61. Zeppelin L33 - which crashed Little Wigborough 24 September 1916.
Date: 24 September 1916
Image ID BJ28_009

62. Zeppelin L33 - which crashed Little Wigborough 24 September 1916.
Date: c24 September 1916
Image ID BJ28_011

63. Illustrated War News 4 October 1916. The best way to deal with Zeppelins.
Date: 4 October 1916
Image ID BJ28_013

64. Zeppelin L33 - which crashed Little Wigborough 24 September 1916.
Date: 24 September 1916
Image ID BJ28_015

65. County of Essex Air Raid Precautions
This is to certeify that Mrs Ettie V.M. Thorp The Cedars High St. Noth. West Mersea has been duly appointed as an Air ...
Date: 7 October 1942
Image ID BJ44_001_001

66. Light-hearted side to Dad's Army activities.

During the latter part of the war the Home Guard manned the two big guns on the sea front.

At the ...
Image ID BJ44_003_003

67. A full car park along Victoria Esplanade in the early 1950s.
Wartime Mersea folder. The concrete pill box can be seen behind the first few cars in the car ...
Date: c1952
Image ID BJ44_013_001

68. Over-Seas League Empire Day 1941.
This is to certify that John Smith has helped to provide ...

Probably J.V. Smith of 2 Water Terrace, Abberton, as ...
Date: 24 May 1941
Image ID BJ44_019_001

69. NALON sinking. She was bombed and sunk 6 November 1940 to the West of Ireland, on a voyage Beira to Glasgow. A near miss had blown in the plates at No.3 Hold ...
Image ID BJ52_004_001

70. Essex at War, compiled by the Editorial Staff of Essex County Standard and edited by Hervey Benham.
There is also a copy of this in Hervey Benham cupboard ...
Date: 1945
Image ID BOX005_009_C001

71. Girls of the Royal Observer Corps 18 group inspected by Air-Commodore Finlay Crerar, CBE (Commandant R.O.C.) at Birch aerodrome, on stand-down.

From ...
Date: July 1945
Image ID BOX005_009_P105

72. Women's Institute jam-makers at Birch.

From Essex at War by Hervey Benham, page 121.

This is in the kitchen at Birch Hall. See ...
Date: cDecember 1940
Image ID BOX005_009_P121

73. The oysterman George Stoker of West Mersea before the 'offoce' of the Stags Head Oyster Fishery Company. A wartime picture - there is barbed wire in the ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1943
Image ID BOXB3_125_001_001

74. Passed by Technical Reproduction Branch 18 Dec 1942. No Admiralty Objection to publication, signed, Captain R.N. Wivenhoe. [from back of photograph]
Wooden ...
Date: 18 Dec 1942
Image ID BOXB5_014_001

75. FY PT 1011 just afloat at Wivenhoe. The yard boat stands by to help with mooring ropes and later in removal of sliding ways, poppets and other timber structure ...
Image ID BOXB5_014_022

76. MMS 1012 [on back of photograph]
FY PT 1012 leaves the river Colne after completion and commissioning in 1943. The harbour party and an officer are ...
Date: c15 October 1943
Image ID BOXB5_014_024

77. A quiet interlude during war. Wooden motor minesweeper FY PT 1044 is towed to the fitting out berth after launch from Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd., in 1943. The river ...
Date: 30 December 1943
Image ID BOXB5_014_026

78. During the War at Wivenhoe. Part of "Mulberry" in the making on the River Colne. [DW]

The projected invasion of Normandy in June 1944 needed the ...
Image ID BOXB5_014_028

79. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2. The boat belongs to Derek 'Dink' Ball. Ashley Upsher in orange ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_001

80. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2. The engine was brought up first. The Napier Sabre engine was sold ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_005

81. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2. A section of the wing resting on the mud. The conger eel was ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_019

82. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2.
Letter from Ministry of Defence to M.D. Lungley, 68 St ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_031

83. Colchester Diving Club. Rolls Royce Merlin engine from a Mosquito, recovered near the Molliette beacon.
Divers L-R are Richard Neal, Bob Leeds, 'Dink@ ...
Date: c1972
Image ID CDC_TYP_107

84. Field Service Post card to Miss Ivy Hoy, St Peter Cottage, West Mersea
From her brother Charles David Hoy.
Date: 20 August 1917
Image ID CDH_011_001

85. Miss Ivy Hoy, Haycock Farm, East Mersea.
Letter from Ivy Hoy from Charles David Hoy
Date: 12 September 1917
Image ID CDH_013_001

86. Letter from Charles David Hoy to Ivy Hoy. Page 1.

Dear Sister,
Many thanks for your loving letter which I received quite safe and I was pleased ...
Date: 12 September 1917
Image ID CDH_013_003

87. Letter from Charles David 'Charlie' Hoy to Ivy Hoy. Page 2.

Contd...
but my time will soon be up I with it last six months I want to get a first ...
Date: 12 September 1917
Image ID CDH_013_005

88. Barfield Road Cemetery Plot 82.
Dear Husband Robert Charles Cudmore who died 24 October 1933 aged 57 years
Also of his dear wife Ruth Cudmore who died ...
Date: 19 September 2019
Image ID CEM_BFD_0082_001

89. In Loving Memory of My Dear Wife
NORAH AGNES TALES
who passed away 14 November 1928 aged 37 years
Also Flight-Sergt JAMES TALES, R.A.F., son of ...
Date: 11 November 2019
Image ID CEM_BFD_0216_001

90. Ida Lilian Pavey Born 20 Sep 1886, died 26 May 1973
Wife and Mother
also
Ida South née Adnams
Born 1 Feb 1921 Died 24 Feb ...
Date: 21 September 2019
Image ID CEM_BFD_0489_001