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2010 at Mersea Museum

Resource Centre

A significant extension to the museum. Browse the Museum's digital collection of photographs, oral history and film.
13,000 images, 200 hours of audio and oral history.

Click extension to see more about the building of the Resource Centre.

Exhibitions - 'Odd' Objects

The ENDEAVOUR tow rope

Our object in the BBC History of the World project is a pieces of the tow rope that broke in the Atlantic in 1937, leaving the yacht to sail back to England. She had a crew with several local people on board, with Captain Ted Heard from Tollesbury, and was missing for several days.
Photographs of ENDEAVOUR and newspaper cuttings from the time.

Farming

Horse overshoes, sickle, flail, hay cutter, shepherd's crook...

Mersea Businesses

Book keeping machine, Telephone Exchange Subscriber's Line Unit, Cash Register, Magnetic Card Machine, cheque making machine...

The Parish Church

16th Century Chest, old clock face, chancel gates, lantern...

World War 2

Spitfire model, gas mask, ARP hat, wartime books, machine gun, incendiaries, uniform...

Medical

Heart massager, dentist's drill, other mysterious instruments.

Audio Visual slideshow

A new slideshow for 2010 - "Then and Now". Old photographs of Mersea and the same scene in 2009.

Broken tow rope from ENDEAVOUR 1937
 
Underwood's bus fleet the day before it was taken over by Eastern National
 
Queen's Corner - from Then and Now slide show
 
Farming implements
In the Cornfields - harvest.
 
West Mersea Parish Church in the days it was lit by oil lamps
 
Mersea's 1944 NFS Fire Engine outside the Melrose Road Fire Station
 
1914 nurse and medical display
 
Office equipment

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