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MANCHESTER RENOWN in the River Blackwater 1982. Photo: Ashley Upsher Collection
Sailing barge CLIFF loading hay on Mersea Hard. Registered Ipswich and built Ipswich 1858, probably by Bayley. Main owner J Cobbold Ipswich. Official No. 20532
1901 Managing Owner Joseph Rawlinson, Forest Gate.
18 Nov 1907 sold to James Edwards, contractor of West Mersea.
3 April 1911 foundered.
A picture from one of the slide shows run in Mersea Museum during opening hours.
From a glass plate bought by David Patient on Ebay c1908. Photo: David Patient Collection
Digby Bros. General Ironmongers.
Digbys' Corner, West Mersea
Wireless Sets
Efficient Radio Service by E.P Digby
From Digby's Tide Table 1926
Accession No. P608-3 1926.
Group of local lads on Liza's doorstep. A photo taken by the late Ted Woolf in the mid 1940s.
Cadder Mussett's shop is just visible on the right.
The names are 1. Ron Procter, 2. Hugh Maylor, 3. Dick Cudmore, 4. Ken Mole, 5. Don Proctor, 6. Johnny Hempstead, 7. Peter Vince, 8. Jimmy Simmons, 9. Derek Cranfield, 10. Gerry D'Witt, 11. Don Pullen, 12, Dennis Cook, 13. Dennis Whiting, 14. Arthur 'Bob' Milgate, 15. Burton Cook.
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See <a href=mmphoto.php?typ=ID&hit=1&tot=1&ba=cke&rhit=1&bid=RG27_313 ID=1>RG27_313 </a> for a numbered print.
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</notonweb> 1940s.
Salcott Church, before the chancel was rebuilt. 
The old chancel had been in ruins for some time. There was a major restoration 1892-93 where a new chancel was added on the old foundations. 
The last service in before restoration was 10 July 1892. The first service in the new chancel was 13 June 1893 [T.B. Millatt].
</p><p>There is a copy of the photograph in the Salcott Baptism Register 1813-1905 1892. Photo: T.B. Millatt
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