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From John Admin.

Dont they look young !!

Wivenhoe sailing club trophy presentation.
Left Phil Dann Middle back row Les Meadows Joyce Blackwood and Pat Ellis with trophy.

Lovely sprats and herrings

Unloading sprats on Brightlingsea hard 1930.

They make a good photo.

Old sailing craft at wivenhoe in the 1920's.

Grand old smackmen.

James (friday) Green at the back left with his son Sid seated in front of him.

This was a great little shop

This is Bartons in late 50s, early 60s. Can just see my mum Pat inside the shop.
Photo Linda Panton.

And we all thought it was a gate house.

A photo of the High Street showing Cedrics garage which was built by Gray's the builders ,the old house was the chauffers house for Wivenhoe Hall.

Nice place for a carnival.

Fancy dress - Wivenhoe Carnival? - about 1910. Gwyndoline Harvey second row, first from left, dressed as a "gypsy" (which was also her nickname due to skin colouring). Looks like Vine Farm.

Its now covered in blue render Agh!!!!

The Methodist chapel in the Avenue was opened in 1901.

Harvey Family

Left to right: Cyril Gwydir Harvey, Charles MacLachlan Harvey, Fred Harvey, Gwydoline Harvey. About 1905. Probably taken in their garden at Rutland Cottage, Park Road, Wivenhoe. Fred was the last son of Thomas Harvey who developed that area of Wivenhoe, born when his father was aged 62. 

Photo Chris Goddard

Lovely old lady.

Steam yacht Vita
laying off the seawall at Wivenhoe,this yacht was originally called Argosy

This is good even i get a breif showing .

Wivenhoe advert short video you might like this!!

More boats with their silver harvest.

More sprat boats at Brightlingsea.

I love sprats.

Sprat boats unloading their catch on the hard at Brightlingsea.

A Wivenhoe hero.

A Wivenhoe Man who fought at the battle of Trafalgar and is buried in Wivenhoe churchyard.

These look like old yachts.

Old sailing yachts on the colne at Wivenhoe..

loved those old sprats.

The North Sea Canning Company owned two of these boats CK54 and CK59, called the Fisher Girl and the Essex Girl. the Company canned sprats and sold them under the trade name of Fisher Girl brisling.  In the summer they canned chickens.  The owner was Lewis Worsp who lived next door on the Quay.

Pity it burnt down in 1927.

Wivenhoe Hall a fine mansion which burnt down in 1927 and is now the King George 1v playing fields.

From little acorns.!!

J.James and co  before they becames James and Stone Brightlingsea,  Yacht ,Sailing smack, Sailing Barges and boat builders. date 1925-1946

Before they invented the motor car and ruined everything

Wivenhoe High St. taken in 1905.

Before Health and Safety too - look at the angle of that ladder !
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Plenty of dob dobing there.

Wivenhoe scout troup date unknown.

Football stars

Brightlingsea Secondary School football team 1947, second row seated 3rd.from left Ken Green.
Back row l-r Chinkey Norton form master ,  Maurice Green,  far rightMr. Palmer head master.
 photo Carl Amos.

Never seen this one before .

Wivenhoe Salvation Army brass band c. 1911 not sure where this photo was taken.
Photo by Carl Amos.

Soon dry that out with a towel

Floods at Wivenhoe in the 1970's before the barrier these were common place.

Bet they sold nice beer then

The Flag Inn ,Colchester road, Wivenhoe ,the original building on the left was built in 1795.

This was once the village Square.

Anchor Hill showing the old Bull pub with a greengrocers shop attached to the front and Cracknell's bakery behind .  The other building in the picture is the Red lion pub.

It's a wonder the Quay never collapsed

Wivenhoe regatta in the 1930's, the whole village must have been there.

One of the famous Green family.

James Samuel Green of Wivenhoe ,youngest petty officer in the Royal Navy , married to Miss Dora Wilson at Greenhithe ,Kent.  James served on the warship Edward V11.

the good old days.

Wivenhoe port when it was still open in 1984

Loved watching them unload the sprats.

fishing boats Essex Girl and Fisher Girl in the North sea Canning Company dock on the Quay.  They canned sprats in the winter and chickens in the summer the owner was Lewis Worsp.

looks different now !

The Flag Inn Wivenhoe ,the main building dates from 1795 The man in the cart could be local carrier Whip Wyatt.

Wivenhoe Memories community page  now on facebook under Wivenhoe Memories.

New and old photo's and any stories most welcome ,nearly 200 members since Monday ,have a look if you like Wivenhoe.
Sally Glozier-Green and John Stewart ,founders of the page.
www.facebook.com/wivenhoe memories

sorry about the quality.

Local lad's going for a sail on the boat Why-Not at Wivenhoe

Take a last look. For you Mark Dufton

A sight we will never see again ,probably the last coaster to go up to the Hythte at Colchester. 1980's

Correct name is Mark Dufton

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They look like carefree days

The Ferry Hard at Wivenhoe 1920's alas the ferry shelter disappeared in the 1960's also the row of houses behind which went out into the river have also been demolished.

It looked nice until it was covered by plaster.

The new Methodist church in the Avenue opened on the 24th October 1901, they had one before which was the old Wesleyan church in Chapel Road ,now a potery workshop.

Wivenhoe must have been very interesting in W.W.2

ML276 one of three boats in dock for repair at Vospers yard in W.W.2 these were high speed patrol boats.

Just seen the photo of ML276.  Fairmile B class motor launch.

 

As a matter of interest my father Norman worked as a designer for Fairmile Marine at their office at Cobham in Surrey for a large part of WWII and was involved with this and other classes of Fairmile vessels.

thanks to Graham Wadley for additional information.

The brave crew of the Minesweeper Beveland., Built at Wivenhoe Shipyard 1943.

1. Jan Moot.
2. Klass Blok.
3. Job Groen.
4. Bastiaan. Luyendyk.
5. Johannes Leenderd Spaans.
6. Tjeerd brouwer.
7. Dirk dijkstra.
8. Leenderd Nutby.
9. ?
10. Anton Tol.
11. Dirk Van der Oever.
12. Leendert Knooester.
13. Arend van Ree.
14. Cornelis Zuidhoek.
15. Klass Stam.
16. Frank Knoester.
17. ?.
18. Gerrit Blok.
19. Henk Westerduin

Copyright of R Vader and Bill Ellis.

I am sure it went faster than that

The Donkey Express, Brightlingsea-Wivenhoe to St. Botolphs

I doubt if we ever see this again.

A long forgotten site of a coaster heading towards the Hythe,  photo taken in 1985 from lower lodge estate.
Photo Mike Dufton.

What a lovely sight..

Sailing barges loading sand at the jetty in Alresford Creek Essex.

What a maritime history we have

The yacht King Coel, built byJames Husk at the folley yard ,Wivenhoe ,completed in 1898 for Alexander Barlow of Wivenhoe Hall.
1901 soold to Percy Hall -Chelmsford.
1908 sold to Frederick Clarke.
1913 sold to Henry Beasly of Southampton.
1920 sold to William o Neill -Southampton.
1921 soldto Edmund Agarstone -North Finchley.
Text John Collins- Shipbuilding on th Colne a brilliant book.

A pity it was not restored!

The 279 ton barquentine,  Cap Pilar ,built in St. Malo, France for the cod trade by G.Gautier. Acquired by the Palestine Maritime League, the Cap Pilar was to be restored for youth sail training, but the money needed was not raised. . She was bought by a young crew who wanted to sail round the world which they did between 1936-38. After W.W.2 she was towed up to Wivenhoe where she became derelict and ended up in Wivenhoe dry dock and covered in concrete, when the old shipyard site became a timber yard

Text by John Collins -shipbuilding on the Colne 

Nick Butler- The Story of Wivenhoe.

One had a sad ending.

Two boats on Cook's slipway the Belama and the Baruka , i hope i have spelt these right. They were bound for the Solomon Islands.

Wonder where they kept the ride on lawnmower?

Wivenhoe Urban Distric Council Offices from 1898-1927 based at Little Wick-no38 High St. Wivenhoe , the caretaker was Mrs. Emily Watcham.

One of many Wivenhoe actor /artists

Sir John Martin Harvey 1863-1944.  He was the son of John Harvey ,shipbuilder at Wivenhoe, he was one of seven children ,3 of whom died in infancy the others were May, Charles and Goyder. and they lived at Quay house on Wivenhoe Quay. Sir John was an Edwardian actor manager.

Most of Wivenhoe were employed in this yard

Old steam yacht in the dry dock in Forrestt;'s shipyard now the site of the Wivenhoe port housing Estate.Forrestt built several houses on Spion Cop ie.1-24 Manor Road to house their skilled staff they bought with them from London.

He never took his hat off.

Mr. Ernie Turner inside his home in Alma St.  Ernie is well known as one of Wivenhoe's primitive painters and his work is well sought after, Ernie spent most of his life in the shipyard as a shipwright and when he retired in 1964 he took up painting ,self taught.

My sandwiches are under there somewhere!!!

Can somebody shut the door ,there is a draft in here. road accident in Queens rd Wivenhoe.

He was liked in Wivenhoe.

McEvers Bayard Brown the American Millionairewho owned the steam yacht valfreyia of 730 tons.
The yacht was kept in the dry dock at Wivenhoe untill his death c.1926, his body was sent back to the united States for burial .

Salty old boys

Winners of the 1922 sailing smack cup outside the Shipwright Arms Pub in West St. the landlord was George Hillyard seen on the left back row with the peak cap.

Excellent photo, John. I've never seen George before. He died in 1967 aged 91.
Hi Chris nice to hear from you again.

Talk about a tight squeeze!

It looks life a lifeboat for Cook's yard negotiating a tight squeeze round Ballast Quay date unknown.