Frozen sea at Mersea, January 1940.
Photo by Howard Winch, who wrote on the back:
High tide about 12.45pm. Tide on the ebb, view from bottom of small slope of beach above water. There is no sea water visible - the snowy grey patches are frozen ice and snow floes travelling sea wards & occasionally churning up the edges of the snow pack on the shore edge.
Taken from westward of the bottom of Empress Avenue - looking S.E.
Date: 26 January 1940