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This database contains some of the books and papers held by Mersea Museum.

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351	Article	Coming to Tollesbury - from Winifred Hone memoirs
	ID	WW01_011
	Title	Coming to Tollesbury - from Winifred Hone memoirs
	Abstract	My father Frederick Evelyn Cowles took over the tenancy of the Kings Head Tollesbury on 1916. I think I can say that they were the happiest days of his life, he loved the honesty of the locals with their forthright and carefree way of life. My father was a learned man and many were the letters ...
	Author	Winifred Hone
	Keywords	ww1
	Published	c1969
	Source	Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady


352	Article	Pyefleet House, Strood Close, Strood Villa
	ID	PH01_PFH
	Title	Pyefleet House, Strood Close, Strood Villa
	Abstract	PYEFLEET HOUSE Researched & compiled by Geoff Gonella The building Pyefleet House is the last-but-one house on the Strood before Mersea Island. Over the years it has also been named 'Strood Villa', 'Strood Close' and 'The Vicarage, Peldon.' At the t ...
	Author	Geoff Gonella
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


353	Article	World War 1 - Private Dines
	ID	WW1_DIN
	Title	World War 1 - Private Dines
	Abstract	St. Mary's churchyard has a military grave with a headstone that reads: 454276 Private H.W. Dines Labour Corps. 4 November 1918 age 34 Harry Wi ...
	Author	Geoff Gonella
	Published	November 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


354	Article	Peldon - the 1953 Flood
	ID	PH01_FLD
	Title	Peldon - the 1953 Flood
	Abstract	For hundreds of years there has been an ongoing battle trying to defend the Essex coastal marshlands against inundation by high tides. Although we focus on the 1953 floods, being within living memory, they were preceded by previous inundations notably, in the last hundred ...
	Author	Elaine Barker
	Keywords	BERNARD
	Published	5 March 2018
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


355	Article	The Peldon Vulture
	ID	PH01_VTR
	Title	The Peldon Vulture
	Abstract	Egyptian Vulture. Photo from Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove. There are numerous references to the rare sighting (and shooting) of an Egyptian Vulture ...
	Author	Elaine Barker
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


356	Article	Peldon Chapel
	ID	PH01_PMC
	Title	Peldon Chapel
	Abstract	The congregation outside Peldon Chapel around 1945. Photo: Pat Wyncoll (the little boy in the foreground) Peldon Chapel was built on the North side of Lower Road, Peldon ...
	Author	Elaine Barker
	Source	Mersea Museum / Peldon History Project


357	Article	Memory Lane - widening the Strood
	ID	ML2018_003_L19
	Title	Memory Lane - widening the Strood
	Abstract	The appalling state of the Strood railings is causing a great deal of concern at the moment and doesn't give a good impression to visitors coming on to the island. We have selected two pictures from our museum archive to show work in progress when the Strood was widened and the fencing was improved ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


358	Article	Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village.
	ID	ML2018_002_L19
	Title	Memory Lane - One hundred years of bus service to Peldon Village.
	Abstract	Peldon village has enjoyed a bus service now for over one hundred years. The changes being made by First Bus from February 18th will reduce that service to evenings and Sundays only. Those services continue under contract with Essex County Council and are not affected. The earliest motor bus to ...
	Published	February 2018
	Source	Mersea Museum


359	Article	Memory Lane - rising tides ?
	ID	ML2018_001_L21
	Title	Memory Lane - rising tides ?
	Abstract	We are often led to believe that the tides cover the Strood more often than they used to and are getting bigger. I think the ever increasing amount of traffic could give that impression. The ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


360	Article	Mersea Island Trust
	ID	MCT_002
	Title	Mersea Island Trust
	Abstract	The following article was written by J.H.G. Sunnucks for Mistral Magazine in 1995 1995 saw the 30th anniversary of the opening by Miss Akhurst of the first "sheltered" accommodation on the Island. There must be many varied memories of how it all began, but this is how the ...
	Author	J.H.G. Sunnucks
	Published	1995
	Source	Mersea Museum


361	Article	Preserving Mersea's oldest roads
	ID	COR2_027
	Title	Preserving Mersea's oldest roads
	Abstract	It was heartening to read in Courier no. 666 of the Strood Charity's generous donation to Mersea Island Museum, towards the preservation and display of timbers from an ancient Bronze Age walkway. Discovered in the mud off Cooper's Beach by Oysterman, Daniel French, the surviving 4-metre section of ...
	Author	Sue Howlett
	Published	11 November 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


362	Article	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 2
	ID	ML2017_011_L32
	Title	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 2
	Abstract	By Ron Green with Tony Millatt and Brian Jay Mersea Island Museum We continue the history of Orleans, the large house by the Monkey Beach in West Mersea. At the end of the 19th Century, Orleans belonged to Thomas Gilbert a wealthy gentleman who was a JP, Churchwarden, Captain of ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	November 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


363	Article	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1
	ID	ML2017_010_L22
	Title	Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1
	Abstract	By Ron Green with Tony Millatt and Brian Jay Mersea Island Museum Recently, a lady visitor to Mersea noticed while walking along the Monkey beach, an ornamental metal gate in the wall of New Orleans garden. She wanted to find out about the old house Orleans which stood in the grounds ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	October 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


364	Article	In the Mud
	ID	TXA03380
	Title	In the Mud
	Abstract	2017 was an exciting year along the Mersea shore. In 2016, CITiZAN (Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeology Network) visited the island and looked more deeply into some things we thought we already knew about. About the same time local oystermen were making interesting finds and it became clear ...
	Author	Tony Millatt
	Source	Mersea Museum


365	Article	Restoration of PRISCILLA
	ID	ML2017_008_L76
	Title	Restoration of PRISCILLA
	Abstract	A Mersea fishing smack has been brought back to life by The Pioneer Sailing Trust based at Harker's Yard, Brightlingsea, after a four year restoration with the aid of a grant of £790,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. PRISCILLA was found abandoned in a boatyard in Bristol and the yard ...
	Published	August 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


366	Article	A Sailor in a Barrow
	ID	ML2017_006_L22
	Title	A Sailor in a Barrow
	Abstract	MEMORY LANE From Ron Green and Tony Millatt - Mersea Island Museum. In our May item for Mersea Life, we referred to an old newspaper cutting concerning The Nutshell and Little Timbers in The Lane. In another cutting, dating from 1906, we find an interesting tale concerning ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	June 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


367	Article	Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS
	ID	ML2017_005_L22
	Title	Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS
	Abstract	From a newspaper cutting dated 4 November 1971 shown recently to the museum comes this report - The Nutshell - a five hundred year old smuggler's cottage owned by a baroness in Malta, stands in the way of road improvements for the well-known yachting centre. Three members of the Highways ...
	Published	May 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


368	Article	Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane.
	ID	ML2017_004_L85
	Title	Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane.
	Abstract	Our Museum is getting a constant flow of interesting old pictures etc. Out of the blue, Chris Burrows from Whitstable has emailed this fine image of the 'old' Victory. Comparing it with a postcard of ...
	Author	Ron Green and Tony Millatt
	Published	April 2017
	Source	Mersea Museum


369	Article	Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School
	ID	ML2017_003_L81_001
	Title	Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School
	Abstract	Mrs Margaret (Peggy) Brunt née Calver passed away in Boston Butterfly Hospice on Saturday 11th February - her daughter's birthday. She was a teacher at West Mersea School during the war. Ron ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Source	Mersea Museum


370	Article	Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain
	ID	ML2017_002_L21
	Title	Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain
	Abstract	Our local scene this month comes from a very faded postcard given to me many years ago by Mrs Ivy 'Doll' Cook née Green. The scene is the 'old' Fountain in East Road c 1908 when the inn keeper was ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


371	Article	East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr
	ID	MMH_EMP
	Title	East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr
	Abstract	The Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, and the nearby East Mersea Hall, are built in a moated area that is thought to have contained a Danish encampment from their visit in 894 AD, as mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.	Source	Mersea Museum


372	Article	West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
	ID	MMH_WMP
	Title	West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
	Abstract	It was at a spot only three miles across the Backwater Estuary at Bradwell-on-Sea that St. Cedd founded his little monastery circa 654, built the historic St. Peter's Chapel out of the remains of the Roman fort of Othona, and from there he evangelised Essex, the kingdom of the East Saxons. It is ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


373	Article	Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea
	ID	MMH_MTG
	Title	Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea
	Abstract	Travelling eastwards along the road from West to East Mersea you see a turning to the left named "Meeting Lane"; if you go down the lane you will not now find any clues as to where meetings were held ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


374	Article	Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory.
	ID	MMH_CED
	Title	Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory.
	Abstract	Though the church is the latest to be built on the Island, its roots go back to the very beginnings of the Island's Christian heritage. Christianity reached Essex through St. Cedd, a monk, who landed at Bradwell in AD653, at the invitation of the local King. From there Cedd proceeded with ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


375	Article	Old City Hall in The Lane
	ID	MMH_OCH
	Title	Old City Hall in The Lane
	Abstract	Many people walking down The Lane have been surprised to see a little mission hall tucked in among the houses in the oldest part of the island. They wonder at the name, "Old City Hall", a somewhat grandiose name for such a small hall; however, the name is more apt than it at ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


376	Article	Assembly Hall, East Road
	ID	MMH_MAH
	Title	Assembly Hall, East Road
	Abstract	Situated in East Road on the corner of Seaview Avenue is the Assembly Hall, an attractive boarded and tiled building opened in 1910 when Mersea Island was discovered and thought to be a desirable ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


377	Article	Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church
	ID	MMH_CGU
	Title	Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church
	Abstract	West Mersea Free Church, Mill Road Formerly Union Church, (Congregational & Baptist). It was in the year of the battle of Trafalgar that a local landowner and oyster merchant, Mr Bennett ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


378	Article	Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church
	ID	MMH_MET
	Title	Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church
	Abstract	The Wesleyan Chapel in Mill Road, West Mersea. It is now known as the Methodist Church. Wesleyan Methodism began here, as far as can be traced, in 1832. At that time a Welsh ...
	Author	William Chatters
	Source	Mersea Museum


379	Article	Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough.
	ID	DIS2016_ZEP
	Title	Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough.
	Abstract	Excitement came to the small village of Little Wigborough on the night of 24 September 1916, with the crash of the German Zeppelin airship L33. The airship had been on a bombing raid over London and was returning to Germany. She was, however, hit by gunfire over the East End and she then struggled ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


380	Article	East Mersea road blocked
	ID	ML2016_011_L85
	Title	East Mersea road blocked
	Abstract	A piece of World War 2 shrapnel recently landed back on Mersea - in the Museum letterbox. It came from John Simons, whose family came to live with relatives in East Mersea to escape the bombs coming down around the Chatham Dockyard in Kent. The shrapnel had originally arrived in ...
	Author	Ron Green and Tony Millatt
	Published	November 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


381	Article	100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding
	ID	ML2016_010_L83_002
	Title	100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding
	Abstract	This happy wedding group are pictured outside Moss Cottage, Queens Corner just over 100 years ago, on September 29th 1916. Tragically both the bridgegroom Archibold Percy Green, the Best Man Henry Pullen and one other of the wedding guests were to lose their lives when their ship RFA INDUSTRY was ...
	Author	Ron Green and Tony Millatt
	Published	October 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


382	Article	Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road
	ID	ML2016_010_L83_001
	Title	Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road
	Abstract	There has been considerable feedback on last month's item about shops in High Street. Memories of Hadley's shops in Mill Road have also appeared on social media. The shop best remembered as ...
	Author	Ron Green, Brian Jay and Tony Millatt
	Published	October 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


383	Article	Memory Lane - High Street shops
	ID	ML2016_009_L81
	Title	Memory Lane - High Street shops
	Abstract	There has been a good deal of interest in High Street with the demolition Marfleet Lettings building and the erection of a new building in its place. The old timber framed building dated from the early 1930s and, as far as can be remembered, started life as Mr Charles Bloomfield's sweet shop. During ...
	Author	Ron Green, Tony Millatt, Brian Jay
	Published	September 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


384	Article	Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe
	ID	LUC_SCH_007
	Title	Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe
	Abstract	As elsewhere in the country, Mersea has been looking "back at the war years. Those of you who visited the Museum last year will have seen many reminders of the Second World War, and we of a "certain age" tended to say, "Do you remember?"! One wartime event on the Island, perhaps not ...
	Author	Susan Luckham
	Published	2006
	Source	Mersea Museum


385	Article	Memory Lane - Mersea bands
	ID	ML2016_008_L81
	Title	Memory Lane - Mersea bands
	Abstract	On Saturday 6th July, Wendy and I went along to Fen Farm, East Mersea to a Concert given by the Colchester Community Band themed 'Colchester Community Band goes pop'. The concert was in Ralph's tractor shed a fine new building built by Ralph Lord to house his fine collection of vintage tractors. ...
	Published	August 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


386	Article	Memory Lane - buses in the ditch
	ID	ML2016_007_L19
	Title	Memory Lane - buses in the ditch
	Abstract	On the 29th April last, a double decker operated by First Bus Company ended up in the ditch opposite Bonners on the Mersea Road. This is not the first time this has happened and we show two pictures of an earlier accident. In very windy weather with a South West wind the vehicles often catch a gust ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	July 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


387	Article	Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard
	ID	ML2016_005_L24
	Title	Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard
	Abstract	We continue the Home Guard theme from last month, with the Peldon Home Guard, photographed outside the Peldon Rose. Back Row 1. Edgar Reynolds, 2. Vic Sheldrake L/Cpl, 3. Will Nicholas, 4. ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	May 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


388	Article	Memory Lane - the Home Guard
	ID	ML2016_004_L93_001
	Title	Memory Lane - the Home Guard
	Abstract	I recently went to the cinema in Colchester, my first visit to the Odeon since it moved from Crouch Street. I went to see the film 'Dad's Army' because I always think the TV series is the funniest programme ever to come on television. Its a good film, but there will never be ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	March 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


389	Article	Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s
	ID	ML2016_003_L83_001
	Title	Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s
	Abstract	We have had a nice lot of feedback after last month's photo of the Union Church outing to Wannock Gardens, so here's another one, but we are not sure who organised this one . We don't have the date but it is in the 1960s. Again, it shows many of the old locals that are fondly remembered by us still ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	March 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


390	Article	Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1961
	ID	ML2016_002_L17_001
	Title	Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1961
	Abstract	For this month we have another group that went for an outing in an Underwoods Coach. This group from the Union Church (Now the Free Church) are pictured at Wannock Gardens, Polegate, Sussex in 1961 ...
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	February 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


391	Article	Linda receives her MBE from Prince Charles
	ID	ML2016_001_L11_001
	Title	Linda receives her MBE from Prince Charles
	Abstract	On Friday, 18 December, Mrs Linda Bullen of the Catherine Bullen Foundation based in West Mersea, attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace with her family to receive an MBE from His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. The citation read 'Co-founder, the ...
	Published	January 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


392	Article	White Hart Darts Club coach trip
	ID	ML2016_001_L12_001
	Title	White Hart Darts Club coach trip
	Abstract	We have had a lot of feedback from the image published in November's edition of Mersea Life showing the happy group of Mersea Locals on a trip with the White Hart darts team by Underwoods coach. We have been asked if we can print a larger picture - so here it is.
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	January 2016
	Source	Mersea Museum


393	Article	Memory Lane - Underwoods Garage
	ID	ML2015_010_L59
	Title	Memory Lane - Underwoods Garage
	Abstract	Underwoods Garage in Kingsland Road closed on the 1st October 2015. It was built in the 1930s when Philip Underwood moved his business from East Mersea. The first photograph ...
	Source	Mersea Museum


394	Article	Memory Lane - Underwoods Coaches
	ID	ML2015_011_L66
	Title	Memory Lane - Underwoods Coaches
	Abstract	Following on with Underwoods story, we have two pictures taken during a White Hart Darts Club outing to Felixstowe - or Gt Yarmouth with an Underwoods coach. The pictures come courtesy of Jenny Gibbons who appears on both images.
	Author	Ron Green
	Published	November 2015
	Source	Mersea Museum


395	Article	Brief history of the "Delft" Plate
	ID	DJG_DEL
	Title	Brief history of the "Delft" Plate
	Abstract	September 1944 found the Detachment of Civil Affairs, to which I had been assigned, halted at a small village Gavere near Ghent, Belgium. We had proceeded rapidly from Arromanches, Normandy. The enemy was falling back rapidly over the Rhine, possibly fearing being over run by the Russians from ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


396	Article	The late Mr Kenneth Osborne
	ID	DJG_KEN
	Title	The late Mr Kenneth Osborne
	Abstract	His many friends including former passengers were stunned to learn on Friday the 17th September that Mr. Kenneth Osborne had suddenly passed away at Westminster Hospital where he had undergone an operation. "Ken" as he was affectionately known had for many years taken an active part in the day ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


397	Article	Three Voyages
	ID	DJG_VOY
	Title	Three Voyages
	Abstract	Nowadays it is quite common to read of venturesome and hazardous voyages completed single handed or with crews, but it is not generally known or has been forgotten that at least three epic voyages were completed successfully by men of this village. In 1911 the schooner "Sunshine" re-rigged as a ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	13 February 1980
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


398	Article	The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club
	ID	DJG_TSC
	Title	The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club
	Abstract	Shortly after the Great War there came to reside in Tollesbury a gentleman, named Major Kenrick McMullen, a member of a notable brewing family in Hertfordshire, who had been serving as a staff officer in the Army. He and his family settled down in the village, and eventually acquired land ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	c1979
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


399	Article	A History of Tollesbury
	ID	DJG_HIS
	Title	A History of Tollesbury
	Abstract	A HISTORY OF TOLLESBURY "TOLESBIA ten et Almfrid de comite qd tenuit GUDMUND lib lit ho, uno manerio ....." so runs the beginning of one of two paragraphs concerning the Pariah of Tollesbury in the Hundred of "Tureatapla" or Thurstable, as recorded in Domesday Book 1068. Early ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Source	Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton


400	Article	Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair
	ID	DJG_PIE
	Title	Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair
	Abstract	Tollesbury is a large compact village, situated on rising ground, and joins on the west to the villages of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Tolleshunt Knights, Goldhanger and Salcott cum Virley, in the County of Essex. It is bounded on the sout, east and north-east sides by marshlands and saltings. The River ...
	Author	Douglas J. Gurton
	Published	23 February 1968
	Source	Mersea Museum

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