You can still see the clock on the church looking down to the river.

A view looking up Rose Lane . What is that building behind the Garrison house ,all that's left now is the roof outline on the house it was attached to.

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Not so much mud there then.

A VIEW, LOOKING ALONG THE QUAY FROM THE FERRY SHELTER.
Thanks to the Nottage Institute.

She was the original Wivhovian.

I think this a photo of Ruth Munson on her retirement from the St. Johns Ambulance.or Guides.
L-R. Val Last (nee Peck)Mr-Mrs Jack Barrell Ruth Munson cutting cake with Bonnie Hill........ Freda Annis ..........  .........

Apparently Granddad used to do fund raising for the Scouts and Guides (hence that photo the other day of him at a fete of some sort, I suppose!) and Grandma used to organise whist drives at the St. John's Ambulance. She could shuffle cards like a Las Vegas croupier.Helen Barrell.

The Scout and Guides logos are on the cake, so I'm assuming that's what it's to do with. I'm just wondering why my grandparents are in this photo as well! Maybe they were friends? Hmmm...Helen Barrell.
 

Fourth and Sixth rear I am sure is Maurice and Margaret Britton.

john holden.

They still have their railings on the walls.

This photo shows the Avenue before the building of Rosabelle Avenue , this could date it between 1946-7 the ground behind the picket fence are the orchards of Wivenhoe hall which ran up to Spring Lane near the Doctors Surgery.
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The Avenue.

I am sure that the orchard for Wivenhoe Hall did not run as far as Spring Lane.  There is a house which used to be occupied by Roger Bacon which is just up from the last of the council houses which face onto the Avenue and called Orchard End - the clue is in the name of the house and that is below Harvey Road

Also my late parents house at 61 The Avenue - about 5 down from the surgery was not part of the orchard as far as we are aware. They moved into 61 in 1947 and Rosabelle Avenue was under construction.  The rule was one council house had to be built alternately with a private development.

Hope that helps or confuses.

Graham Wadley

Thanks Graham.

What a lovely sight.

The Hopper dredger barge ,yard no.1512 completed and launched in 1986for the Northern Ireland harbour Authority, Belfast.  This was the last completed ship to be launched at James W, Cook.

Just found out MV Kilbourne has been in for a refit and had some changes made in 2012 :- Outboard engine removed and replaced with 2 inboard engines twin props and Rudder(s). Stern well removed, engine casing and funnel added. Dredging crane and seat removed and space obtained, to allow other types of dredging equipment to be fitted (Hydraulic Crawler crane, Pile Driving, Winches and other types as of machinery required for a particular job.) The above changes and general maintenance has given her approx. another 20 years Will send photo asap.
Thanks to Mike ex Cook's drawing offfice.

Jack kept he paper shop.

This photo taken somewhere in wivenhoe was taken in the `1960's at a fete at the table is Jack Barrell and the lady is either Winnie Cook or ,Turner,does anyone know where it was taken?

Thanks to Helen Barrell for the photo.

Winnie Turner/Cook - one and the same.  This is I am sure Malcolm Turner's mother whose maiden name was Cook.

This might answer a few questions or create more

Memoir of General Rebow.

He was Born in1770, and was the Son of  Richsrd Slater,Esq the descendant an old Derbyshire Family resident for several generations at Chesterfield, in that county.

He assumed the surname of Rebow in addition to his patronymic on his marriage with Mary Hester,eldest daughter and eventually sole heiress of Isaac Martin Rebow ,Esq, of Wivenhoe park, who was for many years Colonel of the Essex Militia, and recorder and M.P for Colchester  of which his ancestors had been also the Representatives in parliament for three generations.

General Rebow entered the army 14th Nov. 1787 as an Ensign in the 60th Foot and accompanied that regiment to the East indies.

General Rebow  married,as already stated , the heiress of the Wivenhoe Park Estate, which Lady died 23rd July 1834, having had issue two daughters, viz, Mary Emma, who died young in 1804, and Mary Martin , who also assumed the additional surname of Rebow, and married first in 1824Sir Thomas Ormsby, Bart.   And secondly in 1835 John Gurdon, Esq,second son of Theophilas Thornhaugh Gurdon ,Esq of Letton, Norfolk, but of neither of these marrieges is there surviving issue, and Lady Ormsby Rebow pre-deceased her Father 17th Sept. 1842.  The Family therefore ,both in name and blood , has now become extinct.
Francis Slater Rebow commissioned  John Constable in 1816 to commit to canvas the house and grounds for a fee of 100 guineas, the painting is now in the national gallery of art in Washington D.C.
Genersal Francis Slater rebow died in 1845.
Mary Hester Rebow died in 1834 wife of General Rebow .
 Mary Martin died 1842 aged 38 years.
When General Rebow died the estate passed to his Son in law John Gurdon Rebow, when he  died the estate passed on to Hector Gurdon Rebow , and in 1902 the estate was purchased by Charles Edmund Gooch.

The gentleman's magazine 1845.

If you wish know what i posted last week, click on older posts at the bottom of the screen .

When i lived at 9 Alma St. i remember these ladies.

These are all Wivenhoe ladies who worked at the Colchester Manufacturing Company at 30 Alma Street Wivenhoe.. They made coats and sports blazers.

We think we have a rough life.

Wivenhoe Workhouse( now Toad hall, Colchester Road)

Before the Magistretes at the Colchester Castle on Saturday last 1863, Elizabeth Moss an inmate of Wivenhoe Work House , was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment ,for stealing a piece of cheese from another inmate of the same house

Cheldsford Chronicle 1863.

short shorts in those day's

WivenhoeRangers football club in the 1970's when they where based on the King George V playing fields. can anyone name the line up? please.

 Top row second Harry Welsh seventh Mick Hatch, Derek Chaney, ninth Dave Poore tenth Victor Williamson (Chairman) Bottom row fourth Gasgoin? fifth William (Jock) Hill Sixth Peter Merrick.

Thanks to Daryl Williamson.

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you are on there somewhere.

School photo taken at the Philip road school in the 1950's

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Thanks to Clive Peck for photo.

Well done every one 1/4 million page views keep it up

There are a lot of long words in this text!

Schooling in Wivenhoe.

In 1871 THE NATIONAL RETURN RELATING TO ELEMENTARY EDUCATION LISTS SEVEN ADVENTURE SCHOOLS (PRIVATELY OWNED)  IN WIVENHOE THESE SEVEN SCHOOLS CATERED BETWEEN THEM FOR 139 CHILDREN.

a SCHOOL INSPECTOR IN 1874 CONDEMNED DAME SCHOOLS AS:A VERY GREAT HINDRANCE TO EDUCATION ' AND REJOICES THAT THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT AND HAS THIS TO SAY " BUT WHERE THERE IS NO SCHOOL BOARD AS AT WIVENHOE , THESE INEFFICIENT SCHOOLS ABOUND ......THEY ROB THE EFFICIENT SCHOOLS OF THEIR SCHOLARS OF THEIR PROPER EDUCATION.

DAME SCHOOLS GRADUALLY DIED OUT , ONE OR TWO WOMEN RAN !MINDING! CLASSES IN PARLOURS THEY NEVER LEARNED MUCH , IT WAS A CASE OF INFANT CARE WHILST THEIR MOTHERS WANTED THEM OUT OF THE WAY. .MISS HYDE'S LADIES SCHOOL(1870-1885) AND MISS PROCTOR'S(1874)WERE BOTH RATHER BETTER, QUITE EXPENSIVE AND HAD SOME SNOB APPEAL.

THE LAST IN LINE OF THE ONE MAN SCHOOL WAS THAT OF MR.WILLIAM JAMES SMITH.WHICH LASTED TILL 1914. HE OFFERED,IN HIS LITTLE SCHOOL BEHIND THE POST OFFICE IN QUEENS ROAD,FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY MISS HYDE, A KIND OF SECONDARY EDUCATION WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CIVIL SERVICE,

.  THERE WERE ABOUT 25SCHOLARS AND THEY ALL WORE RED HATS. THEY PAID NINE PENCE A WEEK  IN THE 1890'S AND BOUGHT THEIR OWN BOOKS .

OTHER TEACHERS WERE MRS. MARY HYDE 1855 ONWARDS MISS FANNY BROWNE AND MISS ELIZABETH FAIRS IN THE 1850'S.  MISS JANE HYDE WAS A FORMER MISTRESS  AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL.

IT IS NOTICEABLE THAT ALL WIVENHOE GIRL'S SCHOOLS WERE RUN BY MARRIED WOMEN IN THE 18TH CENTURY BUT BY THE 19CENTURY THESE WERE ALL SPINSTERS

Another Wivenhoe /Trafalgar Hero.

James Martin was one of the crew on board M.M.S .Neptune a 98Gun ship of the line at Trafalgar on the.

21st October 1805 Her Commander was Captain Thomas Francis Freemantle. James Martin survived the battle , although 10 were killed and 34 wounded on board the Neptune.

James was born in1778 at West Mersea essex and died at wivenhoe  26th January1855 aged 77

Able Seaman James Martin continued his career at sea . Some years ,after Trafalgar when his ship was at Charente close to Rochefoet , a French man came on board his ship ,he knew me at first sight and said he had come on board to talk with me  about the battle of Trafalgar and with a large mug of brandy , but to give a toast of to the prosperity to England and France and may the two Nations be long united in peace:. If this Man really did know Martin from Trafalgar he was possibly one of the three Men from the ship Redutable  that Neptune found clinging to wreckage the morning after their ship sank.  James and Elizabeth Martin added three more sons to their Family, William John and Robert.  James Martin died on the 10th of April 1855, his book concerning the battle of Trafalgar is still treasured by his Family.James Ship's pay book no. was S.B. 1289.

James  Martin married Elizabeth Argent in 1800 They had 6 Children Sarah Sophia 1801, james 1803, William Henry 1807,  Sophia1811,  Robert Charles 1813,  Robertb1817,  John ?
 In the 1851 cencus James is living in Bath street Wivenhoe. Aged 72  his Daughter Sophia aged 39 and his Son Robert ,33 and James is given as retired mariner , pauper He died 5 years later.

Now we have two hero's of Trafalgar Benjamin Snood and James Martin. We should be proud of our heritage , how many other Communities can boast two Trafalgar Veterans.
Check out Benjamin Snood the other hero on the Labels on the right of the screen under The Church title

Water water everywhere.

The high tide at wivenhoe before the barrier was built,so this must be about 1980's .George the  manager and his wife were from the Newcastle area.

 I remember it flooding like that on my first walk to Wivenhoe near the end of October 198's - before the barrier was completed. As I went to the sea wall footpath a bloke warned me that it would be a high Autumn tide, but it didn't look that bad so I carried on (oops! I had just arrived here as a green young student) - on the way back the same bloke offered to give me a piggy (declined) back over Bethany Street (and I am convinced it was the local legend Billy the Fish). The water on the front was higher than on your picture, but a couple of local kids were enjoying trying to ride their bikes through it! Cheers. Hazel
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 Apparently my great-grandmother, who lived on West Street, I think, used to cut a notch into the leg on her kitchen table to show where the level of the tide had come up to! (and that would be... well I suppose in the 1910s and 1920s).Helen Barrell.

A old Steam traction engine being used at  B. B. and M. barrell's timber yard at Wivenhoe cross works. The Works burned down in 1922. The Engine driver is a Mr. Plain who lived next door .
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No, this is not a Burrell. It is a Foster steam tractor; this term referring to small traction engine built to weigh less than 5 tons. A cracking photo!
 Yes Micheal you can post this on the Forum for more information.

 Wivenhoe memories collection.

They had shops in Colchester then.

It's Colchester again, this was taken from Crouch Street the Bull pub on the right hand side .

Like the horse and carts!

It's not Wivenhoe ,but it is a nice picture of Colchester looking up Queens Street from St Botolphs,1900's.
Left click on photo for super size.

Wivenhoe Memories collection.

Sorry about the sellotape on the photo.

Mr. Ted Harvey outside his house in Park Road Wivenhoe.

It's FRED, John :-) My great-grandfather. Thanks Chris , sorry about that. Would you know the date Chris.

 Looking at the dress the date would be around 1900-1920.

The Hinds Head pub in High St. 1586

The will of Robert Fraunce of Wivenhoe 1586.

To my Son John my copyhold in Elmstead called Kings;my freehold in Elmstead called Harpers.

i have surrendered as the custom of the Manor  My freehold in Wivenhoe Stree(High Street)called the "Hinds Head "the earliest known pub in Wivenhoe; and my freehold which lyeth on Wivenhoe Heath called Wolves Land; ;all within 1 year of my decease;Joan my Wife to have them for 1 year.  To my copyhold on Wivenhoe Heath called benites alias Gouges for her life ;for the better effecting of my gifts and bequeathments'  i have surrendered the copyholds to Erkenwald Tyler and William Abell being tenants  and John Miller in the stead of the Lord's Bailiff.  To my Daughter Bridget £66 13 shillings and 4 pence at Marriage; if she die before , to be divided between my 2 Sons John and William.   To The poor of Wivenhoe 3 shillings and 4 pence.  The residue of my goods to my Wife whom i make my ex'rix, i ordain Jeremy urges supervisor  wit. Erkenwald Tyler. Cuthbert Micerne, John Miller     PR.16 April (1586)

F.G. Emmison. Essex Gentry Wills.

Wivenhoe Memories collection.

The train doesn't stop there.

An Edwardian Lady sitting on the fence  at the end of the sea wall,probably at the turn of the1900's.

With the forge next door ,thats where they get, going for a tinkle from.

Horse and groom pub with the OldForge in the background  and Forge House. On the right are the old farm buildings of Vine Farm.  Looking at the car this must date from the 1920-30's.

Another brave Wivenhoe person

William Horace Pitt-.D.C.M.  M.M.

Born Wivenhoe June 2nd 1895, Son of William and Edith Pitt of Hamilton Villa ,Wivenhoe.

William's Father was chief cook on board H.M.Y Rosabelle on patrol service in the North Sea.

William Joined the Essex Regiment s/n. 16595 on 3rd Sept. 1914 ; served with the Expeditionary force in France and Flanders from July,1915;appointed Colonel's Bugler,and later acting Bandmaster and died March 31st,1918,of wounds received in action the same day,while advancing as stretcher-bearer with the rest of the Band to the aid  of the wounded. Buried where he fell .

He was an excellent musician ,and with the support of some of the officers, in order to purchase instruments and music, he formed a band, and was appointed temporary Bandmaster in January 1915; in the following June he conducted the massed bands of the division on Salisbury Plain before His Majesty King George, when a march of his own composition was performed, and he received commendation.   He was awarded the M.M. for gallant conduct in the field on January 31st.1916 also the D.C.M. for distinguished bravery.

 CWGC shows Sgt H W Pitt but it is undoubtedly the same man.

Thanks . I don't have your name. John Admin.

It has changed now.

I know it's not Wivenhoe, but it is a nice shot of Brighlingsea hard and James and Stone Shipyard bottom left .  Top middle shows the mud berths where the big yachts used to lay and you can still see the store sheds where they kept some of their running gear.  Centre of the photo is Aldous Shipyard Estate.

Wivenhoe Memories collection.

What a great shot.

Cook's shipyard date unknown.
left clock on iimage for super size .

Ref "Cooks Yard" Feb 3 2014. This photo is shown there with comments , based on the two ships in line on berth the year would be 1979. they were launched 1979 Belama and 1980 Baruka, both left spring 1980 and arrived Soloman Islands, 3mths later.  Thanks Mike.

This would stop any colds.

Herring Oil.

For home consumption,clear of duties.

To be sold by auction, by William Bunnell(. by virtue of a commission from the high court of the Admiralty), at the sign of the Rose and Crown at Wivenhoe in the county of Essex, on Tuesday 23rd of April 1799

About 140 casks( each of 36 gallons) of fine Herring Oil, which will be put up in lots of 6 casks each, for the accommodation of the purchasers.

a deposit of 25 per cent, will be required on each lot, and the oil to be taken away within 10 days after the sale , or the deposit money to be forfeited.

Ipswich Journal 1799.

Browne's house is still there at the Cross.

The Chancery London-------- Moore V Browne's patent Rope works, ltd.1899.
by order of Mr. Jiustice Byrne.
The Cross, Wivenhoe nr, Colchester Essex.


The extensive manufacturing premises, principally ,freehold,known Browne's Patent Rope works,The Cross, Wivenhoe.  covering an area of about three acres,together with valuable fixed machinery.

the premises comprise brick and slated raw store 40feet by 21 feet, machinery shed 70feet by 21 feet, chimney shaft 8feet diameter, boiler house 33feet by 23 feet, engine room 26feet by 17 feet, a three story factory 34 feet by 27 feet, four large store sheds , and various other use full buildings.

for sale with vacant possession .
I think this place was taken over by Ben and martin Barrel and used as Barrell's Sawmill and Timber yard
 Chelsford Chronicle 1899

What a smart bunch.

Local Wivenhoe artists meeting at the Brewery Tavern in Brook Street ,before the forming of the arts club at Ballast Quay House,

i bet that was draughty in the winter .

The steam engine Resolute Commissioned for the Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway company she was an 0-6-0 type around 1866.

So, according to this source, the engine 'Resolute' was 0-6-0 (that tells you how many wheels attached to each of the three standard parts), makers Hudswell Clarke, produced in 1876 (not 1866).

 Thanks to Ben Marsden.

photo Paul Brown.

Wonder where she is now?

A nice shot of CK66 better known to wivenhoe old timers as the Olive which used to be moored at the bottom of Black Buoy hill, she was owned by Mr. Barry Green.
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Great to find this, I was researching an oil painting I have which is of this very boat. Now I know where to locate the picture Rebecca Wheatley

Not much has changed.

The Quay at Wivenhoe ,showing Vine cottage (centre) and the old bakery on the corner of the folly.
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Happy memories ,having to run acrossthat bridge.

Train approaching Alresford Swing bridge ,with Wivenhoe in the background.

Photo by Paul Brown.
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A great time for Wivenhoe Ship building.

The Admiral Day in Cooks Shipyard ready for fitting out circa 1972 at Wivenhoe.
 Admiral Day Yard No.1414 1971 2006 working Great Yarmouth still in her original build. 2009 has a new dredging crane and addition stores container aft of wheelhouse on raised platform. 2011 Hull is now painted Red and working on the River Mersey.
Thanks Mike.

Photo Pat Marsden.

Some more little nippers !!

Wivenhoe Champion crabbers.

Photo carol Green.

Little nippers ,comp. winners.

Wivenhoe Crabbing Competition winners 2001,outside the Rose and Crown pub.


Photo by Carol Green.
Wivenhoe Memories collection.

Wivenhoe cricket club.

Wivenhoe Cricket club 2nd X1 1975.
Left click on image to read names in supersize.

She doesn't look amused.

The 150th celebrations of theGreat Eastern Railway reaching Wivenhoe in 1863.

L-R John Stewart Queen Victoria George Mc Kissock.
Photo Peter Hill. 2013.

They were a great team in the sixties.!

Wivenhoe Town Cricket Club 2nd x1 1965 left click on image to read the names as this will give you a larger image.

Water water every where!

The high tide at wivenhoe before the barrier was built,so this must be about 1990.George manager and his wife were from the Newcastle area.

 I remember it flooding like that on my first walk to Wivenhoe near the end of October 1990 - before the barrier was completed. As I went to the sea wall footpath a bloke warned me that it would be a high Autumn tide, but it didn't look that bad so I carried on (oops! I had just arrived here as a green young student) - on the way back the same bloke offered to give me a piggy (declined) back over Bethany Street (and I am convinced it was the local legend Billy the Fish). The water on the front was higher than on your picture, but a couple of local kids were enjoying trying to ride their bikes through it! Cheers. Hazel
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One of many Wivenhoe pubs.

Beer house to let.

To let with immediate possession, capital BEERHOUSE, RED LION, WIVENHOE ; doing a fair trade;might be  greatly improved;incoming low, by valuation; good reason for leaving.  Apply, Dick Ham , Valuer, Wivenhoe.

The Red Lion was situated opposite the Church and is now the wine and tapas bar.