1. Samuel Cant White in family group c1897.
Back row 1. May 2. Frederick 3. Clifford
Middle row 4. Grace 5. Samuel Cant 6. Katie 7. Horace
Front ... Image ID CMW_FAM_037 |
2. Skull dug up in 1979 behind the Coast Road cottages near West Mersea church. Date: 1979 Image ID COR2_012_004 |
3. Posts in the mud about 200 yds East of Seaview Avenue, West Mersea, visible at low tide. They are believed by some, but not all, to be an Anglo-Saxon fish ... Date: 9 July 2006 Image ID DIS07_FWR_SVW_0294 |
4. Posts in the mud about 200 yds East of Seaview Avenue, West Mersea, visible at low tide. They are believed by some, but not all, to be an Anglo-Saxon fish weir ... Date: 9 July 2006 Image ID DIS07_FWR_SVW_0295 |
5. Coopers Beach. Touring caravans parked on the west side of the tennis court, behind where the clubhouse now stands. There are chalets far right.
From ... Image ID DIS2003_EMF_011 |
6. Coopers Beach - an aerial view in the 1950s.
Development started in the 1930s when chalets in the front row were built for £75. During WW2 the site ... Date: 1950s Image ID DIS2003_EMF_012 |
7. School House and Hall 1910.
The village school was recorded as having places for 80 children with the average number of pupils being 37. The Schoolmaster ... Date: 1910 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_031 |
8. 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 |
9. Robert Underwood in 1927.
Here seen sitting on one of his carts nicknamed 'The Rocket' when he was 80 years old. The bugle was used as a signal to ... Date: 1927 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_062 |
10. East Mersea Rectory 1905.
This house stood opposite Church Lane and was demolished in 1927 by local builder Clifford White who built a new rectory on the same ... Date: 1905 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_071 |
11. Kiddiesland from the sea. Kiddiesland was developed during the 1930s to provide a permanent site for children from London to spend their holidays. In addition ... Date: c1936 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_072 |
12. East Mersea School.
1:? Lord 2: Sid Pullen 3: Winnie Cudmore 4: Joyce Marriage 5: Elsie Pudney 6: Peggy Partridge 7: Joyce Marriage 8:( Tad) Austin 9:? ... Date: 1928 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_081 |
13. East Mersea School in the 1930s.
L-R 1: Phyllis Richer 2: Joyce Marriage 3: Elsie Goodrum 4: Harold Johnson 5: Maurice Johnson 6: Charles Farthing 7: ... Date: c1926 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_082 |
14. Home Farm, East Mersea. The farmhouse was demolished in the 1950s, roof tiles from the house were re-used on the present bungalow. Postcard 101902. Image ID DIS2004_EME_011 |
15. Bromans Farm, East Mersea. Note the brick oven built against the external white wall.
Probably Mrs Hilda Page and daughters Diana and Elizabeth in the ... Date: 1930s Image ID DIS2004_EME_013 |
16. Waggon and horses, an East Mersea farmer.
Thought to be Walter Edward Cowell c1872 to 1948, who was a farm labourer. He had a son Walter William Victor ... Date: c1910 Image ID DIS2004_EME_051 |
17. Pond was on the east side of Weir Farm, is now filled in. Image ID DIS2004_EME_053 |
18. East Mersea Hall. Date: 1920s Image ID DIS2004_EME_071 |
19. The Bungalows, Sunny Beach, East Mersea. This became known as Coopers Beach. The chalets were replaced by caravans by 2000. Date: 1950s Image ID DIS2004_EME_074 |
20. Cosway's Caravan Site in East Mersea was developed in the 1950s. Date: 1950s Image ID DIS2004_EME_081 |
21. Golf House, East Mersea. It was erected in 1910 when the first 10 holes of the golf course were developed. Postcard 101906. Image ID DIS2004_EME_094 |
22. Kiddiesland. Date: 1959 Image ID DIS2004_EME_111 |
23. East Mersea School House and School Hall. It is said that the clock on the front wall remained totally un-reliable until moved to another location. Image ID DIS2004_EME_112 |
24. Penfold's DIY, Barfield Road, West Mersea, formerly Clifford White Builders.
At the height of the blaze 5 fire appliances and an aerial ladder from Colchester ... Date: 20 April 1999 Image ID DIS2006_FIR_N07 |
25. West Mersea Fire Brigade - crew of 2004.
Left to right Back row Robert Dean, lan Moncur, Nigel Balls
Middle row Mick James, Maurice Board, Gary ... Date: 2004 Image ID DIS2006_FIR_N16 |
26. Women's Land Army poster. Date: c1940 Image ID DIS2008_WLA_109 |
27. Women's Land Army poster. Date: c1940 Image ID DIS2008_WLA_110 |
28. Women's Land Army poster. Date: c1940 Image ID DIS2008_WLA_111 |
29. Ruby Tucker née Balls in Women's Land Army uniform. Image ID DIS2008_WLA_120 |
30. Margaret Penfold drove a milk delivery van in the Halstead area while in the Women's Land Army. Cream Line Dairy, Chelmsford.
Accession No. 2016-10-003F Date: cSeptember 1943 Image ID DIS2008_WLA_121 |