1. West Mersea School Poultry int. - built 1933. Buildings such as this were constructed by the pupils, as part of Mr Toombs' progressive programme of practical ...
Date: c1933
Image ID LH10_008

2. West Mersea School - surveying.
Date: c1930
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3. West Mersea School - recording the weather. Maurice Jay on the left, Len Appleby on the right.
View looking south "Kingsland" [House] distant right.
Date: c1930
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4. West Mersea School - chick rearing. Connie Smith, Joan Mole, Eva Harmer - Eleanor Geddes
The house in the background is on Barfield Road, next door to the ...
Date: c1930
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5. West Mersea School garden - Orchard and Apiary. This is towards the north end of the various school grounds of the time, near Upland Road. The house in the ...
Date: c1930
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6. West Mersea School garden. Beekeeping.
Jack Hutchins, Maurice Jay, Claude Mole, Jack Heard.
Date: 1929
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7. West Mersea School garden. Spring 1927.
Date: cApril 1927
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8. West Mersea School garden. Probably looking NorthEast with pair of houses in Kingsland Road. If so it would be before Phil Underwoods house was built in the ...
Date: 1933
Image ID LH11_101

9. West Mersea School - the pond. Filled in 2011.
Looking North before flag pole was erected. The hedge is still in place with Youth Field behind [RG].
Date: 1933
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10. West Mersea School classroom, in the old school building at the western end of the school. Weather observations on the wall. Electric lights have arrived ...
Date: 1933
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11. West Mersea School old school building - western end.
Drawings of plants, stuffed birds, chart showing barometric pressure, barometer, Weather Observation ...
Date: 1933
Image ID LH11_111

12. Football at West Mersea School.
Ian Reilly emailed: The picture is of me taking a throw in. I think we were playing for the Bomb Shell Trophy, which was ...
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13. Football at West Mersea School.
Back L-R 1. Mr Hucklesby, 2. Gary Mussett, 3. ?, 4. Christian Woodley, 5. Mark Skinner (goalie), 6. James Austin, 7. Ian ...
Date: 1974
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14. Football at West Mersea School. Mr Hucklesby on the left.
Front L-R ?, ?, Stuart Devonish, ?
Date: 1974
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15. West Mersea School sports.
Fathers Sack Race. 3rd from left in Dark blazer and dog collar, Rev. Reginald East, 2 to right Mr Mussett? Oyster merchant, ...
Date: 1950s
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16. High tide at the bottom of the Lane. Old Victory in the background. Punt.
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17. Waiting for the tide at the Strood. Clifford White's lorries on the right.

Ron Green writes about Clifford White's lorries:
I guess I'm one of ...
Date: 1930s
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18. Houseboat at West Mersea after the Great Flood of 1953.
Date: cFebruary 1953
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19. On the Schoolf Field
Back row Ann Harvey and Margaret Salter. Front Row Dorothy Carter (married David Mussett), Rose Carter (married Len Harvey), Madge ...
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20. John and Janet Mussett [RG].
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21. West Mersea Fire Brigade. This engine was probably a Merryweather. It was bought by public subscription through local fetes, dances etc.
Back row Drummer ...
Date: c1938
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22. Mersea Firemen parade in Barfield Road, Wings for Victory Week World War 2 Mersea Firemen Victory Parade Names.
L-R Alan Lee, Cliff Smith, Chippy Pullen ...
Date: 25 May 1943
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23. West Mersea Firemen. Herbert Burgess, Gordon Mussett, Edgar Jopson, Ernie Dixon.
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24. Beetle back Dodge Fire Engine 758JNO attending a fire in Jack Botham's kitchen in Coast Road. Howard's Stores in Church Road is in the background.
Date: 1959
Image ID LH17_FIRE_072

25. West Mersea Firemen with Dodge fire engine 758JNO outside Melrose Road Fire Station.
L-R Oscar Whiting, Arthur Mills, Len Cole, Harold Cutts, Jim Mussett, ...
Date: 1956
Image ID LH17_FIRE_073

26. Essex County Telegraph 6 August 1932
Mersea, Colchester and District Transport and Bus Co., Ltd. Time table.
West Mersea news - British Legion, ...
Date: 6 August 1932
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27. Golf Clubs at Home - Mersea Island, Essex. From The Bystander, 23 September 1936
Date: 1936
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28. Percy Green tentatively holding the propeller. The plane belongs to Mr Witham, a Fenland farmer who used to fly down to Mersea to his yacht. The picture is ...
Date: c1933
Image ID LH17_MER_031

29. Upland Road - the Water Tower on fire. Bob Atkins looking back [RG].
Date: 9 May 1931
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30. West Mersea School - demolition of the canteen, watched by the pupils. Kingsland Road outside the school gates.
Date: 1988
Image ID LH18_009