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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 707 files - displaying 601 to 650 sorted by Date Added Descending
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Article |
Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1 |
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ML2017_010_L22 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - The History of Orleans Part 1 |
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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 before New ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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October 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Finds in the Mud |
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ID |
TXA03380 |
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Title |
Finds in the Mud |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Restoration of PRISCILLA |
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ID |
ML2017_008_L76 |
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Title |
Restoration of PRISCILLA |
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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 ... |
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August 2017
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
A Sailor in a Barrow |
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ID |
ML2017_006_L22 |
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Title |
A Sailor in a Barrow |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
June 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS |
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ID |
ML2017_005_L22 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - when we nearly lost the NUTSHELL- and LITTLE TIMBERS |
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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 ... |
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May 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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606 |
Article |
Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane. |
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ID |
ML2017_004_L85 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the Victory at the bottom of The Lane. |
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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 the 'old' Victory ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
April 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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607 |
Article |
Memory Lane - barges at the Strood |
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ID |
ML2017_003_L81_002 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - barges at the Strood |
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Abstract |
The high tides that cover The Strood cause a lot of inconvenience and
debate. Do they come over more often than they used to? It's very
obvious that the channel on the Pyefleet side is silting to the extent
that grass is ... |
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Author |
Ron Green> |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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608 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School |
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ML2017_003_L81_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Peggy Calver, teacher at West Mersea School |
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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 Green, David Mussett and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain |
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ID |
ML2017_002_L21 |
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Title |
Mersea Life - the 'Old' Fountain |
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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 Charles Boggis. ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr |
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ID |
MMH_EMP |
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Title |
East Mersea Parish Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr |
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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.
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul |
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ID |
MMH_WMP |
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Title |
West Mersea Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul |
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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 ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea |
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ID |
MMH_MTG |
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Title |
Strict Baptist Meeting House, East Mersea |
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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 or what they were about. ... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory. |
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ID |
MMH_CED |
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Title |
Roman Catholic Church of St Cedd and St Gregory. |
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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 the ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Old City Hall in The Lane |
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ID |
MMH_OCH |
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Title |
Old City Hall in The Lane |
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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 ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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615 |
Article |
Assembly Hall, East Road |
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ID |
MMH_MAH |
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Title |
Assembly Hall, East Road |
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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 place to live and develop. ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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616 |
Article |
Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church |
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ID |
MMH_CGU |
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Title |
Congregational Baptist Chapel - Union - Free Church |
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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 Hawes, gave the site of the ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church |
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ID |
MMH_MET |
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Title |
Wesleyan Chapel - Methodist Church |
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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 Coastguard by the name ... |
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Author |
William Chatters |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Union Church Sunday School Treat |
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ID |
ML2017_001_L91 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Union Church Sunday School Treat |
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Abstract |
Following on from last month's picture, I have another group from the
Union Church (now the Free Church). This picture is believed to be of
a Sunday School Treat of about 1914 being held in the Mill Field behind
West ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2017
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Congregational Church Brotherhood |
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ID |
ML2016_012_L22 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Congregational Church Brotherhood |
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Abstract |
I was fortunate to find a postcard showing a group, mostly of men, posing at the Union Church, now the Free Church in Mill Road. It is a Congregational Church Men's Brotherhood group and the card was posted on May 7th 1907. It shows the school room in the background which has since had an extension ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
December 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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620 |
Article |
Mersea Pubs - old and new Fountain Hotel |
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ID |
PUBS_FNH |
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Title |
Mersea Pubs - old and new Fountain Hotel |
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Abstract |
'Old' Fountain Hotel
East Road, near The Fox
The 'old' Fountain on East Road with The Fox in the distance
The 'old' Fountain. On ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Pubs - the White Hart |
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ID |
PUBS_WHT |
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Title |
Mersea Pubs - the White Hart |
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Abstract |
The White Hart was in the centre of West Mersea life for many years. It appears on an 1817 map of West Mersea - the oldest part is in the centre of today's building and was the centre of larger 15th Century building that was later replaced.
Many Island organisations (including the various ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough. |
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ID |
DIS2016_ZEP |
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Title |
Zeppelin L33 at Little Wigborough. |
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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 ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
East Mersea road blocked |
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ID |
ML2016_011_L85 |
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Title |
East Mersea road blocked |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
November 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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624 |
Article |
100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding |
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ID |
ML2016_010_L83_002 |
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Title |
100 Years Ago. Moss Cottage wedding |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
October 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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625 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road |
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ID |
ML2016_010_L83_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Hadley's shops in Mill Road |
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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 Hadley's gents outfitters ... |
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Author |
Ron Green, Brian Jay and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
October 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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626 |
Article |
Memory Lane - High Street shops |
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ID |
ML2016_009_L81 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - High Street shops |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green, Tony Millatt, Brian Jay |
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Published |
September 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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627 |
Article |
Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe |
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ID |
LUC_SCH_007 |
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Title |
Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe |
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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 so ... |
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Author |
Susan Luckham |
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Published |
2006
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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628 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Mersea bands |
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ID |
ML2016_008_L81 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Mersea bands |
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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. ... |
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Published |
August 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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629 |
Article |
Memory Lane - buses in the ditch |
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ID |
ML2016_007_L19 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - buses in the ditch |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
July 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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630 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard |
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ID |
ML2016_005_L24 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Peldon Home Guard |
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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. Bruce Rainbird, 5. Bert ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
May 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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631 |
Article |
Memory Lane - the Home Guard |
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ID |
ML2016_004_L93_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - the Home Guard |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s |
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ID |
ML2016_003_L83_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1960s |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
March 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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633 |
Article |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1961 |
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ID |
ML2016_002_L17_001 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - outing to Wannock Gardens 1961 |
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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 and are named from left ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
February 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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634 |
Article |
Linda receives her MBE from Prince Charles |
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ML2016_001_L11_001 |
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Title |
Linda receives her MBE from Prince Charles |
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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 Catherine ... |
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January 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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635 |
Article |
White Hart Darts Club coach trip |
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ID |
ML2016_001_L12_001 |
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Title |
White Hart Darts Club coach trip |
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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.
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2016
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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636 |
Article |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Garage |
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ID |
ML2015_010_L59 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Garage |
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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 is from the Brian Jay ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Coaches |
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ID |
ML2015_011_L66 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Underwoods Coaches |
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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.
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2015
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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638 |
Article |
Brief history of the "Delft" Plate |
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ID |
DJG_DEL |
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Title |
Brief history of the "Delft" Plate |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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639 |
Article |
The late Mr Kenneth Osborne |
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ID |
DJG_KEN |
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Title |
The late Mr Kenneth Osborne |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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640 |
Article |
Three Voyages |
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ID |
DJG_VOY |
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Title |
Three Voyages |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
13 February 1980
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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Article |
The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club |
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ID |
DJG_TSC |
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Title |
The Origin of Tollesbury Sailing Club |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
c1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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642 |
Article |
A History of Tollesbury |
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ID |
DJG_HIS |
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Title |
A History of Tollesbury |
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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 historians ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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643 |
Article |
Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair |
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ID |
DJG_PIE |
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Title |
Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie Fair |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
23 February 1968
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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644 |
Article |
Douglas Jack Gurton - an Autobiography |
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ID |
DJG_BIP |
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Title |
Douglas Jack Gurton - an Autobiography |
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Abstract |
I was born on the 25th. January, 1908 (Robert Burns' Day) at the
Hope Inn, Tollesbury, Essex, where my parents were the
licensees at that time. My father, Ezra Walter Gurton had taken
over about a year previously much to the dismay of my mother,
Eva Jane Alverstone Gurton, who disliked inns ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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645 |
Article |
An Essex Wildfowler - John Gurton 1848-1916 |
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ID |
DJG_EWF |
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Title |
An Essex Wildfowler - John Gurton 1848-1916 |
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Abstract |
Hanging on the wall of the grand staircase in the Chelmsford and Essex Museum,
Oaklands Park, Chelmsford, is a formidable 18th century four bore flint lock
mud sledge or punt gun, reputed to have been owned and used at one time
by John Gurton of Tollesbury, my grandfather, John was the second ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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646 |
Article |
Christmasses of Yesteryear |
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ID |
DJG_CMY |
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Title |
Christmasses of Yesteryear |
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Abstract |
The first Christmas I can recall was that of 1910,
I was approaching my third birthday. My mother had
died a few months previously, and I had been taken into
the care of my grandparents, John and Emma Gurton, who
lived in United Cottages of the then "Woodrope Road".
John and Emma had had ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
18 December 1979
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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647 |
Article |
Those were the days - Tollesbury fishing |
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ID |
DJG_TWT |
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Title |
Those were the days - Tollesbury fishing |
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Abstract |
Reminiscences of childhood memories of over fifty years ago by Douglas Jack Gurton.
The report by the Fishery Officer on the decline of the fishing
industry in this area, reminds me of the struggle of local
fishermen to gain a livelihood over fifty years ago. There were
117 smacks owned ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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648 |
Article |
Tollesbury Village Bygones |
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ID |
DJG_VBY |
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Title |
Tollesbury Village Bygones |
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Abstract |
Before 1914 Tollesbury had its own "Town Crier", who presumably
for a small fee could be hired to announce matters of
importance to the parish ranging from meetings to arrivals of
coal cargoes by barge at 13/- a ton, shot down outside your house,
or at 19/- (95p) if put in the coal-hole or ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Cedric Gurton
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649 |
Article |
Night Soil Collection |
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ID |
DJG_NSL |
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Title |
Night Soil Collection |
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Abstract |
We are very apt to take things for granted these days -
I refer to the public utilities, water supplies, lighting,
refuse collection, and by no means least of all, the disposal
of sewage. In the mid-eighties there was no sewer in Tollesbury in Essex
and the population in excess of 1,000 had ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Published |
18 March 1978
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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650 |
Article |
Oyster Culture and Dredging |
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ID |
DJG_OYS |
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Title |
Oyster Culture and Dredging |
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Abstract |
It is accepted locally, but not generally known that there were
oyster fisheries in these parts prior to Roman times, and one
historian jocularly suggested that one of the reasons which prompted
Julius Caesar to invade these shores was that he had been told that
the delicate and succulent ... |
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Author |
Douglas J. Gurton |
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Keywords |
cultch |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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