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in times gone by! |
skipping on the Hard about 1910 Annie Cooke in centre |
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Beach below "Orleans" showing a line of groynes that no longer exist |
The old Fountain Hotel just before demolition |
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The River Blackwater 1936 Many merchant ships were laid up in the river during a recession in trade In foreground "The Highland Warrior" In background the passenger ship "Vandyck". |
The Pontoon in the 1970's |
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| Off on a shooting expedition no idea who these people are or where they are but it is somewhere in Mersea |
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Co-op corner 1960's (now the Co-op funeral directors) The old co-op on corner of Kingsland and Barfield. Rainbow Road entrance in distance (note the covered bus shelter) |
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Coast Road little more than a dirt road 1950's Stonehill Hard to left now the Town Council launching area |
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Hove Hill Coast Road in the 1950's The lady with the pram is wearing what was known as a "duster coat". |
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St Peter's Well in the 1950's This had once been the "Cricket grounds" Note the lack of reed beds |
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Queens Corner in 1960's |
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Vine Cottage top of The Lane This wooden cottage reputedly burnt down and rebuilt in brick at about the turn of the century |
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Ray Island about 1910 with Annie Mabel Cooke posing as "Mehalah" Ray Island's distinctive Thorn Trees in background |
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Digby's Hardware Shop Barfield Road A Mersea institution run by Mr. Hugh Banham His motto "If you can't eat it you can get it at Digbys At one time the only place on the island you could buy a tide table |
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Monkey Beach 1919 corner of Orleans Gardens showing what local children called the "monkey lookout". Not much beach here more mud and seaweed |
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Underwoods garage early seventies |
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Beach Huts in 1970's These are on a "private" section of the beach below Willoughby Avenue The concrete area in front of higher beach huts was once part of the old Spinney Cafe frontage |
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old Oyster Sheds the one nearest the road was once a Telegraph Office for the Packing Shed London restaurants would telegraph here with orders for oysters |
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St Peter's Well turn of the century |
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Houseboats - 1950's
some have seen better days! |
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a few of The Laneys |
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Looking down Coast Road The "onion field" on the left the coastguard lookout on the right |
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The old Two Tides pub - that once stood at the sea end of Seaview Avenue |
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Delivering the milk to Coopers Beach chalets East Mersea |
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View up High Street. White Hart on left - empty field on right was first the bus station now the MICA |
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MR and Mrs Baker who lived on an old barge at East Mersea. They featured as characters in the book Mehalah. The two sailor boy twins were summer visitors |
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hanging out the washing on the "village green" opposite the Old Victory at the end of The Lane |
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Mill Road (also known as Chapel Lane and Meeting Lane) showing old mill and mill cottages |
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Victoria Esplanade in 1947 - note lack of beach huts Fairhaven House in background left |
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Mersea Island Scout Group camping at Cudmore Grove in the 1930's |
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Spitecorner Firs Chase corner of The Lane |
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Steam yachts Vita and Media lying at anchor in the Colne in the late 1920's |
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The Dog and Pheasant East Mersea |
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Gowen sails making webbing for parachutes WW2 they also made knapsacks kitbags etc |
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waiting for the bus on the church wall about 1910 railings were removed during WW2 as part of the war effort |
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the old seawater swimming pool at East Mersea Youth Camp |
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Buses at Mersea outside White Hart old times |