The pub is in there somewhere!!

This is a view looking towards the Flag Pub. again dated around 1903.  Those trees look enormous.

I was born just beyond the Flag pub. I can remember the giant Elms on the left of the photo, in Claude Watchams Stack yard,and by about 1940 the Elms on the right had gone.Great shame.


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I wish we still had roads that looked as pretty as this view.

This is a really nice photo. of Park Road taken from Queens Road. Date is around 1903, it is nice to see so many trees.
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Who put that aeroplane in the picture?

The Ben Henshaw,  Tanker for National Benzole launched in 1933 at Rowhedge Iron works. Another well known Tanker built there was the Ben Bates.

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This one is for John of Benfleet.

Bridge over the river colne.  Built during the first world war for conveying troops from the Cherry Tree camp at Black heath on the Mersea road to Wivenhoe station.
The middle section is of the cantilever design to allow barge traffic through.
The bridge was built near the Albion pub at Rowhedge over to the Wivenhoe shore.

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There were quite a few shops in West St.

Looking down West Street from the Church tower, note the amount of housing in West St. most of some considerable age. the tall chimney is in the shipyard, look at the empty ground on the corner of Quay St. and West St.
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On the opposite corner to the Chapel is the Shipwright Arms pub,and on the far side of the shipyard,you can see the Toll house, where you paid a toll to get through to the Rowhedge ferry. Brought back memories.  Bluetrane.

Thanks for the comments. John.

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I bet someone knows all of these people?

Wivenhoe branch of the St. Johns Ambulance Brigade, not sure of the date , but it could be the 1960's.

 Middle row: 2nd left - Barbara Hammond (nee Foster) far right: Anne Foster (nee Rutt?) Front row: Far right: Margaret Aldous (nee Durrell) Lovely photo. Sue Critchley.

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We need somewhere to play!

Parents and children calling for playing fields in Wivenhoe .  Here they are seen on Spion kop now Ernest road in 1935.. This was before the Parish council compulsory purchased the Hall land from Mr. Schofield, it was then called the King George 5th. Playing fields.  The houses in the background are in Rectory Road.
The piece of land they are sitting on was used by the  fair which used to turn up every summer.

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Just the Bob a Job.

Am i wrong, or is this a very young Alan Green at a scout camp with the Wivenhoe Scouts. The first Wivenhoe Scouts were founded in1909 and met in no. 30 Alma Street.

Informatiom Nicholas Butler- The Story of Wivenhoe.

 Yes you're right John.  Bluetrane.

Thanks for the info. John.

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She was probably the most well known Lady in Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe St. John's Ambulance gathering in the old chapel in Clifton Terrace, date ,sometime in the 1960's.  The Lady is Mrs. Munson.

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A stunning photo.

Gail Cross( nee Mills), who married Roy Cross ,both artists in their own right.  Gail painted local scenes and portraits.  They moved to Wivenhoe in the late 1950's and lived on Anchor Hill.

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Research by Nicholas Butler "The Story of Wivenhoe".

We certainly had our fair share of celebs.

Captain William (Billy) Mason passed away in 1933 here he is seen second from left.  William was a skipper for many well known Men ,including the Duke of Leeds, Lord Abercorn and sir William Christie. He also toured the world with General Freemantle by yacht.
In later years he was also landlord of the Grosvenor Hotel on the corner of the High St. and Station road. He lived in Queens Road.

Also in Queens Road, Mrs Sarah Durrant Wife of Captain Durrant an old Mariner passed away in 1936.Queens road seems to have been full of Mariners!

Just around the corner in Park Road Mr John Hughes Jones, actor lived at Abbotsbury, Park Road, he was a Shakespearean actor who appeared in principal London theaters. He passed away in 1934.

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He was a great skipper, the picture speaks for itself.

Captain Albert Turner was the skipper on King George V's Yacht Britannia.  On his marriage 27th of march 1930 he was presented with this engraved silver inkwell by the members of the royal household at Buckingham Palace.

Marquise of Haulford.                    Sir Harry Verney.
Lord  Edgecombe.                          Lady Cynthia Colville.
Admiral Sir Stanley Colville.        Admiral Sir Henry Butler.
Sir Derek Keppell.                        Lieut. Col. Douglas Gordon.
Lord Shaftsbury.                            Mr. George Colville.
Admiral Sir Henry Campbell
     
Captain Turner lived in Malting House in the High Street


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They liked sailing down in the Med. and Scotland

The crew of the R.Y.S Rosabelle, a large number are Wivenhoe Men.
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Courtesy of the Nottage Institute.  J.C.

This must be the crew of the fifth Rosabelle built 1902.

‘My’ Henry Harlow was captain until his death in 1906 when Walter Benjamin Wenlock took over (I believe). Walter was born in Brightlingsea in 1862, the son of Benjamin Wenlock, master mariner of Brightlingsea. WB had been Mate and then sailing master of the Alruna, a Cowes registered yawl. (The owner was listed as her Master) I am not sure how long WB was master of the Rosabelle. He was i/c when he and the Rosabelle were requisitioned in 1915.

The mate William Frederick Goodwin (born Wivenhoe 1876) was Henry Harlow’s son in law. (He married Henry’s eldest daughter Alice Hannah in 1900.) She died in 1926 and William was appointed 1st Mate of the Rosabelle on 26/06/1928. Theodore Pim, the owner died on 22/09/1929, aged 84, and had only returned from a cruise five days before. (He fell at his home in Bramley in Surrey and fractured his hip on the day of his return.)

This dates the photo to 1928/9, and may well be the last photo of Mr Pim on board. Walter Wenlock died in 1936 and William Goodwin in 1948.

Additional information kindly researched by Mary Norris, West Sussex.

Frank used sail on this old craft.

CK116 the fishing smack San Toy, at it's moorings at Wivenhoe Quay.  The boat belonged to Mr. Frank Downing.  Does anyone know where she is now?

CK116 San Toy  8.38grt aux. cutter. 31.9'x9.3'x30' keel. C. at Brightlingsea, date not known.  19/12/1928 ex HH51.  Owned by Frederick Downing (master), Wivenhoe.  26/4/1930 To Frederick Downing, Frank Downing & Guy Downing, Wivenhoe.  Aux. motor fitted.  18/10/1985 To Nicholas George Cook, Wivenhoe. 6.46grt.  26/4/1989 To M.S.A. Part II.

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Kindly donated by Andrew Lee, Burgh Castle,Norfolk.

Information by John Collins @Nottage Institute.

I think they are hoof marks in the road

This picture shows the greyhound pub without the building down street from the pub, also you can see the return of the great wall of Wivenhoe hall turning into Clifton Terrace opposite the pub. Next door to the Greyhound, where the holly tree stands a small shop was built for Mr. King the butcher.
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Looks good from the end of the pier

This once busy Cook's Shipyard is now the elegant Cooks shipyard estate with it's new boardwalk pier and fisherman's dock does not look out of place in this small town. picture taken ,summer 2013.  The boat Merlin is a cockle suction dredger.
The houses are designed on the original boat building sheds and the same colour, not a bad match.
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Like the waspy socks.

Wivenhoe Schoolboys football team outside the primary school in Philip Road Wivenhoe.  The date on the ball is 1955, would love some names if anybody knows, i will credit you on the blog, many thanks.

Back Row left to right 5 along is Geoff Rudd.

Back row john left to right 2nd one on back is Robert Marshall and last 2 on the back is Alan Bowes and Graham Peck.

Front Row Left To Right 4 along is Rodney Seadan And Next to him i think is Ticker Sainty.
Front Row Left To Right second one in is mick Hatch.

Thanks to Ken Newbury for additional information

. Front row, first right is Kenny Hatch I think.  Thanks to Dawn Bird.

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You will not see this sight again

A nice picture of one of the Coaster traffic making it's way up to the Hythe, Port of Colchester, in 1985.  We now have no shipping on the River Colne which is a great shame, and the Port of Colchester no longer exists, the Harbour Board is no longer in use.


 I spent a great deal of my childhood messing about down by or on the river and it's a sight we rather took for granted. A great shame indeed.  Philip Braithwaite. Ostend ,Belgium


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They used to use a shovel and wheelbarrow.

The Wivenhoe Sand Stone and Gravel Company, started in the early 1920's by William G Loveless, better known to locals as "Toby Loveless". This picture was taken somewhere around 1960.
It has had several company names , including Tilbury Roadstone  and Redland Aggregates, and now Lafarge.

 By kind permission of Mr. Graham Wadley.

hi, i used to work at the wivenhoe plant from 1973-80,best job i ever had, i was a plant fitter & then hgv fitter, any photo's of that time would be a joy to see... many thank's GRAHAM MAYHEW.
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Ships of wood and Men of Iron

Captain Albert Barr Turner standing behind the wheel in black.  He was one of the great seaman from Wivenhoe on the river colne ,along with the great sailors from Rowhedge and Brightlingsea.  Tollesbury on the river Blackwater had its fair share of sailors. as well.

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What a great place to live if you are of an Artistic bent

A couple of local artists who moved to Wivenhoe in the 1950's, they are Gail and Roy Cross, Roy taught art to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Wivenhoe turned in to an artistic colony in the next 20 years.One other was Richard Chopping who designed the  dust covers for the James Bond books.

From the Story of Wivenhoe by Nicholas Butler.

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I bet this has got the little grey cells working!"

A vintage shot of the Eastern National Bus, this is the 53 which ran to Clacton on sea. this photo was taken in 1981.

Pic by kind permission of  Antoinette and Mark Dufton.