The Way We Were. Gazette 20 September 1976

Remember the first omnibus ?
Mr Stanley Berry interviewed. "That was our first bus - an old Daimler" says Mr Stanley Berry, whose family business lasted from 1904 to 1937 when they sold out to Eastern National.
"the bus ran to Mersea from the old Fleece Hotel (now pulled down) in Head Street, Colchester, and later from outside the Hippodrome in High Street."

Magnificent women in a liberty boat just doing their own thing.
Miss Arnot Robnertson 23 and Miss D. Durrant 26 of West Mersea have returned home after sailing to Calais in a ten-ton yacht...
"They had hired the cutter ...
"We came back fearfully sunburnt and fearfully dirty, but it was worth it.

From Essex County Standard 18 September 1926
Date: 20 September 1976