31. The Way We Were. Gazette 20 September 1976
Remember the first omnibus ?
Mr Stanley Berry interviewed. "That was our first bus - an old Da ... Date: 20 September 1976 Image ID BJ48_028_001 |
32. Old Morris Cowley PU9044 and Austin Somerset cars in Barfield Road. Digby's shop in background. Image ID BJ57_055_005 |
33. Whiting's Travelling - Bedford Dormobile WVW157 standing outside Underwood's Garage. WVW registrations were issued in Essex February to July 1953. Date: cJuly 1953 Image ID BJ57_091_001 |
34. A.J. Pavey Dairyman UVX161. DHK909 in front. East Road, by the junction with Suffolk Avenue ? Image ID BJ60_022_034 |
35. Thames Trader 317UVW belonging to Albert Carter (Produce) Ltd, Stratford Market. Outside Underwood's Garage, West Mersea. Date: 1961 Image ID BJ60_023_004 |
36. Thames Trader lorry 317UVW belonging to Albert Carter (Produce) Ltd, Stratford Market. Outside Underwood's Garage, West Mersea. The tax disk is Jan 62. ... Date: c1960 Image ID BJ60_023_005 |
37. Commer lorry GFH843 belonging to W.E. Moore & Son, Plant Hire. Outside Underwood's Garage, West Mersea Date: c1960 Image ID BJ60_023_051 |
38. The Strood at high tide. The lorry we are followingis XNO374. Date: c1960 Image ID BJ60_026_035 |
39. Commer lorry 83F at Underwoods Garage, West Mersea, belonging to J.P. Neale, Agricultural Merchant, 66 London Road, Lexden. Image ID BJ61_007_035 |
40. Deutz lorry REV265D Thames lorry DWC974B. J.W. Whiting Coal and Haulage Contractor, West Mersea. Date: c1966 Image ID BJ62_029_025 |
41. Brightlingsea, Essex. In the early morning sprats are unloaded from the smacks, in casks, rowed ashore and then conveyed by lorry to the markets. Norfolk's ... Date: After August 1934 Image ID BOXD_001_001_001 |
42. The Square and Church, Tollesbury. Postcard from Bell's No. 2067.
Osborne's Bedford Duple buses HG5343 and GVW591.
HG 5343 was bought second-hand January ... Date: 1950s Image ID CG10_015 |
43. The Cycle Stores, Tollesbury.
Taken in 1914, when George Fisher the owner, sold perambulators, accessories, cycles, motorcycles and petrol, as well as ... Date: 1914 Image ID CG10_413 |
44. FASHODA, when the train first ran to Tollesbury. Postcard, not mailed.
The opening of the Tollesbury Railway - locomotive is FASHODA.
An Essex County ... Date: 23 May 1904 Image ID CG17_001 |
45. Waiting for the train at Tollesbury. Postcard by T. Hammond, Great Totham, not mailed.
Used in Tollesbury Past, photo 37. Date: c1910 Image ID CG17_009 |
46. The Crab and Winkle Railway.
Tollesbury Station. Taken a few days after the official opening on 1st October. The covered van, three open wagons and brake ... Date: October 1904 Image ID CG17_023 |
47. Station and waterworks, Tollesbury. Postcard by H.S. White, High Street, Tollesbury, not mailed.
The water tower was erected in 1914. Date: After 1914 Image ID CG17_027 |
48. Railway - Looking towards the Pier, Tollesbury. Postcard 126388, not mailed. Date: c1932 Image ID CG17_031 |
49. Station Road, Tollesbury. Dated as 1951 by D.J. Gurton, but the loco is LNER 7161. This J67 was renumber 8608 September 1946 and renumbered again to 68608 ... Date: Before September 1946 Image ID CG17_047 |
50. The Square, Tollesbury. Osborne's bus waiting with a Witham service, JVX806, a Bedford with a Duple wartime utility body, including wooden slatted seats. JVX ... Date: 1950s Image ID CG2_045 |
51. G.W. Osborne proudly sits in his new horse drawn carrier cart which had full length seats each side for potential passengers.
Caption from back of ... Date: Before 1919 Image ID CG3_025 |
52. Carnival procession in Barfield Road. The left lorry is Austin KNO204 - the board on the radiator is Mersea Island British Legion Branch. On the side it ... Date: c1950 Image ID CMW_VAR_005 |
53. West Mersea School, with one of Berry's buses going up Barfield Road.
Owen Fletcher wrote:
"According to my mother, the gate to the left in the school ... Image ID CW3_015 |
54. Great Eastern Railway bus outside West Mersea Church. Another copy of this postcard was mailed July 1908. Date: Before July 1908 Image ID CW5_057 |
55. Eastern National bus going through the water at the Strood, in the days when bus services were not curtailed by the high tide. Ford Anglia Estate behind it ? Date: 1958 Image ID DBO_013 |
56. Eastern National bus in the ditch near Bonners Barn. She had been blown over by the wind. XHK23... [Bristol VR fleet number 3127 XHK232X] Date: 25 January 1990 Image ID DBO_111 |
57. Digby's 1926 Austin Chummy TW6307. It was used to deliver paraffin on the island for many years, and dropped out of use in the late 1940s. When Digby's closed ... Image ID DCR_001_001 |
58. Digby's 1926 Austin Chummy TW6307, restored by David O'Connor. The car returned to Mersea as a special guest for the 2015 Lions Transport Show on 8 August 2015. Date: c2015 Image ID DCR_031 |
59. Robert Underwood in 1927.
Here seen sitting on one of his carts nicknamed 'The Rocket' when he was 80 years old. The bugle was used as a signal to ... Date: 1927 Image ID DIS2003_EMF_062 |
60. Margaret Penfold drove a milk delivery van in the Halstead area while in the Women's Land Army. Cream Line Dairy, Chelmsford.
Accession No. 2016-10-003F Date: cSeptember 1943 Image ID DIS2008_WLA_121 |