61. West Mersea Beach - view from Fairhaven Court flats.
Date: 1980s
Image ID DJN_051

62. A smack on the mud off West Mersea beach - an opportunity to scrub the bottom.
Date: 1980s
Image ID DJN_053

63. Carrying the crew ashore - a smack on the mud off West Mersea beach.
Date: 1980s
Image ID DJN_055

64. West Mersea Beach near Fairhaven Avenue.
Date: 1980s
Image ID DJN_063

65. Frozen sea piled up on West Mersea beach.
Date: 1980s
Image ID DJN_071

66. Frozen sea piled up on West Mersea beach
Date: 1980s
Image ID DJN_073

67. West Mersea to be Model Resort
Mersea Beach - New Style
An impression of part of the proposed new foreshore plan at West Mersea. It shows the central ...
Date: 22 February 1946
Image ID DM1_AB4_002_002

68. Gunsite in Action. 1947!
The ammunition is soft drinks and ice cream; the "gun-crew" Mrs Stoker and Mrs Dawson. But the concrete walls of this unusual ...
Date: 27 June 1947
Image ID DM1_AB4_008_003

69. Once a strongpoint in West Mersea's defences against the Nazi invasion, this blockhouse is now a happy rendezvous for holidaymakers and local folk in search of ...
Date: 14 October 1949
Image ID DM1_AB4_021_003

70. 1939 Blanche's Cafe at the bottom of Lower Kingland Road. Mrs Veronica Smith (née Downsworth) in front.
Date: 1939
Image ID DOW_OPA_013

71. Blanche's cafe at the bottom of Lower Kingsland Road. Mrs Veronica Smith (née Downsworth) in front.
Date: 1939
Image ID DOW_OPA_017

72. Shears meadow at the end of Victoria Esplanade is at last being built upon and will bring a new element into the sea front scene.
Date: 3 May 1986
Image ID ECS_1968_MAY03_032_001

73. The skeleton of a war-time pillbox on Victoria Esplanade marks the spot where Edwardian planners had envisaged a pier.
Date: 3 May 1968
Image ID ECS_1968_MAY03_032_003

74. On the shore at "Fair Haven". Photo Mr F. Pallett
Fair Haven Temperance Resort brochure. Page 2.
Date: 1900s
Image ID FAV_004_002

75. Open Air Service on the Shore. Photo F. Pallett. Fair Haven Temperance Resort brochure. Page 7.
Date: 1900s
Image ID FAV_009_001

76. The Ever Restless Sea "Fair Haven" Photo Mr Bennett Charles.
Fair Haven Temperance Resort brochure. Page 9.
Date: 1900s
Image ID FAV_011_002

77. Another popular meeting place for lads from the 50s through to the late 60s was an area of grass between the small gunsite shop on the beach [ Searchlight Cafe ...
Image ID FL01_061_002

78. On the beach by the Searchlight Cafe.
Back 1. John 'Skidger' Green, 2. 'Chicks' Milgate, 3. David 'Mowy' Mussett
Centre 1. Graham 'Goofy' Woods, 2. ...
Image ID FL01_062_001

79. Beach Club
Back Brenda Diprose (Whiting), Sharon Lay.
Centre Colin Tucker, Stephen Farthing, Debbie Farthing, Anne Marriage, Stanley 'Bump' ...
Image ID FL03_019_001

80. MICHALAKIS on the mud near the bottom of Empress Avenue.
Beryl Milgate, Ron Pamment, Alan Pamment.
From Album 3.
Date: c14 February 1958
Image ID FL03_028_003

81. 17 Sep 1949 received from Mrs W. Holden the sum of £25 as deposit and part payment on hut and contents at West Mersea called B23. Sold for the sum of ...
Date: 17 December 2022
Image ID GBA_001

82. The Beach. Postcard 14398. Another copy of this card ws posted 6 July 1926
Date: Before July 1926
Image ID GEO_001_009

83. Girl Guides West Mersea Cooking & Camp Fire.
Date: 1976
Image ID GG04_006_001

84. Girl Guides West Mersea Cooking & Camp Fire.
Date: 1976
Image ID GG04_006_003

85. Girl Guides West Mersea Cooking & Camp Fire.
Date: 1976
Image ID GG04_006_005

86. Girl Guides West Mersea Cooking & Camp Fire.
Date: 1976
Image ID GG04_006_007

87. Girl Guides West Mersea Cooking & Camp Fire.
Date: 1976
Image ID GG04_006_009

88. Land Army girls with Alexandra Family at the bottom of Fairhaven Avenue. Fairhaven Cafe in the background.
Date: 1946
Image ID GRD_LAN_019

89. On the beach. Huts
Date: 1931
Image ID GRS_OPA_019

90. Sue's Gran Bill Sprake at back, Sue's in front 1929
Date: 1929
Image ID GRS_OPA_021