| ID: EC62_10_535B / A.S. Berry
Title | Mersea Bus belonging to A.W. Berry outside White Hart, West Mersea. |
Abstract | Letter from A.S. Berry in Essex Countryside, October 1962, page 535, referring to a letter from Douglas Kitchener in an earlier Essex Countryside - EC62_AWB .
A.S. Berry was son of A.W. Berry who ran the bus service.
- the photograph was 1910 or 1911.
- the service was started in 1903 with tow Daimler 14-seater buses.
- during 1905 two Melnes Damiler thirty-six seat double deck buses were put into service and ran until about 1912 when they were replaced. It is one of these buses in the photograph
- Primrose buses did not start till 1916.
Full letter is on EC62_10_535_001 |
Author | A.S. Berry |
Published | October 1962
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Source | Mersea Museum
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ID | EC62_10_535B
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Page | 535
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ImageID: | EC62_AWB | Title: | Letter to Essex Countryside, c1962, from Douglas H. Kitchener, with old photographs. One is of a Berry's bus outside the White Hart - but see EC62_10_535B for the background to the photograph. Mr Kitchener says that the body of one of Berry's buses is still in existence in Sea View Avenue (Lower Kingsland Road) as an annex to a holiday bungalow. | Date: | c1962 | Source: | Mersea Museum |
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