91. Mum Alice Hewes and daughter Betty, Back row, 2nd lot in. Charabanc trip. Image ID HAY_HEB_090 |
92. Above rear wheel, Betty Hewes & Mum (Alice) squeezed behind. Sunday school outing, on Mersea bus.
PA1_HEWG_PIC01 is the same picture, with the caption ... Image ID HAY_HEW_012 |
93. Memories of Christmas past. Sybil Brand recalls the days when Christmas shopping meant a trip to Colchester in the carrier's cart.
Essex County ... Date: 1968 Image ID HH01_003_001 |
94. Bus outside the White Hart, West Mersea. Number is ??3746.
Is it Bertie Wright on the right, who was described as a 'carman' when he married in 1929. Image ID HH06_653 |
95. Barge GOLDEN FLEECE unloading timber on Mersea Hard. The lorries are ex-Army World War I lorries with solid tyres.
The left lorry NO1671 is from Clifford ... Date: 1921 Image ID IA002310 |
96. Winning Through! The Strood, a road leaving over a creek of the River Blackwater from the mainland to Mersea Island is almost impassable at high tide. An ... Date: c1930 Image ID IA004481 |
97. 1924 Delage car being restored by Brian South. The car was owned by Brian's grandfather Charles Pavey of West Mersea from 1927 to 1960. Date: c2010 Image ID IA004483 |
98. Peldon Rose. Postcard mailed October 1906.
The picture appears in "Motor Buses in East Anglia 1901-1931" by D.E. Brewster, 1974, with the ... Date: 1905 Image ID IA004901 |
99. The Eastern National Bus Station in West Mersea High Street. Bristol Lodekka 75JNO on the right. Hines estate agents on the left. Image ID IA01_381 |
100. Early bus, taxi and charabanc outside the White Hart in Mersea. The fleet is thought to have been owned by the White Hart.
Postcard sent to Miss M.E. Went, ... Date: c1914 Image ID JAY_BUS_001 |
101. Primrose Bus rounding Hyde Park Corner at the top of St Ives Hill, Peldon. Postcard was mailed from Peldon on 29th August 1922. Date: Before August 1922 Image ID JAY_BUS_051 |
102. Great Eastern Railway. Motor omnibuses between Colchester Station and West Mersea. Commencing 1 September 1905. Date: 1 September 1905 Image ID JAY_EDW_085 |
103. Eastern National double decker bus DEV477 crossing the Strood, West Mersea, at high tide. 75 service to West Mersea via Abberton and Blackheath.
... Date: 1962 Image ID JAY_ENO_003 |
104. Reg Sales with Fred Smith's baker's cart. Image ID JAY_MIS_011 |
105. "The milk must be collected". Milk tanker crossing the Strood - a Thames Trader.
At this time, there are thought to have been dairy herds at Bromans Farm, ... Date: December 1963 Image ID JBT_001_001 |
106. George Smith Senior's dark horse is called "Blacky" No date but would have to be before 1914 when he had a bad accident smashing his ankle poor Blacky had to be ... Date: Before 1914 Image ID JDV_001 |
107. The Mersea, Colchester & District Transport & Bus Co., Ltd. [Primrose Buses]
Letter To all whom it may concern
This is certify that George Smith of ... Date: 8 March 1926 Image ID JDV_GSS_003 |
108. Fred Smith's bakers cart, outside Munson Cook's late 1920s. Sid Mole, and Nathan 'Din' Hoy. Date: c1929 Image ID JHY_115 |
109. Underwood's Bedford bus. Jenny Mills in front on the left. Image ID JML_OPA_043 |
110. White Hart Darts Club outing to Felixstowe - or Gt Yarmouth with an Underwoods coach.
Names adults L-R 1. Ernie Hempstead, 2. Hector Hewes, 3. Doug and ... Image ID JML_OPA_045 |
111. Cooperative Society Ltd. Image ID JML_OPA_049 |
112. Thorp's Reliance Coaches, West Mersea, Essex
Time Table.
Phone West Mersea 100
Image via Alan Skinner. Sent as Thorpe Timetable 7.2cm x ... Date: c1935 Image ID JRT_THP_001 |
113. Thorp's Reliance Coaches Time-Table
West Mersea - Colchester Route.
Connections to London trains at Colchester. Date: c1935 Image ID JRT_THP_002 |
114. Not identified, but possibly the car of Mr Hoblyn who lived at Orleans, West Mersea 1921 - 1931.
F2860 ? Date: c1930 Image ID KBC_005 |
115. Chalet at Coopers Beach, East Mersea. The chalet has the name "Spray Cabin".
Ford Zephyr 258PNO - PNO registrations were first issued April ... Date: c1960 Image ID KBC_021 |
116. High tide at the Strood. One Eastern National bus coming through and another waiting to go.
The bus on the right is one of a series that had new bodies ... Date: After April 1949 Image ID KBC_051 |
117. Cars and buses crossing the Strood at High Tide.
BHV971
Morris Minor OPU120 - OPU registrations were first used April 1949.
A negative from Bill ... Date: After April 1949 Image ID KBC_055 |
118. Kelly's Directory 1910 Page 393. East Mersea, West Mersea.
East Mersea
Public Elementary School (mixed) built in 1860, for 70 children, average at ... Date: 1910 Image ID KEL_1910_393 |
119. Ken Mole. Mersea Island Removals. Image ID KML_003 |
120. Morris Eight BXF483 belonging to Ken Mole, Morris Eight ST9454 belonging to Hugh Farthing Image ID KML_029 |