board walk timber for dendrochronology (tree ring dating). The result was 'not before 952 BC'.
Date: cApril 2017
Image ID CZN_TBR_053

14. The timbers found in the mud off Mersea waiting to go into the preservation tank.
Date: July 2018
Image ID DC10_MUS_031

15. Timbers found in the mud off Mersea in 2017, now in the preservation tank.
Date: July 2018
Image ID DC10_MUS_033

16. The Board Walk timbers in their pit under the floor in the main hall of the Museum. They are here waiting for the glass cover - which was fitted March ...
Date: 31 May 2021
Image ID DC10_MUS_121

17. Tunic from the 1953 West Mersea Coronation Pageant, on display in the 2013 Summer Exhibition.
Date: 26 April 2013
Image ID DIS2013_PAG_001

18. A pram outside the Museum cottage. The pram dates from 1968 and was made by boatbuilder John Milgate for his young son Angus.
Date: 1 May 2017
Image ID DIS2017_131

19. Mini exhibition of vintage clothing, interesting and unusual textiles. Left to right Georgie Hewes, Christine Bassett's 1959 wedding dress with a very small ...
Date: 27 July 2018
Image ID DIS2018_VCL_001

20. Ray Smith with the working water pump he has restored during the past winter. It is very popular with Museum visitors.
Date: 24 May 2019
Image ID DIS2019_002

21. Working water pump, restored 2019 by Ray Smith. The pumps had many uses - one of them can be found on the preserved lightship at Harwich where it was used to ...
Date: 18 August 2019
Image ID DIS2019_003

22. Our Telephone Box. Go inside and Press Button B - but you may not get your money back.
Date: 30 June 2019
Image ID DIS2019_005

23. Inside our Telephone Box. Press Button A to connect or Press Button B to get your money back.
Top right is a list of early telephone numbers, starting with ...
Date: 30 June 2019
Image ID DIS2019_007

24. Fire siren used on Mersea and loaned by Jonathan Mussett of West Mersea Fire Brigade. In later years it was sited behind the Fire Station in Melrose Road and ...
Date: 2019
Image ID DIS2019_011

25. "Spring Tree". Sculpture by Richard Perry Bedford, c1932.
Donated by Susan Luckham
Accession No. 2014.05.003
Date: 21 June 2019
Image ID DIS2019_RPB_001

26. Bronze age urns recovered from the Barrow complex at East Mersea in 2019 and now on display in Mersea Museum.

Urn 1 on the left
"Cremation wa ...
Date: 1 July 2023
Image ID DIS2023_BRZ_001

27. Mr Bill Pontyfix at the old Victorian Post Box at The Hard in 1959. This was later the first Lifeboat Shed and is in front of Stone House. The post box was ...
Date: 1959
Image ID FL12_023_001

28. Anchor recovered from Barrow Deep by West Mersea Skipper Pat Mead of fishing boat OAKLEIGH and landed at Colchester Hythe. The anchor weighed over 2 tons and is ...
Date: August 1977
Image ID IA003350

29. Kids' Corner in Mersea Museum 2006 season. The wheel was loaned by Martin Wade and had been rescued from the sailing barge UNITY by John Milgate. Nelson's Cabin ...
Date: 26 June 2006
Image ID IA003390

30. Gun punt built by William Wyatt at West Mersea in 1919. It has its original gun and was used for wildfowling in Mersea for many years, owned by Charlie Stoker ...
Date: 1 May 2008
Image ID IA003400