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Article |
Richard Haward - Sermon by his son Joe |
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RHW_003 |
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Richard Haward - Sermon by his son Joe |
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Abstract |
I thought I would share my sermon from my father's funeral on Wednesday 18th October 2023:
"A reading from John's Gospel: "Thereafter Jesus again manifested himself to the disciples on the Sea of Tiberias; and this
was the manner in which he manifested himself: Simon Peter, and Thomas (which ... |
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Author |
Joe Haward |
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18 October 2023
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
Richard Howard - Eulogy by his wife Heather |
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RHW_002 |
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Title |
Richard Howard - Eulogy by his wife Heather |
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Abstract |
Well, what can I say about Richard? Much more than I can squeeze into the next five minutes that's for sure.
He was a man who loved his work, whether it be grading soles, counting oysters or driving loads of fish here and there
and everywhere, he would be in his element.
I first met ... |
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Author |
Heather Haward |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Richard Haward - a Mersea "gentle" man. |
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RHW_001 |
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Title |
Richard Haward - a Mersea "gentle" man. |
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Abstract |
Mersea Island has lost another one of its "gentle"men with the sad passing of Richard Haward recently.
Richard was born in 1945 to an old Mersea family going back over two hundred years on the Island, a heritage of which he was ... |
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Author |
Heather Haward |
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Keywords |
ENORI |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
In the Marshes of Old England |
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ID |
CW11_WTA |
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Title |
In the Marshes of Old England |
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Abstract |
The Wichita Daily Eagle Wichita, Kansas Sunday Morning, November 16, 1902
IN THE MARSHES OF OLD ENGLAND
Part of the little Island is Still Wild
EVER CHANGING COLOUR
Of the Lowlands by the Side of the Sea
The marsh land has lain unchanged so long, beside the ever-changing ... |
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Author |
Dora Greenwell McChesney |
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16 November 1902
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe |
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EC63_02_A01 |
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Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe |
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Abstract |
Mehalah's Country by G. W. Howe
Article from Essex Countryside magazine February 1963 transcribed by Joe Vince August 2023
Where Colne and Blackwater meet stands Mersea Island, separated from the remainder of Essex by long inlets from these two rivers.
To be very truthful, the two parishes ... |
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Author |
G.W. Howe |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The police steam launch |
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ID |
JPA_001 |
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Title |
The police steam launch |
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Abstract |
The poaching of oysters is recorded in the history of the island at least from the 18th century. As early as 1789 the theft of oysters was rife enough to see the setting up of a Protection Association to regulate the oyster trade and dissuade poaching. In 1808 a watch house was built on the Cob ... |
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Author |
John Pullen-Appleby |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Preserving the 'Mersea Pea' |
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ECS_PEA |
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Title |
Preserving the 'Mersea Pea' |
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Abstract |
TIME OUT article from Essex County Standard, transcribed by Pauline Winch
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
An Urban Dream of Mersea |
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ID |
ECS_1968_MAY03_033 |
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Title |
An Urban Dream of Mersea |
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Abstract |
... |
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Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Village Green on Mersea Shore |
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ECS_VGN |
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Title |
The Village Green on Mersea Shore |
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Abstract |
WEST MERSEA will have the most unusual village green in Essex if a move by retired general practitioner Dr Alec Grant to register a 400-yard stretch of its waterfront as a public open space is successful.
Dr Grant, a past secretary of the Mersea Island Society, has carried out the registration ... |
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c1969
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Stephanie Kay Ellis |
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ID |
ML2023_008_004 |
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Stephanie Kay Ellis |
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Abstract |
Obituary
Stephanie Kay Ellis 25 February 1961 - 3 July 2023
Dearest daughter of Ron and the late Wendy, Dearest wife of Clive, loving Mum to Charlie, Dear sister of Laurence and Sherill, Auntie to Adam, Charlotte and Jessica, Dear step mother to Scott and Gemma, Dear nanny to Ben, Poppy and ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ralph Mussett also known as Ralph Cutts Avis: a brief biography |
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ID |
CW7_RCA |
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Title |
Ralph Mussett also known as Ralph Cutts Avis: a brief biography |
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Abstract |
'Intrigued by a reference to Ralph Mussett in John Pullen Appleby's lecture series on the History of Mersea, I was inspired to research the family and answer the question why was Ralph known by two surnames and why did 'Cutts Avis' seem to be both his wife's maiden name and married name.'
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Author |
Carol Wyatt |
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Published |
June 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Buses to Mersea |
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ID |
ML2023_007_066 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Buses to Mersea |
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Abstract |
I was born in No.6 Council House, Barfield Road in February, 1932. As soon as I was able, I was up at the front window watching the different buses of four companies passing by, so I've always had an interest in buses. It appears that the very first motor bus to run between Colchester and Mersea was ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea Life - Strood Wharf |
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ML2023_006_061 |
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Title |
Mersea Life - Strood Wharf |
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Abstract |
Recently a photo was posted on a social media website showing a Berry's coach splashing through the
Strood. It raised some questions, not about the coach but the two sailing barges in the background. What were they
doing there?
Few people realise that the Strood was a busy ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Wigborough's charter of 947 |
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ID |
WIG_947 |
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Wigborough's charter of 947 |
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Abstract |
Wigborough in the dim distant past........
For most of our local villages, the furthest back in time you can get documentary evidence are entries in the Domesday Book which compares the land, owners, men and animals of 1066 with the situation in 1086, the time of the survey. In it, most of ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
David W. Gallifant. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023 |
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DWG_DNS |
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Title |
David W. Gallifant. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023 |
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Abstract |
DAVID W. GALLIFANT. 21 June 1943 - 2 Feb 2023
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Author |
Georgina Nicholls |
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Published |
11 May 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Plough Public House Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_PPH |
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Title |
Plough Public House Peldon |
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Abstract |
THE PLOUGH PUBLIC HOUSE, PELDON, ESSEX
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Bocking Hall - Arthur Winsley's Almshouses Charity Report |
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ID |
JCK_BHL_010 |
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Title |
Bocking Hall - Arthur Winsley's Almshouses Charity Report |
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Abstract |
ESSEX CHARITIES.
Report of Commissioners 1819-1837
COLCHESTER ARTHUR WINSLEY'S ALMSHOUSES re Booking Hall, West Mersea
Arthur Winsley, of the parish of All Saints, Colchester, by his Will bearing date 28th March, 1726, and proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury 17th June 1727, ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Janet Cock
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Article |
Too Good to Leave |
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ID |
MIS_2019_A18 |
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Title |
Too Good to Leave |
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Abstract |
Article published in ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
My Life by David Stoker |
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ID |
MIS_2019_A33 |
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Title |
My Life by David Stoker |
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Abstract |
Article published in ... |
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Author |
David Stoker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Barclays Bank |
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ML2023_004_061 |
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Memory Lane - Barclays Bank |
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Abstract |
The announcement that Barclays Bank on Mersea is to close brings to an end an era which began about 1894. Samuel Cant White had opened an agency for what was
Gurneys, Round, Green and Co. bank, and then in 1896 about 20 banks merged to form Barclays and Company. The first building on Mersea was a ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
History of the Peldon Rose |
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PH01_PRH |
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Title |
History of the Peldon Rose |
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Abstract |
The History of the Peldon Rose
Peldon Rose
Public House
C15, house, extensively altered early C17. Timber framed and plastered, with
red plain tile roof. One storey and attics with 2 storey crosswing at north
end. Crosswing originally jettied now underbuilt. Lean-to extension at ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Hilda Page of East Mersea |
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MIS_1968_HKP |
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Hilda Page of East Mersea |
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Abstract |
A Mersea Lady. Profile of Mrs Hilda Page of East Mersea, by Mary Tyler.
Mistral - Journal of the Mersea Island Society. Winter 1968 / 1969 pages 5 and 6.
One of the most interesting people living on Mersea is Mrs Hilda Page of West Mersea. With her mother,
she came to the island before the ... |
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Author |
Mary Tyler |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The War-Ag |
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ID |
TXB_017 |
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Title |
The War-Ag |
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Abstract |
THE WAR-AG
Throughout the 1920s and 30s UK farming was at a low ebb. Farmers were unable to
compete with cheap foreign imports of grain etc coming in from overseas and many
of the fields were left uncultivated and growing weeds.
With the outbreak of war in 1939 all that changed as ships ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Reeves Hall Farm by Ron Follington |
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ID |
RVH_FOL |
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Reeves Hall Farm by Ron Follington |
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Abstract |
REEVES HALL FARM EAST MERSEA 1962/1963
The Memories of Ron Follington.
In mid 1962 my Brother-in-Law, Bernard Richardson, had agreed to purchase Reeves
Hall Farm from the then owner, Mr Tom Dooley. The sale was to be completed by
late September that year. At the time of the negotiations ... |
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Author |
Ron Follington |
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Published |
February 2023
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
History of Malting Cottage Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_MLC |
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Title |
History of Malting Cottage Peldon |
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Abstract |
The History of Malting Cottage, Peldon.
In researching the history of this house on Malting Road in Peldon, I found early documents taking us back to the wealthy Reynolds family who were Lords of the Manor and owned Peldon Hall from 1650.
Amongst the cottage deeds is an Abstract of The ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Local Shops |
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ID |
ML2023_003_061 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Local Shops |
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Abstract |
Having just passed my ninety first birthday, I am reminiscing about my early years and my visits in my pram to the local shops. I'm sure at only a few days old I would have been tucked up and wheeled down to the Co-op grocers on the corner of Barfield and Kingsland Road. I was born in the front ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Great Reform Act of 1832 |
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ID |
PH01_GFA |
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The Great Reform Act of 1832 |
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Abstract |
Parliamentary Elections and The Great Reform Act of 1832
I came across a petition in the 31st December 1831 issue of the County Standard addressed to the King (who would have been William IV) and signed by over 1,200 men from all corners of Essex, from major towns to tiny rural villages such as ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - the village centre |
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ID |
ML2023_002_052 |
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Memory Lane - the village centre |
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Abstract |
Jack Botham was a photographer on the Island for many years after WW2. He was a keen flyer and left us a collection of over 300 aerial views, mostly taken 1959 to 1962. The photograph here is about 1962 and shows what can perhaps be thought of as ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ralph Cutts Avis [Ralph Mussett] of West Mersea killed 22 September 1914 |
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ID |
MPUB_NJN_006 |
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Ralph Cutts Avis [Ralph Mussett] of West Mersea killed 22 September 1914 |
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Abstract |
WW1 Memorial Profiles for West Mersea
RALPH CUTTS AVIS (also known as Ralph Mussett)
Yeoman of Signals Service No. 191425 (RFR/CH/B/6683)
HMS CRESSY, Royal Navy
Died 22 September 1914 age 35.
No known grave
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Author |
Roger Bullen |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Bertie Woods of East Mersea killed 11 August 1917 |
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ID |
MPUB_NJN_113 |
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Bertie Woods of East Mersea killed 11 August 1917 |
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Abstract |
WW1 Memorial Profiles for West Mersea
BERTIE WOODS
Acting Bombardier, Service No. 32434
Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 11 August 1917 aged 26
Buried Maroc British Cemetery, Nord
Commemorated on East Mersea War Memorial
Bertie Woods was born on Mersea Island in 1891, the son of ... |
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Author |
Roger Bullen |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
History of Ives Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_IVS |
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History of Ives Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
An early postcard showing Ives Farm. On the right is the gate and entrance to the footpath leading
up to Church Road. View looking south.
Although Ives Farm and the hill on which it stands have, in modern times, been known as St. Ives it ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
River Colne on its way to the Sea by Douglas Went |
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ID |
DW18 |
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River Colne on its way to the Sea by Douglas Went |
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A collection of photographs by Douglas Went or the River Colne making its way down to the sea. The location of the first photograph is not yet known but an early photograph is at Great Maplestead. The collection ends at Brightlingsea, having had a brief a foray into the Blackwater.
None of the ... |
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Author |
Douglas Went |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Merriel Gallifant
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Article |
May and Bean family history from Willoughby John Bean |
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ID |
FBQ_102 |
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Title |
May and Bean family history from Willoughby John Bean |
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Abstract |
It was Edward May of Coppid Hall [ Copt Hall ], indeed I believe there were two of these and both are buried at West Mersea - no William May there -
Mr Quincey the Timber Merchant of London put his savings into land in Essex and Suffolk. He first had as his estate agent a Mr. William Newman ... |
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Author |
Willoughby John Bean |
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Published |
1930s
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Alan Brook
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Article |
Memory Lane - Local Carriers |
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ID |
ML2023_001_064 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Local Carriers |
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Abstract |
These days we see white vans delivering parcels everywhere, but what was it like in years gone by? How did parcels get - say from Mersea into Colchester for instance. Most villages had a carriers service, usually a horse drawn covered cart which doubled as a bus. It was not unusual when travelling ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Tendles |
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ID |
ML2022_012_064 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Tendles |
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Abstract |
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
When I put the question to my 'Children' who are all in their sixties, do you know what a tendle is? I just got blank looks, yet tendle making was very much a Green family craft. The tendle is it seems, very much a Mersea thing. It ... |
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Published |
December 2022
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Brick House Farm alias Chestnuts, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_CTN |
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Title |
Brick House Farm alias Chestnuts, Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Chestnuts Farm, Great Wigborough, formerly known as Brick House Farm, is situated North west side of and with
a frontage to the road from Maldon to Mersea. It ceased being a working farm many years ago and most of the land was sold off to a local farmer. Up until the 1990s it used to ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Baring Gould and "Mehalah" |
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ID |
EADT_1924_JAN |
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Title |
Baring Gould and "Mehalah" |
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Abstract |
" Mehalah" was not only written when Mr. Baring-Gould held the Crown living of East Mersea, but the whole scene of the story is located in the immediate neighbourhood in which the novelist then occasionally resided.
At that time I held the curacy of Kelvedon, a little town on the mainline, and ... |
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1924
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Source |
Mersea Museum / John Hawes
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Article |
Brick House Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_BHF |
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Title |
Brick House Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
BRICK HOUSE FARM
Brick House Farm, this photograph was probably taken in the harsh winter of 1947
Built circa 1780 originally timber framed, the red brick cladding is of 1885,
subsequent to earthquake damage. Two storeys, with ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Old Mersea Barns |
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ID |
ML2022_011_064 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Old Mersea Barns |
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Abstract |
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
There were over twenty farms on Mersea, and pretty well every farm of any significance had a large wooden barn, most of a similar design. Their main purpose was for storing the harvest which would have been in sheaves stored in the wings. They ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Greens of West Mersea |
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ID |
ML2022_010_060 |
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Title |
The Greens of West Mersea |
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Abstract |
There have been two separate families GREEN living in West Mersea for over two hundred years. I am the product of a union of the two families when my father Leslie Green married my mother Edna Mehala Green on November 11th in 1927. Not only have the two families lived on Mersea Island during that ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
October 2022
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane: Mill Road |
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ID |
ML2022_009_063 |
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Title |
Memory Lane: Mill Road |
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Abstract |
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
For this month we have a panoramic view of Mill Road of over 100 years ago, looking to the northwest. The east side of the road is largely open fields.
Going from left to right, we have ... |
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Published |
September 2022
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
History of Moor Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_MRF |
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Title |
History of Moor Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
History of Moor Farm, Peldon
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Games Farmhouse, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_GMF |
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Title |
Games Farmhouse, Peldon |
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Abstract |
GAMES FARMHOUSE
The front of Games Farm, Lower Road, Peldon, pictured in the early 1960s
Games Farmhouse
Early C15 small hall house. Timber framed, with red plain tile half hipped
roof. Two storeys. Two window range ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Home Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_HFS |
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Title |
Home Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
C14 or C15 hall house with gabled crosswings. Timber framed and plastered
with red plain tile roof. Two storey wing, remainder one storey and attics.
Wings were originally jettied but are now underbuilt and they are hipped at
rear. ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Villages of Great and Little Wigborough by the Rev. James Allen |
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ID |
EC66_04_A432 |
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Title |
The Villages of Great and Little Wigborough by the Rev. James Allen |
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Abstract |
The summer visitor on his way to Mersea Island from the direction of Maldon will pass through the villages of Great
and Little Wigborough. He will see the signs indicating the village names, but he will fail to see a "village" as
one usually understands the meaning of the word. The church is in ... |
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Author |
Rev. James Allen |
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Published |
April 1966
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The First Regattas at West Mersea |
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ID |
REG_1980_PGM_A41 |
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Title |
The First Regattas at West Mersea |
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Abstract |
THE FIRST REGATTAS
by Hervey Benham
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Author |
Hervey Benham |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane: West Mersea Town Regatta |
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ID |
ML2022_008_063 |
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Title |
Memory Lane: West Mersea Town Regatta |
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Abstract |
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
West Mersea Town Regatta has been running since at least 1838 with gaps for wars and so on. The first regattas we know about took place in front of Mersea Cottage, later to become Orleans and then New Orleans. There was a band on the beach below ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
August 2022
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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