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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
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Article |
East Mersea Baptist Church papers |
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ID |
CW21_007 |
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Title |
East Mersea Baptist Church papers |
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Abstract |
East Mersea Baptist Church
Pastors
James Merchant 1803-1818 died 10th December 1818
Mr Manning 1818-1824 left
Mr Jeremiah Rogers 1825-' 1867' died
Mr John Reuben Cock ' 1867'-1885 died 1885 (father Charles Cock was minister at West Mersea, Mill Road)
Mr George Frederick Smith ... |
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Author |
Carol Wyatt |
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Published |
2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Protecting the oysters 150 years ago |
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ID |
ECS_1964_APR17_A01 |
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Title |
Protecting the oysters 150 years ago |
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Abstract |
PROTECTING THE OYSTERS 150 YEARS AGO
By Sybil Brand
Another fragment of local history is brought to light and to life from the pages of an old manuscript book
A Vellum covered book, hand written, which contains the minutes and accounts of an Oyster Fishery Protection ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
When Mersea made its own amusements by Sybil Brand |
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ID |
ECS_1964_APR24_A01 |
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Title |
When Mersea made its own amusements by Sybil Brand |
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Abstract |
West Mersea made its own amusements.
Another instalment from the memories of SYBIL BRAND tells of children's recreations of the past.
We`re inclined to take a pitying look at the recreations of our parents and grandparents. No radio, no television. no buses to take them to ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Published |
24 April 1964
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Time and Tide from Essex County Standard - 1953 musings on the Strood |
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ID |
CW20_151_A01 |
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Title |
Time and Tide from Essex County Standard - 1953 musings on the Strood |
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Abstract |
TIME and TIDE
"Colchester and County Notes" give place this week to a Christmas reflection on a familiar Essex scene - the fortnightly hold-up at Mersea Strood.
"I see someone has written to "Postbag" asking why they can't make up the Strood so that it keeps itself out of the water all the ... |
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Published |
24 December 1953
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mary and Jim Cole - from Layer de la Haye to West Australia |
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ID |
CFL |
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Title |
Mary and Jim Cole - from Layer de la Haye to West Australia |
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Abstract |
Mary and Jim Cole - from Layer de la Haye to West Australia.
The following text is derived from a Word file sent by Deborah Robertson in Australia. The Word file does not format correctly and some editing has been done. Deborah has also sent us a PDF and this has different format problems.
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Author |
Deborah Robertson |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Jack Spitty - Memories of a grand old Essex sea-dog by Jack Owen |
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ID |
CW20_083_A01 |
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Title |
Jack Spitty - Memories of a grand old Essex sea-dog by Jack Owen |
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Abstract |
Memories of a grand old Essex sea-dog
by Jack Owen
These tales of one of the characters of the Essex Coast have been written by Mr Jack Owen, of West Mersea, who is now in his 74th year. His adventures with Spitty in the DAVID ELIZA would accordingly have occurred between the years 1894 and ... |
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Author |
Jack Owen |
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Published |
cMarch 1952
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Easters Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_ETR |
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Title |
Easters Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Easters Farm
While researching Rose Farm opposite the Peldon Rose I came across the name 'Easters', which appeared to be another small farm further north along the main road into Colchester, close to Langenhoe but still in Peldon. A similar acreage to Rose Farm it seems the miller and farmer, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Miss Margaret Harrison - a Fairy Godmother |
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ID |
ECS_1950_OCT27_101 |
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Title |
Miss Margaret Harrison - a Fairy Godmother |
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Abstract |
From Essex County Standard, 27 October 1950
"Fairy godmother thought of friends"
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Essex County Standard
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Article |
Yew Tree House and its Walnut Tree |
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ID |
EC82_08_A01 |
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Title |
Yew Tree House and its Walnut Tree |
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Abstract |
Yew Tree House and its Walnut tree
The author`s great grandfather bought Yew Tree House, West Mersea, with its large field in 1840, and a walnut tree reputed to be 400 years old when the tree collapsed fifty years ago.
At the end of the eighteenth century the manor of West Mersea ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Coast Road and the Hard |
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ID |
ML2025_009_052 |
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Title |
Coast Road and the Hard |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Coast Road
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
We are looking at another of Jack Botham's aerial views of West Mersea. This one is from 29 August 1965 and shows the Coast Road with Clarke & Carter's boatyard prominent in the foreground.
1. Ted Woolf's ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
September 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Rose Farm, Colchester Road, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_RFM |
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Title |
Rose Farm, Colchester Road, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Rose Farm
Rose Farm, Colchester Road, Peldon, came on the market in 2025; it was described as a modernised four-bedroom bungalow with 9 acres, multiple barns and outbuildings and 'just a stone's throw from the picturesque coastline of Mersea Island'. Originally built in the winter of 1960/1 for ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
30 August 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Onward Christian Soldier - Sabine Baring Gould by John Lea |
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ID |
EC57_12_A01 |
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Title |
Onward Christian Soldier - Sabine Baring Gould by John Lea |
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Abstract |
Onward, Christian Soldier
Sabine Baring-Gould
by John Lea
The title of this article is taken from the biography of Baring-Gould by William Purcell, a rich, rewarding book, published by Longmans in 1957. The words are at once a tribute to the man and an allusion to his well-known
hymn ... |
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Author |
John Lea |
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Published |
December 1957
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Haxells Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_HAX |
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Title |
Haxells Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Haxells Farm, Peldon
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Great Aunt Emma, by Sybil Brand |
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ID |
ECS_1964_FEB07_A01 |
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Title |
Great Aunt Emma, by Sybil Brand |
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Abstract |
Great Aunt Emma, by Sybil Brand.
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Published |
February 1964
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memories of Ivan Pullen by Geoffrey Russell-Grant |
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ID |
PUL_IVN |
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Title |
Memories of Ivan Pullen by Geoffrey Russell-Grant |
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Abstract |
Memories of Ivan Pullen by Geoff Russell-Grant February 2021
My father [William Russell-Grant] was a great friend of Ivan Pullen, and our family had a holiday bungalow at West Mersea, where a relative, Smeaton Grant, was the island doctor, though he'd retired by the time I met him.
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Author |
Geoffrey Russell-Grant |
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Published |
12 February 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea Church weather vane |
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ID |
ML2025_008_066 |
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Title |
West Mersea Church weather vane |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - West Mersea Church weather vane
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
Having seen the scaffolding on the church tower recently, it reminded me of the extensive work we did in the winter of 1951/52 when I was an apprentice working for Clifford White & Co., who had ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Keywords |
weathervane |
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Published |
August 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea's king and queen of the oyster trade |
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ID |
EC77_02_A01 |
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Title |
West Mersea's king and queen of the oyster trade |
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Abstract |
West Mersea`s king and queen of the oyster trade.
Written and illustrated by Ken Adams.
From Essex Countryside February 1977, transcribed by Joe Vince July 2025
King and Queen of the oyster industry in Great Britain must be Douglas and Marie Mussett, of West Mersea. The couple have ... |
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Author |
Ken Adams |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Priests of Mersea's Past |
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ID |
ECS_1971_FEB19_A01 |
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Title |
The Priests of Mersea's Past |
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Abstract |
The priests from Mersea`s past
Sybil Brand recalls some of the colourful characters who came to Mersea Island as vicar, curate or minister.
On the flyleaf of my Great Grandfather Thomas Brand`s Bible are the names of his nine children, seven boys and two girls, and underneath is this ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Published |
19 February 1971
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Source |
Mersea Museum / T.B. Millatt
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Article |
Jack Hoy - World War II |
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ID |
WW2_JHY |
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Title |
Jack Hoy - World War II |
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Abstract |
Jack Dorrien Hoy- World War II
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Published |
7 July 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Arthur Young's General View of Agriculture in Essex 1807 |
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ID |
TB02_001 |
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Title |
Arthur Young's General View of Agriculture in Essex 1807 |
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Abstract |
ARTHUR YOUNG'S 'General view of the agriculture of the County of Essex' drawn up for the Board of Agriculture by the Secretary in 2 volumes 1807.
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Arthur Young (1741-1820) of Bradfield Combust Hall, Suffolk - writer and agriculturist. "Creator of the literature of agriculture, ... |
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Author |
Arthur Young |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Revd Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea |
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ID |
TB01_017 |
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Title |
Revd Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea |
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Abstract |
The Revd. Thomas Ralph Musselwhite, M.A., Vicar of West Mersea
Magdalen College, Oxford. B.A. 1850
Ordained deacon, 1850, priest 1851. Curate of Aston-in-Edgmund [Aston-in-Edgmond]
Vicar of West Mersea, 1863 - 1888. Surrogate.
Married in 1867, Mary, dau of the Revd. Samuel Farman, rector ... |
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Author |
T.B. Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Priscilla Pullen by Sybil Brand |
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ID |
ECS_1972_DEC28_A01 |
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Title |
Priscilla Pullen by Sybil Brand |
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Abstract |
Priscilla Pullen the loveliest of them all, by Sybil Brand
Essex County Standard 28 December 1972
Transcribed by Joe Vince
Taking them all in all, my mother`s family, the Pullens, were a good looking lot as the family album records. Some were dark, some fair, some blue - or brown - eyed, ... |
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Author |
Sybil Brand |
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Published |
28 December 1972
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - RIIS I |
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ID |
ML2025_006_054 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - RIIS I |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - RIIS I
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
The twin screw motor yacht RIIS I has been a familiar sight at Mersea for more years than I care to remember. Sadly she will no longer be seen each winter on Peter Clarke's slip. She is one of the Dunkirk Little Ships ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
June 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Bumkin BOY GEORGE |
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ID |
BYG |
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Title |
Bumkin BOY GEORGE |
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Abstract |
The bumkin BOY GEORGE was built for George Stoker and named after his son George, who was killed 1941 when HMS VAN MEERLANT was mined. BOY GEORGE was rebuilt by John Milgate and students as part of his wooden boatbuilding course at Shell Bungalow, Peldon, in the late 1970s.
Boy George ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
INO winklebrig |
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ID |
WKB_004 |
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Title |
INO winklebrig |
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Abstract |
INO
The name Ino comes from Greek mythology and has been used to name a number of vessels. Ino was a mortal, princess of Thebes and Queen of Boeotia, who was transformed by the gods into a marine deity named Leucothea, who is the protector goddess of sailors.
INO ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wheezy Annna |
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ID |
WKB_003 |
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Title |
Wheezy Annna |
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Abstract |
Wheezy Anna
0.89grt winkle 'bumpkin' cutter. 15'.3'x5.9'x2.2'. C.1925. 23/7/1940 Fisheries number allocated CK88. Owned by Jack Mole (master), West Mersea. 12/5/1954 To Geoffrey Arthur Hempstead, West Mersea. No longer fishing. [John Collins Nottage Institute]
In the same year that ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Tolfish - a Tollesbury fishing company |
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ID |
WKB_002 |
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Title |
Tolfish - a Tollesbury fishing company |
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Abstract |
Tolfish
On 13th January 1951 in the Kings Head, Tollesbury, an association of Tollesbury men involved in spratting and shrimping voted to form their own trading company to be known as "Tolfish Ltd".
The minutes book (in the ownership of the Haward family of West Mersea) begins about 4 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
International Youth Camp Memories |
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ID |
YC70_001 |
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Title |
International Youth Camp Memories |
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Abstract |
International Camp Memories
By Bob Collins
... |
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Author |
Bob Collins |
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Published |
May 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
ICE ! - Henry John May |
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ID |
HJM_201 |
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Title |
ICE ! - Henry John May |
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Abstract |
Ice!
Henry John May - a 19th Century Entrepreneur from West Mersea
Henry John May (1802 - 1894) was an oyster merchant, a property owner, and farmer and was the son of Thomas May, Lord of the Manor of West Mersea Hall.
West ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - World War 2 |
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ID |
ML2025_005_054 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - World War 2 |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - World War 2
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
Anniversary events this month have concentrated our minds on VE day - the end of the War in Europe. Many men from this area went off to War. Some never came back and we remember them every year. Some ended up in ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Published |
May 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
William Charles Chapman - captured at El Alamein 1942 |
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ID |
WW2_WCC |
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Title |
William Charles Chapman - captured at El Alamein 1942 |
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Abstract |
William Charles Chapman
This story is not complete - if you can tell us more, please get in touch.
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Yew Tree House |
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ID |
PK52_021 |
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Title |
Yew Tree House |
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Abstract |
YEW TREE HOUSE
This site can confidently be said to have been continuously
occupied for at least 2,000 year.
The Roman pavement, low and to the left of the front gate was of a corridor or outbuilding to the main villa, which lies ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Pat Kirby
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Article |
Memory Lane - Land Girls |
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ID |
ML2025_004_049 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Land Girls |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Land Girls
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
During the last war a number of Land Girls, as they were called, worked in the fields on the Island. Several of them were from the Romford area where they had worked in a clothing factory. Working on the land was quite ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
April 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Hall |
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ID |
PH01_PHF |
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Title |
Peldon Hall |
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Abstract |
Peldon Hall
A Hammond postcard of Peldon Hall, its barn and lake circa 1911
Referred to as a 'mansion-house' by Philip Morant in his History of Essex (published in 1768) the building called Peldon Hall that we see today - ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
JINNIE - Oyster Skiff |
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ID |
WKB_001 |
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Title |
JINNIE - Oyster Skiff |
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Abstract |
JINNIE was also spelled JINNY but the name on the transom was JINNIE
JINNIE CK141
2.54gross registered tons motor fishing vessel. 21.6'x8.6'x2.6'. 20' keel. completed 1948 for Edwin
Richard Haward (master), West Mersea. 16/6/1948 Number allocated. 18/7/1964 To Lillian Dorothy Haward, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges |
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ID |
ML2025_003_054 |
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Title |
Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Clem Parker's Bradwell Barges
Clem Parker of Bradwell had a fine fleet of barges often seen working around Mersea. I was fortunate to pick up a nice postcard size photograph for £1 at a craft fair in Canterbury many years ago. The seller thought it showed a barge at Rye but ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE |
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ID |
ML2025_002_054 |
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Title |
MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE |
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Abstract |
Mersea Memories - MOLLIETTE and VIOLETTE
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
I recently bought an old postcard showing two ships VIOLETTE and REFLOATER. VIOLETTE is of particular interest as she was sister ship to MOLLIETTE which
became well known on Mersea.
MOLLIETTE and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
February 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Jack Emeny - boat builder at Wyatt's |
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ID |
MNY |
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Title |
Jack Emeny - boat builder at Wyatt's |
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Abstract |
Jack Emeny: boatbuilder at Wyatt's
Quotes about Jack
About that time Wyatts were starting to build new boats and small yachts. Jack Emeny, a young Suffolk boatbuilder recently demobbed from service in the Royal Air ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole |
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ID |
PH01_PHL |
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Title |
Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole |
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Abstract |
Butlers Farm, Peldon
and Peldon Hole
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Winter Snow |
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ID |
ML2025_001_049 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Winter Snow |
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Abstract |
For this issue we have selected snowy scenes from our museum archives. They were taken by Jack Botham, a photographer on the Island who had a photographic shop in Coast Road.
The first picture shows Orleans Corner. At this time, the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2025
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse |
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ID |
PH01_PWP |
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Title |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse |
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Abstract |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse
In writing an article about the poorhouse in Peldon and the subsequent building in 1837 of the Stanway Union Workhouse which took in the poor of Peldon, I found the names of many who had ended up in the workhouse, through no fault of their own. I felt ... |
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Keywords |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
December 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Working in Wartime Colchester |
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ID |
TXB_032 |
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Title |
Working in Wartime Colchester |
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Abstract |
Copy of an account of the bombing of St. Botolph's Corner, Colchester, in WW2 written by Phyllis Taylor 1944/5
and submitted to Mersea Museum by her daughter November 2024. Transcribed by Elaine Barker.
When war started, I went to work for Woods Engineering works in Denmark Street. The ... |
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Author |
Phyllis Taylor |
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Published |
1945
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm |
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ID |
PH01_SWK |
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Title |
Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm |
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Abstract |
Sampton Wick Farmhouse formerly White House Farm, Peldon
Sampton Wick
Grade II listed
Early C14 hall house, with crosswing. Timber framed and plastered with red
plain tile roof. Two storeys to cross wing, remainder one storey and attics.
1:3 window range modern casements. One gabled ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_HVF |
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Title |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon
According to Reaney in The Place Names of Essex, the name 'Harvey' of Peldon's Harvey's Farm dates back to 1366 when a John Hervy was listed as a holder of property in Peldon in a document called 'the Feet of Fines', an early record of land transactions. A researcher of ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project |
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ID |
EHWB_001 |
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Title |
Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project |
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Abstract |
Introducing Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project
There has never been such an approach to document the heritage of Essex by building a register around the heritage working vessels, their people and communities. As time ... |
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Author |
Helen Swift |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sampson's Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_SMP |
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Title |
Sampson's Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
SAMPSON'S FARM, PELDON
An aerial view of Sampson's Farm and its barns. Photo by Jack Botham 1963
Sampson's Farmhouse in Peldon is located up a long private lane close to the sea wall and is owned and occupied by farmers, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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