1. Ice around the houseboats in the hard winter 1962 - 1963. MEG MERRILIES and beyond her FATHOM ex DOROTHY, a former Admiralty ammunition barge.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_013

2. Hove Creek and houseboats.
Image ID ATK_033

3. Houseboat on it side after a very high tide
Date: 1980
Image ID BJ17_021

4. High tide on Coast Road
Date: Before 1975
Image ID BJ17_023

5. High tide on Coast Road
Date: Before 1975
Image ID BJ17_029

6. Houseboats after the 1953 flood.
Date: cFebruary 1953
Image ID BJ17_031

7. SEAHORSE and other houseboats after the 1953 flood.
Date: cFebruary 1953
Image ID BJ17_035

8. High Tide on Coast Road, West Mersea. Houseboats
Image ID BJ57_015_001

9. Houseboat PEGGOTTY.
Date: 1955
Image ID BJ57_017_001

10. Fid Harnack's BEN GUNN in her mud berth at West Mersea.
Date: November 1970
Image ID CT02_085

11. Houseboats. ERYCINA (left) and EVANDRA (Fifie) formerly WMYC headquarters. In 1910 EVANDRA is mentioned in Yachting World [BOX115_001] as providing ...
Date: Before September 1913
Image ID CW5_093

12. Houseboats at West Mersea. Postcard mailed September 1909 from The Rest, W. Mersea.
"We have been living on the sea, only sleeping at house. The children ...
Date: Before September 1909
Image ID CW6_031

13. Houseboats along Coast Road, West Mersea. COLUMBINE and HISPANIA in centre.
Ektachrome slide 19
Image ID CW8_013

14. Houseboat in a creek - Fen Farm East Mersea. Early tents in the distance just to the right of it.
The houseboat was owned by a retired ballet teacher and ...
Date: c1930
Image ID DBO_003

15. The Strood. Barge VICTA, looking somewhat derelict.
VICTA built 1874, Official No. 67085, formerly & CO.
Image ID DBO_017

16. HISPANIA leaving Mersea for restoration. Tug HOFLAND.
Date: 1997
Image ID DEP_HIS_035

17. High Tide by Hove Creek. Houseboat DOLPHIN - originally an RNLI self-righting lifeboat.

A photograph from Jill McDonough shown at the Mersea Island ...
Date: c2022
Image ID DIS2022_MPS_001

18. Houseboats from Coast Road. The MARY MILLER prominent in left background, was built Carrickfergus in 1881, Official Number 83974. She was owned in 1892 by John ...
Image ID FL12_009_001

19. Houseboat Fire. The houseboat ERYCINA at present occupied by Mrs Garrioch and her sister Mrs Goddard, was extensively damaged by fire on Monday afternoon. The ...
Date: 27 October 1941
Image ID FL14_013_009

20. MEG MERRILIES houseboat. An early photograph before any deckhouses were added.
Date: 1930
Image ID GRS_OPA_001

21. MEG MERRILEES. Sue's Mum 1930 [Mrs Sprake]
Date: 1930
Image ID GRS_OPA_003

22. Houseboat MEG MERRILEES 1931
Date: 1931
Image ID GRS_OPA_013

23. MEG MERRILEES 1931 Freda
Date: 1931
Image ID GRS_OPA_015

24. Houseboat NANCY LEE. Sue's Mum [Mrs Sprake] houseboats at bottom of Hove Hill.
Image ID GRS_OPA_025

25. Houseboat SEAHORSE after the 1953 Floods.
Date: cFebruary 1953
Image ID HAD01_016

26. ERYCINA houseboat, Coast Road, West Mersea
Image ID HBD_023

27. Houseboat COLUMBINE at West Mersea, nearing the end of her days. NADINE is behind her.
COLUMBINE was broken up January 2023.

COLUMBINE was built ...
Date: 22 Sep 2021
Image ID HBT_CBN_001

28. Houseboat LA NOISETTE at West Mersea early 1920s. The boat was owned by Charles Simpson Mason, born 1860 and died 1926. It is thought she then became the MARSH ...
Date: c1923
Image ID HBT_LNO_001

29. Hove Creek - houseboats in the distance. SEAHORSE is still on the edge of the saltings.
Date: c1930
Image ID HBT_OPA_013

30. Demolition of Graham Baker's houseboat OTHONA at West Mersea. She is thought to have come to West Mersea around 1934.

OTHONA ex LADY RUTH Wood Yawl ...
Date: 1 Feb 2021
Image ID HBT_OTH_003