61. Frozen sea piled up on West Mersea beach. Date: 1980s Image ID DJN_071 |
62. Frozen sea piled up on West Mersea beach Date: 1980s Image ID DJN_073 |
63. The weekend snow storm soon claimed its victims. This bus missed the road at East Mersea and finished with a front wheel in a ditch.
Eastern National ... Date: 5 January 1962 Image ID DM1_AB5_043_001 |
64. Children from West Mersea watching the helicopter which landed in the school grounds to collect supplies for the ships cut off in the River ... Date: 1 February 1963 Image ID ECS_1963_FEB01_012 |
65. Days when it 'rained and blowed'
An old leather bound diary provided Jill Waterhouse with a gloomy insight into life at West Mersea in the ni ... Date: 28 April 1967 Image ID ECS_1967_APR28_024 |
66. Outside the White Hart after 12" of snow in 1958.
Ron Pamment, George Milgate, Cyril 'Lizzie' Green.
From Album 5. Date: cFebruary 1958 Image ID FL05_042_002 |
67. 1958 a very bad winter. Morris Minor struggling in the snow outside the White Hart.
Nathan 'Din' Hoy and his son Hossy.
From Album 5. Date: cFebruary 1958 Image ID FL05_044_002 |
68. 'Duke' Mussett's oyster sheds along Coast Road, in the hard winter of 1962/63.
From Album 5. Date: cJanuary 1963 Image ID FL05_044_003 |
69. The Big Freeze 1962-63
From Album 9. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID FL09_014_003 |
70. Peter French and Beryl Milgate - on the Causeway during the Big Freeze of 1963.
From Album 10. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID FL10_019_005 |
71. Ice. Peter French. Shell ex Eagle Oil tanker laid up in the river. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID FRP_OPA_003 |
72. Smack in the ice. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID FRP_OPA_011 |
73. Nothe Cottages, Wyatt's slipway, Gowens sailmakers, in the bad winter of 1963. View from the end of the causeway. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID GA02_021 |
74. Strood Channel from the Nothe in the bad winter of 1963. Hulk of PIONEER in background.. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID GA02_023 |
75. Victory Hotel - winter 1962-63 Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID HEM_OPA_033 |
76. Icy winter. Packing Shed in the distance. Image ID HEM_OPA_125 |
77. Dennis Hewes on Coast Road after the 1953 flood Date: cFebruary 1953 Image ID HEWK_OPA_005 |
78. Charlie Hewes Date: January 1940 Image ID HEWK_OPA_053 |
79. Houseboats after the 1953 Flood. Houseboat MAUREEN nearest road was owned by Mrs Major, and is untouched, but Jack Botham's houseboat the WAVERLEY astern is ... Date: cMarch 1953 Image ID HWC_AB3_031 |
80. Ice in the Blackwater in the hard winter 1962/1963. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID HWC_WIN_003 |
81. The causeway during the hard winter 1962/1963. Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID HWC_WIN_005 |
82. The Hard in the cold winter of 1940. Photograph from Blanche Hewes. Date: 23 January 1940 Image ID HWG_001 |
83. Laid up shipping and an icy River Blackwater, taken from Bradwell in the icy winter of 1962-1963. Date: cJanuary 1963 Image ID IA003440 |
84. West Mersea beach with the ice piled up in the hard winter of 1962-63. Date: January 1963 Image ID IA003450 |
85. Ice piled up on the beach at West Mersea, in the hard winter of 1962-63. There was a lot of ice in the river and the creeks round Mersea were all frozen, except ... Date: cJanuary 1963 Image ID IA003451 |
86. RAF Rescue Helicopter on the School Field, West Mersea. It was being used to supply the laid-up ships in the River Blackwater during the cold winter of 1962-63. ... Date: 23 January 1963 Image ID IA003490 |
87. Sitting on the yacht BIDDY in the snow.
L-R George French, Ted Vince, Joe Hempstead, Alf Hempstead Date: 1917 Image ID JAY_D17_001 |
88. Jack Botham's shop on Coast Road in the snow. The car is ORK909 or possibly DRK909. Date: Before 1967 Image ID JAY_JBM_001 |
89. Hove Hill, Coast Road 1958
Owen Fletchers says of htis photo: "I remember as a boy, a swing that was attached at a fair height on one of the large elms ... Date: cFebruary 1958 Image ID LEK_OPA_025 |
90. 1987 Hurricane. Kingsland Road by the surgery. Date: 16 October 1987 Image ID LH3_003 |