121. Looking across St. Peter's Meadow to the beach and fisherman's hard, from Coast Road. Hove Creek comes in bottom right. There is a line of barbed wire just ...
Date: c1943
Image ID MMC_P452

122. West Mersea beach. The diving board can be seen - it was off the end of Alexandra Avenue and lasted until WW2.
Date: c1932
Image ID MMC_P753_A_008

123. Orleans Cottage, West Mersea, with the church beyond. Kings Hard in the foreground.

W.H. Tilston's Series postcard.
Image ID MMC_P755_067

124. Mersea Beach
Image ID MMC_P755_072

125. Mersea beach. PG2_087 is the same picture, less heavily cropped.
Image ID MMC_P755_074

126. The Monkey Beach, West Mersea. Another copy of this postcard is postmarked 14 August 1908.
Date: Before August 1908
Image ID MMC_P755_092

127. Beach at the bottom of Seaview Avenue. The house on the right is Shameen, later Brazil House.
Postcard thought to be by Hammond, which would date it around ...
Date: c1911
Image ID MMC_P755_137

128. The Beach looking towards Seaview Avenue. Postcard 84662.
Image ID MMC_P755_140

129. Beach - 1950s ?
Date: c1955
Image ID MMC_P762_O

130. Buzz'n from the Monkey Steps
Image ID MMC_P870_H

131. Beach Tea Gardens - West Mersea. The sign on the fence says The Garden Cafe. This later became the Spinney Cafe.
The Garden Cafe, along with 10 beach huts, ...
Date: c1952
Image ID MMC_P870_J

132. Type of Beach Hut approved by West Mersea Urban District Council for erection on West Mersea Greensward. Post WW2 ?
Date: c1946
Image ID MMO_009

133. Dorothy and David Mussett - on the beach at Mersea.
From David Mussett photo album.
Image ID MST_FAM_123

134. Infant School treat. See ...
Date: c1908
Image ID MST_OPA_065

135. Aerial view - Shears Crescent and Shears Court flats - site of the boating lake. World War 2 pillbox in the centre of the beach.
Date: 1970s
Image ID OZO_033

136. 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
Image ID PAT_1986_SCH_151

137. 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
Image ID PAT_1986_SCH_153

138. 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
Image ID PAT_1986_SCH_155

139. 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
Image ID PAT_1986_SCH_201

140. High Tide, West Mersea. Postcard No.17.
Image ID PG2_023

141. Boating Lake, West Mersea.
Image ID PG2_059

142. West Mersea Beach. Postcard 98752 mailed 20 July 1926.
Date: Before July 1926
Image ID PG2_081

143. The beach, titled The Esplanade, West Mersea. Postcard by E T W Dennis, mailed 31 August 1921
Date: Before August 1921
Image ID PG2_085

144. The Beach, West Mersea. Postcard 9133.
Image ID PG2_103

145. The Beach, West Mersea. This is taken by the Monkey Steps and the wall is the wall in front of Orleans. The wall was later plastered. The name Esplanade on the ...
Image ID PG2_111

146. Sheel Island - West Mersea. Trippers and beach brigs. Postcard. Another postcard with this view was mailed 19 September 1931
Date: Before September 1931
Image ID PG2_243

147. The Sea Front, West Mersea. Lilywhite postcard WM7, mailed 17 September 1931, addressed to Miss Muriel Smith, Norbury.
Date: Before August 1931
Image ID PG2_269

148. Shears Meadow looking west. Before the boating lake development. Postcard mailed 4 September 1929.
Date: Before September 1929
Image ID PG2_305

149. Off Mersea Island. Postcard mailed 19 September 1931 to Miss Muriel Smith, Norbury. Another postcard titled Sheel Island has the same photograph but no ...
Date: Before September 1931
Image ID PG2_323

150. Along the Beach, West Mersea. By the Monkey Steps. Postcard mailed 16 July 1915.
Date: Before July 1915
Image ID PG2_339