| Title | St Johns Green School visit to Mersea |
| Abstract | Pictures from a visit to West Mersea by the Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
The group stopped at the Strood, visited Mersea Museum and the Church. They had a picnic on the beach and found St Peter's Well before visiting the Lifeboat Station.
On return, the children all wrote letters describing their visit - letters were printed on the BBC Computer.
Teacher Mrs Steadman and Pat Kirby were with the group - pictures by Pat Kirby who also taught at the school.
There are also some photographs from a visit by another group to the Lifeboat Station. |
| Author | Pat Kirby |
| Published | c17 June 1986
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| Source | Mersea Museum
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| ID | PAT_1986_SCH
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_001 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester. Mrs Steadman, teacher.
First we stopped at the Strood. The water was coming in. We got cut off by the tide. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_003 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
First we stopped at the Strood. The water was coming in. We got cut off by the tide. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_005 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
Wildfowler's punt - for shooting ducks and geese. It has a flat bottom. It has a long gun. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_009 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
Wildfowler's punt - for shooting ducks and geese. It has a flat bottom. It has a long gun. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_027 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
Bottles from an old drug store - chemists. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_033 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
Some old engines | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_035 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
The vibrator for pains | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_037 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
Myrddin Davies shows the visitors the vibrator for pains | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_075 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea Museum by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
An old kitchen. The maid did the work. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_103 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
Mr Millatt showed us the church. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_151 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
"We hunted for St Peter's Well. It was hidden in the reeds. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_153 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
"We hunted for St Peter's Well. It was hidden in the reeds. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_155 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
"We hunted for St Peter's Well. It was hidden in the reeds. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_201 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
"We had our picnic on the beach. It was fun. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_251 | | Title: | Visit to Mersea by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
Sitting on the green outside the lifeboat shed.
Coast Road - CK355 on Clarke & Carter's slipway. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_253 | | Title: | Visit to West Mersea Lifeboat by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester.
The Lifeboat is an inflatable boat and a new one will cost nearly £30,000. This is lifeboat B-529 ALEXANDER DUCKHAM. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_263 | | Title: | Visit to West Mersea Lifeboat by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
The Lifeboat has two engines at the back. There is an inflatable bag at the back in case the boat capsizes. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_267 | | Title: | Visit to West Mersea Lifeboat by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
This is where the driver sits. Look at the steering wheel.
Lifeboat B-529 ALEXANDER DUCKHAM | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_269 | | Title: | Visit to West Mersea Lifeboat by Literacy Support Centre, St John's Green School, Colchester
We bought things from the lifeboat shed. Mr Crossley gave us a poster. We sat outside with it.
CK214 on hard. | | Date: | c17 June 1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_303 | | Title: | A visit to West Mersea Lifeboat Station.
Tony Purnell talking to a group outside the shed
For the first two years of its life, the Lifeboat was kept in the open in Clarke & Carter's yard. Then (about 1965) Paddy Hare offered the RNLI the use of a shed (formerly used as a store by the Army Sailing Association) as a boathouse, and this was the Lifeboat Station until 1992.
| | Date: | c1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_309 | | Title: | A visit to West Mersea Lifeboat Station.
The twin engines. Tony Purnell talking to the visitors. | | Date: | c1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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| ImageID: | PAT_1986_SCH_319 | | Title: | A visit to West Mersea Lifeboat Station.
The maroon calls the men out.
Tony Purnell talking to the visitors. | | Date: | c1986 | | Source: | Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby |
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