1. The Fire Brigade parade at the funeral of Gordon Mussett at West Mersea.
Includes Oscar Whiting, Jim Mussett, Claude Green, Godfrey Allen.
Date: October 1952
Image ID ALN_FIR_001

2. West Mersea Fire Brigade - Fordson Thames fire engine GLC534 being replaced with the new Dodge 758JNO. Photograph at the Fire Station in Melrose Road.
Date: April 1957
Image ID ALN_JNO_001

3. West Mersea Fire Brigade - Fordson Thames fire engine GLC534 being replaced with new Dodge 758JNO. Outside the Melrose Road Fire Station.
L-R 1. Oscar ...
Date: April 1957
Image ID ALN_JNO_003

4. Mr Charles Scott's journey through the village, towed by firemen.
Date: 13 July 1932
Image ID BS01_035

5. Penfold's DIY, Barfield Road, West Mersea, formerly Clifford White Builders. At the height of the blaze 5 fire appliances and an aerial ladder from Colchester ...
Date: 20 April 1999
Image ID DIS2006_FIR_N07

6. West Mersea Fire Brigade - crew of 2004.
Left to right Back row Robert Dean, lan Moncur, Nigel Balls
Middle row Mick James, Maurice Board, Gary ...
Date: 2004
Image ID DIS2006_FIR_N16

7. 1998 Dennis Sabre Fire Appliance
R141 WVX was delivered to West Mersea fire station on the 4th October 2003. It had been at the station three weeks ...
Date: March 2006
Image ID DIS2006_FIR_N23

8. Fire siren used on Mersea and loaned by Jonathan Mussett of West Mersea Fire Brigade. In later years it was sited behind the Fire Station in Melrose Road and ...
Date: 2019
Image ID DIS2019_011

9. West Mersea Volunteer Fire Brigade. Left Mr Cathercole, Horace Whiting, Herbert Burgess.
Right Gordon Mussett, Gunner Burgess, Alec Green
The cart is ...
Date: c1929
Image ID FL04_033_002

10. West Mersea Firemen marching in Armistice Day Parade, outside the Griffon Garage.
Roughly L-R 'Ike' Ivan King, Les Phillips, Len Coles, Horace Whiting, ...
Date: 1950s
Image ID FL04_035_001

11. The Fire Brigade parade at the funeral of Gordon Mussett at West Mersea.
The parade includes Oscar Whiting, Jim Mussett, Claude Green, Godfrey ...
Date: October 1952
Image ID FL04_035_002

12. West Mersea Fire Brigade - the wartime AFS fire engine.
L-R Oscar Whiting, Ernie Dixon, Gordon Mussett, Bob Russell, HoraceWhiting and Bob ...
Date: c1943
Image ID FL04_038_001

13. West Mersea Fire Brigade. The fire engine is an American car (Hudson Terraplane Bell) converted with a wooden back, for Fire Service use.
L-R Gordon ...
Date: c1945
Image ID FL04_038_002

14. 1944 wartime NFS Fire engine. L-R Hodge ( Arthur John ) Hewes, Ron Farrow from Copford, Dick Howard, Oscar Whiting, Ted Wright of Wrights Haulage. LFM ...
Date: c1949
Image ID FL04_039_001

15. West Mersea Fire Brigade with wartime NFS engine - an Austin A.T.V.
L-R LFM Hollohan, Ernie Dixon, Ed Payne, Gordon Mussett, Herbert Burgess, Ron Farrow. ...
Date: c1949
Image ID FL04_039_002

16. West Mersea Fire Brigade - Oscar Whiting receiving his reitrement present. He had served for 36 years.
L-R 'Chummy' Mole, Les Greenleaf, Ron Clamp or Bill ...
Image ID FL07_019_003

17.
West Mersea Fire Engine. L-R front Gary Mussett, Chris Mussett, David 'Moe' Mussett and Jonathan Mussett, with son-in-law Mick Way in the cab.
From The ...
Date: 30 November 1992
Image ID GAZ_1992_NOV30_P08_001

18. An early 1930s Carnival at Queens Corner passing the Cartwright's Shed, Fountain Hotel (both demolished to build Fountain Court) and Fountain Cottage.
In ...
Date: c1931
Image ID HAN_FIR_001

19. Mersea Firemen trying new helmets.
L-R back 1. Horace Whiting, 2. Jack Cook, 3. Edgar Jopson, 4. Cliff Smith, 5. Cather Cole, 6. Tim Mole, 7. Gordon ...
Date: Before 1935
Image ID HAN_FIR_007

20. A fireman's wedding. Gordon Mussett and Catherine Heywood leave St. Peter and St. Paul Church after their marriage on 8 March 1930. Gordon's fellow West Mersea ...
Date: 8 March 1930
Image ID HAN_FIR_009

21. Water Tower fire. Fire brigade with hose.
Date: May 1931
Image ID IA01_733

22. West Mersea Fire Brigade. This engine was probably a Merryweather. It was bought by public subscription through local fetes, dances etc.
Back row Drummer ...
Date: c1938
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23. Mersea Firemen parade in Barfield Road, Wings for Victory Week World War 2 Mersea Firemen Victory Parade Names.
L-R Alan Lee, Cliff Smith, Chippy Pullen ...
Date: 25 May 1943
Image ID LH17_FIRE_023

24. West Mersea Firemen. Herbert Burgess, Gordon Mussett, Edgar Jopson, Ernie Dixon.
Image ID LH17_FIRE_025

25. Beetle back Dodge Fire Engine 758JNO attending a fire in Jack Botham's kitchen in Coast Road. Howard's Stores in Church Road is in the background.
Date: 1959
Image ID LH17_FIRE_072

26. West Mersea Firemen with Dodge fire engine 758JNO outside Melrose Road Fire Station.
L-R Oscar Whiting, Arthur Mills, Len Cole, Harold Cutts, Jim Mussett, ...
Date: 1956
Image ID LH17_FIRE_073

27. West Mersea firemen freed Mrs Brenda Marriage from the wreckage of her car in a deep ditch at Peldon.
From Rose Harvey Scrapbook LH29.
Image ID LH29_025_002

28. Fire Brigade c1939 in Melrose Road (back of Chatters). Gordon Mussett, Herbert Burgess, Edgar Jopson, Ernie Dixon.
Date: c1939
Image ID LH60_019

29. Fire Brigade. Dennis fire engine LWC712J.
Date: 1970s
Image ID LH60_029

30. West Mersea Volunteer Fire Brigade c1929 - Horry Whitings backyard (opposite Bambrough's chemist)
L-R Jack Cook, Edgar Jopson, Gordon Mussett, Arthur ...
Date: c1929
Image ID MB02_001