For the nice people on the waterfront.

The old Ship at Launch pub and the old admiralty warehouse next door now converted into flats.

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What sort of car is that?

A young Philip Faucheux in the car with it's owner Mr. and Mrs. Barr.  This photo was taken in rectory Road in 1926.


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Helen
I believe it is Hector Barr the sail maker and his Wife whose maiden name was Howe. Her Father was the Brightlingsea ferry Man.

More of old Wivenhoe demolished !!

A view of Blyths Lane after the row of cottages were demolished to make way for the block of flats that now occupy the same site.

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Look at that big television aerial,good old black and white T.V.

The old pre-fabs in Rectory Road, now the site of Stuart Pawsey court.

Kindly loaned by Chris Faucheux.

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Rectory Close, one of my schoolmates used to live there in the 1970s.
Thanks to Phil Braithwaite

It looks a bit different now.

A snowy scene taken in Stanley Road in 1959, looking towards Rectory Road.
on the left can be seen the old prefabs built just after WW2.

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Pictures kindly loaned by Chris Faucheux.

Is that very nice carving on the Greyhound frontage?

An early view of the lower High St. date is c.1900-1910. The old brick wall of Wivenhoe Hall can be seen on the right of the picture. Glozier's shop (with the drain pipe) was then a private house.
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 There doesn't seem to be a pavement on the Greyhound side?


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Another very well known Wivenhoe Family.

Captain Turner Barnard Ennew 1856-1916. Born in Rowhedge and in 1903 moved to Wivenhoe.
He raced various yachts, including,  the cutter Genesta and the yawl Jullanar, and Lord Brassey's Sunbeam.
Captain Ennew married Margaret Worsp, John Worsp's half Sister,  they had one Daughter called Nora.

Picture courtesy of the Nottage Institute.
Research notes courtesy of Dick Barton's Wivenhoe and it's eccentrics.

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