31. Houseboats at West Mersea - LCA and steel barge. Date: August 2006 Image ID HBT_011 |
32. L-R OTHONA, LORNA, SALTWIND, GYPSY ROSE, No40.
OTHONA was broken up February 2021 and GYPSY ROSE left September 2023. Image ID HBT_013 |
33. 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 |
34. 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 |
35. Hove Creek - houseboats in the distance. SEAHORSE is still on the edge of the saltings. Date: c1930 Image ID HBT_OPA_013 |
36. 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 |
37. 3D model of the 1893 houseboat OTHONA at West Mersea, from photos taken as the boat was being demolished 1 February 2021. The large deckhouse has been removed, ... Date: 1 February 2021 Image ID HBT_OTH_007 |
38. Houseboat LORNA at West Mersea. She was built as LORNA in 1875, renamed VERA and then on her centenary renamed back to LORNA. The stern has been cut back in ... Date: 22 Sep 2021 Image ID HBT_VER_001 |
39. Houseboat LORNA at West Mersea. Date: 22 Sep 2021 Image ID HBT_VER_003 |
40. Houseboats at West Mersea. L-R L'ESPERANCE, ANNA MARIA, LORNA, SALTWIND, GYPSY ROSE, NO.40 Date: 22 September 2021 Image ID HBT_VER_005 |
41. HOTSPUR 1914. She arrived at Mersea the day World War One broke out. Date: 1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_017 |
42. HOTSPUR 1914 Date: 1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_019 |
43. HOTSPUR 1914 Date: 1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_021 |
44. HOTSPUR 1914 Date: 1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_023 |
45. Arthur 'Nutty' Hempstead on HOTSPUR. Image ID HEM_OPA_035 |
46. Houseboats on Coast Road. Boy and girl unknown. EVANDRA in background. Image ID HEM_OPA_045 |
47. HOTSPUR Image ID HEM_OPA_047 |
48. HOTSPUR Image ID HEM_OPA_051 |
49. HOTSPUR crew. Gus Gentry cabin boy.
Gus Gentry was Augustus F.T. Gentry, born 1899 West Mersea, died 1989. Date: c1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_057 |
50. Geof Hempstead. HOTSPUR in background. Image ID HEM_OPA_059 |
51. HOTSPUR Image ID HEM_OPA_067 |
52. HOTSPUR under sail - she arrived West Mersea to be a houseboat the day World War 1 broke was declared. She had been built by M.E. Ratsey in Cowes in 1874. ... Date: Before 4 August 1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_069 |
53. EVANDRA Image ID HEM_OPA_071 |
54. HOTSPUR 1914 Date: 1914 Image ID HEM_OPA_075 |
55. Houseboats scuppered after the 1953 flood. VERA (later renamed LORNA, her original sailing name) and OTHONA lie healed in opposite directions. CHIQUITA and ARK ... Date: February 1953 Image ID HEM_OPA_081 |
56. Arthur 'Nutty' Hempstead and Consuelo Semprini, on board HOTSPUR. Date: c1960 Image ID HEM_OPA_107 |
57. Arthur 'Nutty' Hempstead on board HOTSPUR Date: c1960 Image ID HEM_OPA_111 |
58. HOTSPUR Image ID HEM_OPA_115 |
59. Hempstead family. Houseboats. Image ID HEM_OPA_127 |
60. Hempstead family baby Image ID HEM_OPA_131 |