1. Earthquake 1884. Went's Mill, Peldon.
From left, Peldon Steam Mill, Windmill and Peldon Mill House damaged by the "Colchester Earthquake" of 22 April 1884 ...
Date: cMay 1884
Image ID ALS_C20_063

2. The Zeppelin at Little Wigborough - some of the Special Constables involved in arresting the German crew.
From left, Olive Dansie (daughter of Edgar Dansie ...
Date: cOctober 1916
Image ID ALS_ZEP_001

3. Private Alfred George Baldwin
No. 25386
9th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment)
Killed in action in France 24th March 1918 aged ...
Date: 24 March 1918
Image ID ARB_AGB_001

4. Private Arthur George Whiting No. 260181.
1st & 8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
Killed in action in Belgium 27 August 1917 aged 19 ...
Date: 27 August 1917
Image ID ARB_AGW_001

5. Abberton Reservoir expansion project
the story so far
Essex and Suffolk Water
Date: June 1994
Image ID ARV_BK1_001

6. Gwendoline and Edward Harding outside their home - Strood Close, The Strood, Peldon. They named the house Strood Close. They had bought the house from ...
Date: 1950s
Image ID AW02_003

7. Smack KATE. Built 1883, registered at times as MN81, CK139, CK52. Photograph at Peldon.
Date: 1970
Image ID CML_007

8. Smacks at Peldon. The nearest is SHAMROCK.
Date: 1971
Image ID CML_013

9. S.C. White, Draper and Grocer's shop. Peldon
Edgar Charles Dansie and Leonard Dansie ?
Date: Before 1916
Image ID CMW_BDG_003

10. The Church, Peldon. Postcard by S.C. White, West Mersea, not used.
Image ID CW5_103

11. Harry Ponder. Harry lived in Hillside Cottage, Church Road, Peldon, and worked at either Copt Hall or Abbott's Wick farm. Born c1882.
Date: 1907
Image ID DEP_051

12. Land Girls Edna Smy née Dallas, Rose, Emmy, Bunny Webb or Bunny Reynolds (tractor driver) working near Peldon Rose 1942
Date: 1942
Image ID DIS2008_WLA_129

13. Edna Smy née Dallas. Peldon Hostel 1941. Women's Land Army.
Date: 1941
Image ID DIS2008_WLA_130

14. Under the Plough - for the first time in history, Pete Tye Common lying between Peldon and Abberton has come under the plough.

Death of Miss A.M. ...
Date: 6 June 1942
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15. Peldon. The wedding took place at the church on Monday of Miss Alice Mary Frost, third daughter of Mr & Mrs W. Frost of Peldon, with Mr Ernest Arthur Poole, ...
Date: 9 June 1933
Image ID ECR_1933_NOV09_001

16. Manorial Rolls Part III Pete Hall Manor.
Essex Review 1942 page 90.
Date: July 1942
Image ID ERV_1942_090

17. History of the Bean Family

Sir Walter Ogilvie married Lady Mary Douglas a daughter of the Earl of Morton
Their daughter Mary< ...
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18. History of the Bean Family Page 9.

[ Children of Alexander and Anne Bean contd ]
4. Willoughby born 19 June 1772, died at 8, Sydney Place Ba ...
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19. History of the Bean Family 15.
[ Burton family contd. ]

8th and 9th Twins Edwin John and Harriet Emma, born 19 Nov 1802. The boy died of fever 15 ...
Image ID FBN_033

20. History of the Bean Family opposite page 22. [ Alexander Bean contd. ]
My father was enrolled as a special Constable during the Chartist Riots in London: ...
Image ID FBN_046

21. History of the Bean Family opposite page 23.
[ Sons and daughters of Aleander and Eliza Henrietta Bean contd. ]

8. Catherine Frances Bean born 11 ...
Image ID FBN_048

22. History of the Bean Family opposite page 32.
£29,000 left by Mersea man. Mr Henry Bean of Donibee, Empress Avenue, died on 9 May aged 74. Mr Bean was ...
Image ID FBN_066

23. History of the Bean Family page 34.
[ wives of Henry John May contd ]

4th wife Mrs Green, a widow with 8 children, two of whom were Daniel and ...
Image ID FBN_071

24. History of the Bean Family opposite page 37

Extract Continued

Thomas May's who is Lord of the Manor of Mersea & takes the great tithes, ...
Image ID FBN_076

25. Bean Family History by Willoughby John Bean
When S.E. Bean married [1808] his friend Billy Newman was agent for W. Quincey and he turned over to S.E. Bean ...
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26. Bean Family History by Willoughby John Bean
[S.E. Bean contd.]
and I expect he saw that the army was no use without spending money in addition to pay, ...
Image ID FBP_042

27. Peldon Plough Darts Team. Abberton Peldon District Champions.
L-R Some of the names: Jim Shepperd, Ken Warren, Alfred 'Glen' Glendenning (with glasses - ...
Image ID FL02_030_001

28. Moor Farm, Colchester Road, Peldon. At one time up to 500 Indian Runner Ducks were kept on the pond. It is now filled in.
Image ID FL03_012_001

29. Hunt meet outside Peldon Rose. On the right talking are Pearl Cross from Waldegraves Farm West Mersea and Edward Martin from Moor Farm Peldon.
From Album ...
Date: Before 1940
Image ID FL03_016_001

30. GIGANTIC RESERVOIR SCHEME

Three-Mile Lake Will Transform Colchester Country-side

ONE OF THE LARGEST IN SOUTH OF ENGLAND

Farms & ...
Date: 12 December 1934
Image ID GAZ_1934_DEC12_001