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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 702 files - displaying 151 to 200 sorted by Date Added
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Article |
Peldon Hostel in the 1960s and 70s |
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PH01_HPX |
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Title |
Peldon Hostel in the 1960s and 70s |
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Abstract |
The following information has been put together using notes and a diagram from Nick Hines who worked at Peldon's Hostel during its time as a pig
unit.
The Peldon Hostel situated on the Wigborough Road between Peldon and Little Wigborough enjoyed a new life as a pig unit from the late ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
29 December 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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152 |
Article |
Who was the man in the Mersea Barrow ? |
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ID |
SH02_BAR |
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Title |
Who was the man in the Mersea Barrow ? |
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Abstract |
Secrets revealed by new research in 2021 for an exhibition in Colchester Museum
The first excavation
Nearly two thousand years ago an anonymous individual, now familarly known as 'Mersea Man', was laid to rest under a massive, man-made
earthen mound. This barrow or tumulus, which even ... |
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Author |
Sue Howlett |
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Published |
28 December 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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153 |
Article |
The Boating Lake |
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ID |
ML2022_001_062 |
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Title |
The Boating Lake |
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Abstract |
We have a fine new boating lake in East Mersea. I haven't seen it but I hear it is very popular.
I remember very well the West Mersea boating lake in what was called Shears Meadow. It all came about in a roundabout way because of a gas works. The retort house building for this project was ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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154 |
Article |
Tollesbury and the Essex Saltings in the 1950s and 1960s |
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ID |
JBL_TOL |
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Title |
Tollesbury and the Essex Saltings in the 1950s and 1960s |
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Abstract |
James Blott's memories of Tollesbury and the Essex Saltings in the 1950s and 1960s
On arrival in Tollesbury, with a car bursting with suitcases, food and drink, we would be met by Charles Spooner, our 'Steward' who was employed year-round initially, looking after us when we visited, and keeping ... |
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Author |
James Blott |
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Published |
August 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum / James Blott
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Article |
Peldon's War Dead |
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ID |
PH01_WWS |
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Title |
Peldon's War Dead |
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Abstract |
There are eight men who died in WW1 commemorated on the marble memorial in St. Mary's Church, Peldon.
There were five other men we know of, three of whom died some years after the war, never having recovered from their wounds and two who were overlooked. Although their names do not appear on ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
November 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Fair |
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ID |
PH01_PFR |
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Title |
Peldon Fair |
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Abstract |
In the Kelly's Trade Directory of 1844 it mentions there was a fair held in the village of Peldon on Michaelmas Day. In White's Trade Directory of
1863 it qualifies this by saying a small fair was held in the village.
In an era when there were few days off and life was hard, the ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
November 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Development old and new |
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ID |
ML2021_012_078 |
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Title |
Development old and new |
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Abstract |
With the Brierley Paddocks development now under way and the many groans of disapproval on the social media, I thought it would be interesting to look back at what might have been. Plans were first put forward to develop all this area nearly 120 years ago.
I have before me a layout from a ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
December 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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158 |
Article |
Rectors of Peldon |
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ID |
PEL_REC2 |
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Title |
Rectors of Peldon |
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Abstract |
In writing this article I am following in the footsteps of the Reverend Anthony Gough, incumbent of St. Mary's Peldon from 1964 - 1971. His
research went into a church guide (published in 1970) which is still available in the church ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon and the Mozart Connection |
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ID |
PH01_RWM |
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Title |
Peldon and the Mozart Connection |
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Abstract |
THE REVEREND WILLIAM SPENCER HARRIS BRAHAM MEADOWS
Compared to other Essex churches, the Norman Church of St. Mary's. Peldon, has not exactly been in the forefront of the great musical tradition for which the Christian Faith and Liturgy is justly renowned. Nor would it have been expected to be, ... |
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Author |
Reverend Tony Gough |
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Published |
2004
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon's blacksmiths and forge |
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ID |
PH01_BSM |
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Title |
Peldon's blacksmiths and forge |
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Abstract |
The blacksmith was at the heart of our towns and villages for centuries. His forge was usually situated on a crossroads and would provide a social hub where news and gossip would be exchanged, horses inspected and deals would be done.
Early blacksmiths would practise many trades, they were not ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
October 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Life around the Fox |
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ID |
ML2021_011_078 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Life around the Fox |
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Abstract |
Quite often when I sit in The Fox having my Wednesday roast, my thoughts go back almost 200 years to when my Great Great Grandfather John Green would have been around there and what he would make of the area as it is now. The Tithe awards of 1839 list him as Occupier, with others, of Cottage and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
That Statue - and Copt Hall Lane |
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ID |
LWG_RPJ |
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Title |
That Statue - and Copt Hall Lane |
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Abstract |
That Statue! [which refers to the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College Oxford and the controversy about whether it should remain]
Article written for Peldon and Wigborough Village News September 2021
It all started in March this year. Well to be exact it actually started in ... |
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Author |
Joe Kennils |
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Published |
September 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The History of Whitakers, Lower Road, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_WTK |
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Title |
The History of Whitakers, Lower Road, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Whitakers appears as a cottage name in several of Peldon's registers, the 1918 and 1929 electoral rolls and the 1939 register, and it appears it was three dwellings during much of its life. Situated between Moss Cottage (the old village ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - the Regatta |
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ID |
ML2021_010_074 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the Regatta |
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Abstract |
I was delighted to attend another West Mersea Town Regatta this year, especially after the pandemic prevented last year's from taking place. I calculated that it was my 74th as I was at at least one regatta in the 1930s. I have before me a copy of the advertising poster for the 1939 Regatta which ... |
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Published |
October 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
ESSEX MAID built Rowhedge Ironworks 1939 |
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ID |
JBL_RIW |
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Title |
ESSEX MAID built Rowhedge Ironworks 1939 |
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Abstract |
ESSEX MAID was built in 1939 for John Blott, who had previously owned the yacht ALPHA, and had become "bitten with the idea of power in excess of sail".
Designed by W.G. McBryde of Glasgow along the lines of an East Coast drifter. She ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mary Sparks Apr 1940 - June 2021 |
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ID |
MSP_BIO |
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Title |
Mary Sparks Apr 1940 - June 2021 |
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Abstract |
Although Mary's parents lived in Dartford, Mary Newman was born in The City of London on April 11th 1940.
Mary was always very proud to be a Cockney. Her maternal grandmother wanted her to be born near to where she lived.
(This was 5 months before the bombing of London).
Soon after she ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea Regatta 28 August 1840 |
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ID |
REG_1840_001 |
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Title |
West Mersea Regatta 28 August 1840 |
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Abstract |
The third West Mersea Regatta
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Published |
4 September 1840
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea Regatta 29 August 1839 |
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ID |
REG_1839_001 |
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Title |
West Mersea Regatta 29 August 1839 |
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Abstract |
The second annual regatta at the above watering place took places last Thursday [29th August] under the most favourable auspices. It was only
last year that a few gentlemen, who have greatly interested themselves to promote the island in public opinion as a summer retreat,
set on foot the regatta, ... |
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Published |
29 August 1839
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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169 |
Article |
Memorial to Ann Marke in St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_CHD |
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Title |
Memorial to Ann Marke in St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Edward and Ann Marke: St Stephen's Church,
Great Wigborough
In St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough there is a slab set in the nave floor engraved with the inscription
HERE LYETH BURIED THE
BODIE OF ANN MARKE THE
WIFE OF ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea bus services |
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ID |
ML2021_009_074 |
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Title |
Mersea bus services |
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Abstract |
I was born in No. 6 Council House in Barfield Road and as soon as I was able, I spent a great deal of time looking out of my front window at the passing traffic. It was the mid-1930s and much of it was horsedrawn but there were also buses from four different companies passing by.
Firstly the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
September 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Strahl family on Mersea |
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ID |
MSD |
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Title |
The Strahl family on Mersea |
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Abstract |
Rene and Germaine Strahl lived in Mersea. They had moved to England from France and were directors in England of the
French Guerlain perfume company. They lived in London for many years before getting a house on Mersea.
Rene was Swiss and was born 1895. He married Germaine Barre in 1924 in ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Great Wigborough's Rectory 1963 |
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ID |
GWG_RCU |
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Title |
Great Wigborough's Rectory 1963 |
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Abstract |
From The Wigborough News a monthly magazine for the two parishes of Great and Little Wigborough. Editor The Reverend Roland Hall No.22 June 1963
When I was appointed Curate-in-Charge of the Wigborough parishes nearly two years ago, the old rectory adjacent to St Stephen's Church was declared ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
June 1963
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Laneys |
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ID |
ML2021_008_077 |
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Title |
The Laneys |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - the Laneys
Around 120 years ago there were little groups of cottages on Mersea. One such group was around the area known as 'the City' in the The Lane. People from around this area were known as Laneys and it extended from The Coast up The Lane to it's junction with Firs Chase, ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Story behind the brass of Henry Bullock |
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ID |
PH01_BLQ |
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Title |
The Story behind the brass of Henry Bullock |
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Abstract |
In Great Wigborough Church there are only two remaining memorials to a member of the wealthy Bullock family who lived and held property in the village from the early 1500s. One is a gravestone behind the altar dated 1628 and the other is a little brass, now mounted in the nave wall but previously ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
GWG |
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Published |
9 July 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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175 |
Article |
Straw Plaiting |
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ID |
PH01_SPL |
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Title |
Straw Plaiting |
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Abstract |
Let me take you back to Peldon in 1815.
John Haxell (also spelt Haxcell), whose family gave Haxells Farm its name, was running a small private school for boys. He ran his school from a double cottage somewhere near St Ives Hill, this was 20 years before the Church School was built next to St ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea School |
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ID |
ML2021_007_077 |
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Title |
West Mersea School |
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Abstract |
I started at West Mersea Council School around Easter 1937. I was living in Barfield Road at the time and I was a very reluctant starter. In the end my Dad loaded me into the seat on the back of his bike on the pretence of going to East Mersea to visit Auntie Nellie, but instead of going past the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
July 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A tribute to a dear brother by Ron Green |
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ID |
ML2021_008_030 |
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Title |
A tribute to a dear brother by Ron Green |
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Abstract |
I can still remember being woken by the sounds of a baby crying in the front bedroom of our home No 6 Council House, Barfield Road. It was March 5th 1937. Brother John had arrived. Two years later we moved to a new bungalow in Suffolk Avenue that dad had built, working for Clifford White. I remember ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Priest's House, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_PHS |
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Title |
Priest's House, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Priest's House, Peldon
Grade II listed
15th Century timber framed and plastered, house with red plain tile roof. Two storeys
and attics. Gabled and originally jettied to front, now part underbuilt. One
window range, modern casements. Some original exposed frame on north side,
with ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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179 |
Article |
The Bullock Family of Layer de La Haye |
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ID |
PH01_BLH |
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Title |
The Bullock Family of Layer de La Haye |
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Abstract |
The Bullocks' general stores and Post Office in Layer de La Haye post 1948
An image of the shop run by the Bullock family in Layer de La Haye, still remembered today, has sparked my desire to try to link this family with the Bullocks of ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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180 |
Article |
Shocking accident at the Strood |
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ID |
ML2021_006_076 |
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Title |
Shocking accident at the Strood |
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Abstract |
With each week of big tides there is usually a motor vehicle stuck on the Strood by the driver misjudging the depth of water over the road. Fortunately no one has lost their life there recently. By far the worst accident happened before the days of the motor car. Sisters Eva Clarry 21 and Annie ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
June 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Leslie Grimes - Artist and Cartoonist |
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ID |
PH01_LGR |
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Title |
Leslie Grimes - Artist and Cartoonist |
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Abstract |
Leslie James Grimes was born in 1897 in Chertsey, Surrey. He married Annie McDonnell Ewen in 1923 and they had three sons. After Art School, Leslie built a reputation in motoring art, producing illustrations for brochures, and he also did artwork for children's annuals.
In 1927 Leslie succeeded ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The tuppeny water pistol |
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ID |
ML2021_005_078 |
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Title |
The tuppeny water pistol |
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Abstract |
In my school days there was a little shop on Queens Corner owned by Miss Katie White. She sold a range of things including toys and sweets, a school boy's dream. Walking home from Barfield Road school to my home in Suffolk Avenue I often stopped by to see what was in the window. One day I spotted a ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Patricia Catchpole 'Catchy' |
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ID |
CHY_101 |
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Title |
Patricia Catchpole 'Catchy' |
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Abstract |
Miss Patricia Catchpole by Cynthia Mottershaw
Affectionately known to all on the Island as 'Catchy', she was the daughter of a Suffolk farmer who also bred Suffolk
horses. Born in Darsham, Suffolk, Catchy moved to West Mersea in 1932.
Her first love was always horses, and 1949-1972, she ... |
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Author |
Cynthia Mottershaw / Jill Keene |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A Railway to Mersea Island ? |
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ID |
MMH_RLY |
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Title |
A Railway to Mersea Island ? |
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Abstract |
In 1982, at a Model Railway Exhibition in Colchester Town Hall, Roger Kingstone showed his 'O' Gauge layout of what he thought West Mersea Station would have been like if it was ever built. It was seen by William Packard, Editor of Mistral Magazine, who asked Roger if he would write an article for ... |
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Author |
Roger Kingstone |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Tollesbury Memories - further recollections from Fred Garrod |
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ID |
FGD_102 |
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Title |
Tollesbury Memories - further recollections from Fred Garrod |
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Abstract |
It was interesting to read that hay to feed the horses at the Equestrian events at the Olympic Games was supplied
by Old Hall Farm.
In the mid eighteenth century Old Hall used to be one of the busiest places in Tollesbury. The inn there was called the
"Crooked Billet" and was kept by a man ... |
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Author |
Fred Garrod |
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Published |
1972
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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186 |
Article |
Tollesbury Memories - recollections from Fred Garrod |
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ID |
FGD_101 |
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Title |
Tollesbury Memories - recollections from Fred Garrod |
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Abstract |
I was born in Tollesbury in the year 1902. My relatives on my father's side had had connections with the sea from time
immemorial, fishing and boat-building.
My father owned a fishing smack, and my two uncles also had one. I used to go with them to work almost as soon as I could toddle,
and ... |
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Author |
Fred Garrod |
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Published |
1972
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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187 |
Article |
MOLLIETTE - Exordium to Finale |
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ID |
WLD_MOL |
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Title |
MOLLIETTE - Exordium to Finale |
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Abstract |
A while back I was introduced to Owen Fletcher, a Mersea man, whose hobby is the compilation of a "History of Mersea and its
People" and who allowed me to extract from his accumulated data all the information he had on the MOLLIETTE in ... |
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Author |
Pat Zierold |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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188 |
Article |
Mersea Island Schools |
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ID |
SCH_MNU |
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Title |
Mersea Island Schools |
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Abstract |
There have been many schools on Mersea Island over the years and they are described in a number of articles:
... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
HELENA MODJESKA - a Liberty Ship |
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ID |
HMJ_JBL |
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Title |
HELENA MODJESKA - a Liberty Ship |
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Abstract |
In the years following World War Two, a wide variety of ships were laid up in the River Blackwater, looking forward to new future, or in many cases to the scrapyard. Merchant ship conversions rendered obsolete by the end of the war, ships with war damage that would not be worth repairing, ships that ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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190 |
Article |
When the steamer brought trippers to Mersea |
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ID |
ML2021_004_086 |
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Title |
When the steamer brought trippers to Mersea |
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Abstract |
Over a century ago the little steamboat SS Annie was to be seen working from Maldon. No one knows where or when she was built but when the Manchester Ship Canal was opened in 1893, she was one of a number of similar vessels doing pleasure cruises there. The cruises were not profitable so Annie was ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
April 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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191 |
Article |
Interview with June Martin née Goody |
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ID |
PH01_GDY |
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Title |
Interview with June Martin née Goody |
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Abstract |
JUNE MARTIN née GOODY
June's parents were William Ernest Edward Goody (born 9.10.1904) and Florence Minnie Balls (born 28/1/1910). William Ernest was born in Birch to parents William (born in Birch) and Sarah (born in Layer Breton c 1874). William was a stockman on a farm.
William ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
10 January 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Water Police |
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ID |
TUP_WPC |
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Title |
Water Police |
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Abstract |
An extract from Peter Tucker's writings
It will be known by some of the older folk of Mersea, 'Mersea people'' as opposed to the people who live at Mersea, 'five minute Mersea-ites' in fact, that there existed in the not too distant past, Water Policemen. A sergeant and two constables in fact, ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Published |
c2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Milkmen of Mersea by Peter Tucker |
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ID |
TUP_MKM |
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Title |
Milkmen of Mersea by Peter Tucker |
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Abstract |
Extracts from Peter Tucker's book.
Fred Farthing in Barfield Road - photo Mrs M. Ward
The main Milkman of the Island in early days that are within living memory was A.G. Farthing. (Manny), from the Dairy, No 12. Mersea Avenue. ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Keywords |
milkman |
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Published |
c2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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194 |
Article |
West Mersea Post Offices |
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ID |
TUP_POS |
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Title |
West Mersea Post Offices |
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Abstract |
Letters on the subject of West Mersea Post Offices.
Post Office - letter 1
May I request space to correct the inaccuracies in the printed history of the West Mersea Post Offices in this issue.
The first Office was indeed in the first cottage of the Terrace on the right hand side of ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker / Ron Green |
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Published |
July 2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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195 |
Article |
West Mersea Brickworks |
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ID |
TUP_BWK |
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Title |
West Mersea Brickworks |
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Abstract |
Clifford White's Brickworks were in Lower Kingsland Road.
The works had been started by developers about 1905 but they were caught up in the the bankruptcies in 1914 and the works were acquired by Clifford White.
The brickyard was in ... |
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Published |
2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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196 |
Article |
Some pieces of Mersea History by Peter Tucker |
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ID |
TUP_GEN |
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Title |
Some pieces of Mersea History by Peter Tucker |
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Abstract |
Peter Tucker tells us some Mersea history and gives us his views on it. Mersea development, Clifford White's Yard, the Fountain, Cresta Stores,
the MOLLIETTE, a tale of JOCASTA and Fastnet.
Many attempts were made over the years to bring Mersea up to the developers standards. London housing ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Keywords |
patterson |
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Published |
23 March 2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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197 |
Article |
Evacuees and Wartime Life |
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ID |
TUP_VAC |
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Title |
Evacuees and Wartime Life |
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Abstract |
Early in the war it was decided to evacuate London children to the country. Mersea had to take very many of the poor kids, but as to why they should have been sent to a forward area of perhaps a battle yet to come, is one of the imponderables of Government thinking that as ever defies comprehension. ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Published |
January 2008
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Home Guard by Peter Tucker |
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ID |
TUP_HOM |
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Title |
Mersea Home Guard by Peter Tucker |
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Abstract |
FOREWORD
THE STORM CLOUDS GATHER.
In the later part of my last year at Mersea School in 1938, we of the senior class became aware of a political crisis and rumours of the threat of War. There was little explanation of this from the teachers and the subject was more or less taboo. We ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Keywords |
wellhouse, kiddiesland |
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Published |
February 2008
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
OTHONA and other houseboats |
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ML2021_003_062 |
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Title |
OTHONA and other houseboats |
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Abstract |
When I was a small toddler living in Barfield Road, my Dad used to take me out in my pushchair while Mum cooked Sunday dinner. The route was usually down Coast Road by the houseboats and this was in the early 1930s when yachts and other vessels were coming in to be converted to houseboats. I'm ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
James Thomson killed 28 March 1918 |
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ID |
IYS_186 |
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Title |
James Thomson killed 28 March 1918 |
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Abstract |
THOMSON James
Rank: Private G/48138
Royal Fusiliers 4th Bn, 9th Brigade, 3rd Division
Date of death 28 March 1918 Age 27
James was the son of James Thomson, of Butler's Farm. This farm straddled the Parish ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Published |
27 October 2007
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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