31. Sunset at the Hard.
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32. 1939-40 ice and houseboat RAVEN owned by Whelpton family. Looking across Victory Dock to the Victory Hotel.
RAVEN was damaged by a bomb in the war and ...
Date: cJanuary 1940
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33. West Mersea Hard
Date: October 1965
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34. View across the cricket field below Coast Road, to the Blackwater. Sailing barge making its way upstream. The pill box is still intact - by 2000 only the base ...
Date: c1948
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35. View across the cricket field below Coast Road, to the Blackwater.
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36. View from Hove Creek looking across cricket field to River Blackwater. Laid up Shell tanker HYALINA - she was in the river 20 Jan 1958 to 16 Feb 1961.
Date: c1959
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37. View from Coast Road across 'cricket field' to River Blackwater.
Laid up Ships in river L-R 1. Union Castle, 2. LA CORDILLERA (15 Aug 1962 - 27 Sep 1962), ...
Date: c15 September 1962
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38. Hove Hill, Coast Road, before it was widened and given a pavement.
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39. Oyster pits, West Mersea
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40. Bentley's Oyster Fishery Co. Ltd. Coast Road. The shed was formerly the Stags Head Oyster Company.
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41. Oyster pits, Coast Road, West Mersea
Date: c1960
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42. Oyster baskets. Native oysters.
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43. Houseboats at West Mersea. In foreground is GREY GULL in Hove Creek.
Centre is DOLPHIN - an ex RNLI Self Righting lifeboat.
Behind L-R PEGGOTTY, AVEL, ...
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44. Houseboats at West Mersea
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45. Flat bottomed boat in creek.
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46. View out to Packing Shed. Ships laid up in River Blackwater.
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47. Yachts on slipway at Clarke & Carter's boatyard. The slipway track continue across the road into the big shed.
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48. William Wyatt Yacht and Boat Builders, West Mersea.
Coast Road - Old Victory in the distance.
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49. William Wyatt Yacht and Boat Builders, West Mersea. Slipway.
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50. William Wyatt Yacht and Boat Builders, West Mersea. Slipway - ERIDANI II WMYC.
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51. William Wyatt Yacht and Boat Builders, West Mersea. Slipway - looking towards the Nothe.
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52. William Wyatt Yacht and Boat Builders, West Mersea. Slipway with Old Victory, Smugglers Way in background on Coast Road.
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53. William Wyatt Yacht and Boat Builders, West Mersea.
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54. View from the Nothe across the Strood Channel towards Wigborough.
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55. View across Strood Channel towards Wigborough.
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56. View from Nothe across Strood Channel. Hulk of PIONEER.
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57. View from Nothe across Strood Channel to Wigborough. Hulk of PIONEER.
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58. View across Strood Channel to Wigborough.
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59. PORT ERROLL in the ice. The hard winter of 1963 ?
Date: cFebruary 1963
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60. Icy creeks. The hard winter of 1963 ?
Date: cFebruary 1963
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