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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
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Article |
Peldon Hall |
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ID |
PH01_PHF |
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Title |
Peldon Hall |
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Abstract |
Peldon Hall
A Hammond postcard of Peldon Hall, its barn and lake circa 1911
Referred to as a 'mansion-house' by Philip Morant in his History of Essex (published in 1768) the building called Peldon Hall that we see today - ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
JINNIE - Oyster Skiff |
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ID |
WKB_001 |
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Title |
JINNIE - Oyster Skiff |
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Abstract |
JINNIE was also spelled JINNY
JINNIE [ JINNY ] CK141
2.54gross registered tons motor fishing vessel. 21.6'x8.6'x2.6'. 20' keel. completed 1948 for Edwin
Richard Haward (master), West Mersea. 16/6/1948 Number allocated. 18/7/1964 To Lillian Dorothy Haward, West
Mersea. 13/4/1972 To ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Jack Emeny - shipwright |
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ID |
MNY |
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Title |
Jack Emeny - shipwright |
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Abstract |
Jack Emeny was an accomplished shipwright who worked at Wyatts in the years after WW2, and later built boats
on his own account.
Ernest John 'Jack' Emeny was born in Suffolk and worked at Whisstock's Yard in Woodbridge.
After ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole |
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ID |
PH01_PHL |
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Title |
Butlers Farm Peldon and Peldon Hole |
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Abstract |
Butlers Farm, Peldon
and Peldon Hole
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Winter Snow |
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ID |
ML2025_001_049 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Winter Snow |
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Abstract |
For this issue we have selected snowy scenes from our museum archives. They were taken by Jack Botham, a photographer on the Island who had a photographic shop in Coast Road.
The first picture shows Orleans Corner. At this time, the ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse |
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ID |
PH01_PWP |
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Title |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse |
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Abstract |
Stories of Peldon People in the workhouse
In writing an article about the poorhouse in Peldon and the subsequent building in 1837 of the Stanway Union Workhouse which took in the poor of Peldon, I found the names of many who had ended up in the workhouse, through no fault of their own. I felt ... |
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Keywords |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
December 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Working in Wartime Colchester |
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ID |
TXB_032 |
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Title |
Working in Wartime Colchester |
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Abstract |
Copy of an account of the bombing of St. Botolph's Corner, Colchester, in WW2 written by Phyllis Taylor 1944/5
and submitted to Mersea Museum by her daughter November 2024. Transcribed by Elaine Barker.
When war started, I went to work for Woods Engineering works in Denmark Street. The ... |
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Author |
Phyllis Taylor |
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Published |
1945
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm |
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ID |
PH01_SWK |
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Title |
Sampton Wick Peldon, formerly White House Farm |
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Abstract |
Sampton Wick Farmhouse formerly White House Farm, Peldon
Sampton Wick
Grade II listed
Early C14 hall house, with crosswing. Timber framed and plastered with red
plain tile roof. Two storeys to cross wing, remainder one storey and attics.
1:3 window range modern casements. One gabled ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_HVF |
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Title |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Harvey's Farm, Peldon
According to Reaney in The Place Names of Essex, the name 'Harvey' of Peldon's Harvey's Farm dates back to 1366 when a John Hervy was listed as a holder of property in Peldon in a document called 'the Feet of Fines', an early record of land transactions. According to a ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project |
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ID |
EHWB_001 |
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Title |
Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project |
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Abstract |
Introducing Essex Heritage Workboats Mersea Hub Project
There has never been such an approach to document the heritage of Essex by building a register around the heritage working vessels, their people and communities. As time ... |
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Author |
Helen Swift |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sampson's Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_SMP |
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Title |
Sampson's Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
SAMPSON'S FARM, PELDON
An aerial view of Sampson's Farm and its barns. Photo by Jack Botham 1963
Sampson's Farmhouse in Peldon is located up a long private lane close to the sea wall and is owned and occupied by farmers, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Newpots Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_NPT |
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Title |
Newpots Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
NEWPOTS FARM
Newpots Farm photographed in 2006 © Copyright Glyn Baker and used under
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Adder Man of Langenhoe |
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ID |
PH01_TDA |
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Title |
The Adder Man of Langenhoe |
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Abstract |
The Adder Man of Langenhoe
In July 1937, Patience Allen née Brundle, died in Wayside Cottage, Peldon at the age of 92. A native of Suffolk, her parents had kept the Queen's Head Hotel in the village of Eye and it was there Patience married Edwin Samuel Allen, son of a farmer living in ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Postcard Collecting |
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ID |
ML2024_011_052 |
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Title |
Postcard Collecting |
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Abstract |
I was introduced to the hobby of collecting old postcards by my dear friend the late Brian Jay. Brian was for many years president of the Colchester & District Card Collectors Club. My main collection is of postcards depicting sailing barges of which I have 600. I also have a sizable collection of ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Rose Cottage, Mersea Road, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_RCA |
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Title |
Rose Cottage, Mersea Road, Peldon |
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Abstract |
ROSE COTTAGE, MERSEA ROAD, PELDON
According to sale particulars from 1987 held by Essex Record Office, Rose Cottage on the Mersea Road,
Peldon, is an unlisted eighteenth century house. A four-bedroomed property and on the market for
offers in the region of £85,000 it was described ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Fid Harnack - Marine Artist |
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ID |
FID_042 |
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Title |
Fid Harnack - Marine Artist |
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Abstract |
Fid Harnack, Marine Artist
John Leather paints a portrait in print
From Yachts and Yachting
A quarter century ago, rowing a pram dinghy around the evening anchorage under Mersea Stone, at the mouth of the river Colne, ... |
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Author |
John Leather |
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Keywords |
buzzun, besom |
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Published |
6 January 1976
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
David James Green by Ron Green |
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ID |
ML2024_010_018 |
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Title |
David James Green by Ron Green |
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Abstract |
An appreciation of the life of David James Green by Ron Green
David passed away peacefully at home on the morning of August 30th. He was 89 years old.
David was my special life long friend who I first met when he was some three of four years old. I was living in Barfield Road at the time ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
October 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough |
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ID |
LWG_GRV |
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Title |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Grove Farm, Little Wigborough
Grove Farm on Copt Hall Lane in Little Wigborough, situated near an ancient piece of woodland called Copt
Hall Grove, is a grade II listed early seventeenth century farmhouse. In 1922 the Royal Commission on
Historical Monuments described it thus
Grove ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
hurricane |
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Published |
September 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett |
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ID |
MSH_LNY |
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Title |
Memories of a Laney by Harry Thomas Mussett |
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Abstract |
MEMORIES OF A LANEY
by Harry Thomas Mussett
THE CITY HALL
On Thursday afternoons, at the City Hall, there used to be a Women's meeting. Mother said, "You don't have to
go to school this afternoon. You can come to the Meeting with me." Well, anything was better than going to
school, so ... |
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Author |
Harry Thomas Mussett |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like |
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ID |
COR1_175_A01 |
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Title |
WW2 on Mersea - what it was really like |
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Abstract |
Who do you think you are kidding ?
Letter by Peter Tucker in Courier 175, in response to an article in Courier 172. [The article is in Mersea Museum
archives but is not yet available here].
Dear Editor
I had hoped that it would not be necessary for me
to write again on this ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Published |
c1998
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Bombs on Mersea |
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ID |
ML2024_009_054 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Bombs on Mersea |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane Bombs on Mersea
People find it hard to believe that so many bombs fell on Mersea Island during World War Two. There is a bomb map that shows the location of more than 140 bombs, but official records suggest the total was at least double this.
Many bombs were quite small - ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
September 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner. |
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ID |
EAM_1965_005_A01 |
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Title |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner. |
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Abstract |
Salcott-Cum-Virley by Eric Rayner.
From East Anglian Magazine May 1965
Transcribed by Joe Vince July 2024
A small Essex village forms a link with the Gunpowder Plot
The marshes; mud, grass, sea lavender, salt water, ... |
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Author |
Eric Rayner |
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Keywords |
salcot |
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Published |
May 1965
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family |
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ID |
FBN_WHB_001 |
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Title |
'Remarkable' rare envelope to be sold: the Bean family |
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Abstract |
The Essex County Standard in November 1999 featured a rare envelope, which was to be sold at auction in London on 16th December. The letter's rarity was due to it having been sent by someone serving with the British Army on the Chin Lushai Expedition of 1880 - 1890. Its local connection was the fact ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day. |
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ID |
EC69_10_A01 |
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Title |
Ted Allen. Personally Speaking by James Wentworth Day. |
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Abstract |
PERSONALLY SPEAKING by James Wentworth Day
Wily as a fox, silent as the otter, hardy as the wild goose, with the ears of an owl and the sight
of a falcon, Ted Allen was the genius of the marsh, of the wide and deadly mud flats, a stalker of the
creeks and a son of the salt tides.
I ... |
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Author |
James Wentworth Day |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea's Working Horses |
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ID |
ML2024_008_065 |
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Title |
Mersea's Working Horses |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Mersea's working horses
Apart from the farm horses, there were still a number of horses working with local businesses on Mersea in my
memory. I started work with Clifford White & Co. Builders in 1946 and at that time there were two horses stabled in the Barfield Road yard. Tony, ... |
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August 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The May Family from Willoughy John Bean |
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ID |
FBQ_104 |
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Title |
The May Family from Willoughy John Bean |
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Abstract |
The May Family. Vol III Page 1
Transcribed from 21 handwritten pages, thought to have been written by Willoughby John Bean.
The pages end abruptly - page 22 has not been found.
Documents with thanks to Alan Brook, whose father had lived in West Mersea Hall. Transcribed by ... |
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Author |
Willoughby John Bean |
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Published |
1930s
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside |
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ID |
EC65_09_A01 |
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Title |
Round Mersea Island from Essex Countryside |
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Abstract |
ROUND MERSEA ISLAND. Afoot in Essex (6) by Frank Dawes.
From Essex Countryside magazine September 1965.
Mersea is the only Essex island to lift its head at all proudly out of the sea. The others - Foulness, Canvey,
Wallasea and a great many smaller ones - lie abject and half - drowned, ... |
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Author |
Frank Dawes |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages |
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ID |
LCM_C21 |
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Title |
21st century Writers inspired by Mersea Island and the Coastal Villages |
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Abstract |
The following 21st century writers all have connections with Mersea Island, whether once resident here or
using its unique character as a setting for their writing. While there are a number of auto-biographical books
based locally, it is novels set in this area that are my focus here.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
June 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Signposts to Mersea |
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ID |
ML2024_007_052 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Signposts to Mersea |
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Abstract |
SIGNPOSTS TO MERSEA
It is great to see the return of the signpost at the junction of Mill Road and Colchester Road, West Mersea. It has been
lovingly restored by Brian Wilsher and Jane Davis.
The top of the signpost tells us we are in the Parish of West Mersea. It also has 'E.C.C. Stick no ... |
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Author |
Ron Green and Tony Millatt |
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Published |
July 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman |
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ID |
FWS |
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Title |
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman |
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Abstract |
The article below is from the D-Day Display in Mersea Museum 2024 Summer Exhibition.
Fred Wass - hairdresser and infantryman
... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Ransomes Farm, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_RES |
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Title |
Ransomes Farm, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Ransomes Farm
Ransomes farmhouse situated on the Wigborough Road between Peldon and the Wigboroughs is a chocolate box Essex
farmhouse surrounded by large beautiful gardens and backing onto fields which offer views of Copt Grove, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
24 May 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Brands. A West Mersea Seafaring Family. |
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ID |
EC71_07_A01 |
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Title |
The Brands. A West Mersea Seafaring Family. |
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Abstract |
THE BRANDS
A WEST MERSEA SEAFARING FAMILY
Sybil Brand looks back 200 years on her father's family - from the time of William who lived in the late
eighteenth century to her father, John, who died in 1941.
In the October 1970 issue of ESSEX COUNTRYSIDE I wrote of my mother's family, the ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Sea-Country of Mehalah by J. Wentworth Day |
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ID |
BJ55_001 |
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Title |
The Sea-Country of Mehalah by J. Wentworth Day |
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Abstract |
The Sea-Country of Mehalah by J. Wentworth Day.
From Geographical Magazine, date unknown
Warning if you read this article, it will tell you far too much of the story of Mehalah. Read the book first, and then the article will provide good background.!
The full article is available here ... |
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Author |
James Wentworth Day |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Sabine Baring Gould The Essex Connection: Mehalah and Richard Cable |
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ID |
LCM_SBG |
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Title |
Sabine Baring Gould The Essex Connection: Mehalah and Richard Cable |
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Abstract |
Sabine Baring Gould The Essex Connection: Mehalah and Richard Cable
My current area of research is looking into writers of fiction who used the local area on and around Mersea Island in Essex, as the setting for their novels.
Perhaps the most famous is that written by The Reverend ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
broadmarsh |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The Friendly Port of Colchester |
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ID |
EC63_02_A02 |
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Title |
The Friendly Port of Colchester |
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Abstract |
The Friendly Port of Colchester, by A.G. King.
From Essex Countryside February 1963, Page 164.
Dutch coasters at Colchester laden with clay. The total volume of merchandise handled at Colchester port inwards and outwards in one ... |
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Author |
A.G. King |
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Published |
February 1963
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
A. Ludgater - Literary Connections to the Blackwater area |
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ID |
LCM_LUD |
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Title |
A. Ludgater - Literary Connections to the Blackwater area |
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Abstract |
Alfred Ludgater: Mistress of Broad Marsh
Alfred Ludgater, the author of the novel Mistress of Broad Marsh, was a local man, born in Tolleshunt D'Arcy in 1858 to Samuel Ludgater, a tailor, and wife Sarah who were both also born in D'Arcy. His antecedents were Quakers from Coggeshall.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Sent as article on literary connections to Mersea and environs Ludgater.docx
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Article |
Memory Lane - Mersea Island Golf Club |
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ID |
ML2024_005_061 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Mersea Island Golf Club |
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Abstract |
MERSEA ISLAND GOLF CLUB
I was delighted to see on Facebook the Golf Club advertising notice that Toni Vince found in papers belonging to her Grandfather, William Brunt.
My first connection with this club, strangely enough, was before ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Manna from Heaven |
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ID |
ML2024_004_062 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Manna from Heaven |
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Abstract |
Manna from Heaven - well, not quite.
Soon after the end of world war two, a ship sailing up the English Channel ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. This was in 1946 or 47. she soon broke in half spilling her cargo of sacks of flour into the channel. Several of these sacks ended up on Mersea Beach ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
April 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Margery Allingham - Mistral Magazine |
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ID |
MIS_2005_A30 |
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Title |
Margery Allingham - Mistral Magazine |
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Abstract |
Article published in ... |
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Author |
Sylvia Gower |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Margery Allingham - literary connections to Mersea |
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ID |
LCM_AHM |
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Title |
Margery Allingham - literary connections to Mersea |
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Abstract |
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
Many of you will have read novels by Margery Allingham or seen dramatizations on TV; perhaps her most famous series of books feature the quirky detective Albert Campion. Eight of her Campion mysteries were televised in 1989 and 1990 across two series starring Peter ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh |
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ID |
MIS_2021_A36 |
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Title |
Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh |
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Abstract |
DRAINAGE
It's amazing how quickly the headlines change
..... Brexit ........ Flooding ........ Coronavirus .......
Article published in ... |
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Author |
Sarah Shehadeh |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Dora Greenwell McChesney - literary connections to Mersea |
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ID |
LCM_DMY |
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Title |
Dora Greenwell McChesney - literary connections to Mersea |
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Abstract |
Literary connections to Mersea
Dora Greenwell McChesney
I first became aware of American author, Dora Greenwell McChesney (1871 - 1912), following the chance finding by a researcher friend of an article Dora had written about Mersea Island in the Wichita Eagle newspaper dated 16th November ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Salcot Wigborough and Salcot Virley: Salmon's Essex 1740 |
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ID |
TBM_SAL_103 |
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Title |
Salcot Wigborough and Salcot Virley: Salmon's Essex 1740 |
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Abstract |
SALCOT WIGBOROUGH and SALCOT VIRLEY: Salmon's Essex 1740
[Nathaniel Salmon (1675 - 1742) was an antiquarian who wrote a number of books on local history, principally Hertfordshire, Surrey and Essex.]
Page 439
Salcot Wigborough - a hamlet of Great Wigborough contains about 140 ... |
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Author |
Nathaniel Salmon |
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Published |
1740
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
The House of Marney: John Goodwin alias Sidney David Gowing |
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ID |
LCM_GNG |
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Title |
The House of Marney: John Goodwin alias Sidney David Gowing |
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Abstract |
The House of Marney: John Goodwin (alias Sidney David Gowing)
John Goodwin was a nom de plume for author Sidney David Gowing (1877 - 1943) who lived for a few years on Mersea Island - his widow was to stay on Mersea until her death in 1969. Below is the only picture I have found of Gowing, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon Village Pump |
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ID |
PH01_PMP |
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Title |
Peldon Village Pump |
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Abstract |
Peldon Village Pump
The remains of the village pump as it is today (2019)
We still have the fly wheel part of Peldon's village pump visible near the village sign next to The Plough on Lower Road. For many years the pump supplied ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Memory Lane - Grannie's Playground |
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ID |
ML2024_001_051 |
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Title |
Memory Lane - Grannie's Playground |
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Abstract |
Memory Lane - Grannie's Playground
From Ron Green and Tony Millatt, Mersea Museum
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Work has started - and stopped - on the fence of the enclosure along Coast Road known locally as 'Grannie's Playground'. The reason is the concern ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
January 2024
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Archaeological investigations at Brierley Paddocks Development |
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ID |
BPD_CLM |
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Title |
Archaeological investigations at Brierley Paddocks Development |
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Abstract |
Archaeological Investigations at Brierley Paddocks, West Mersea
The Brierley Paddocks development was on land between Cross Lane and Seaview Avenue. There had to be an
archaeological investigation on the site, and as was expected, there were some interesting find.
In October 2023 Callum ... |
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Author |
Callum Allsop |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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