A bit of a tight squeeze

This looks like a lifeboat heading for Cook's yard at Wivenhoe ,here it can be seen making a tight fit round the coach house at ballast quay road

I thinkl this must have a little bit of Artistic licence

A view of Wivenhoe in 1832 this must be before the sea wall and railway were at Wivenhoe.
The picture was originally taken from Virtue's history of Essex It was drawn by W.Bartlett and engraved by J.Rogers.
Text from the book of Wivenhoe in post cards by David Craze. 

I think Thomas Harvey was a wealthy Man!!

This map is from the will of Elizabeth Eade and is dated 1879. you can see the name of Mr. Thomas Harvey who purchased Wivenhoe Park house Estate and later sold off  the plots of land.  here you can see the Park Hotel plot on the corner of the High St. and belle vue road and the new road now called Rebow Rd.

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When he died, he left £184 11s 5d. His widow didn't leave a will. I did ask my grandma - his grand-daughter - where the money went, but she didn't know. I suspect he spent it.
Hi Chris ,nice to here from you. John admin.
Thanks to Chris goddard (webrarian).

Hats off to those lads.

This could be the Essex Regiment band with troops at the church parade at Wivenhoe W.W..  That big base drum is in the Essex Regiment museum at Chelmsford essex.
Aside from the soldiers (dread to think how many of them didn't come back), it's interesting to see the churchyard with the headstones and box tombs in it. They were all taken down before I was born

Thanks to Helen Barrell.

That gun is nearly as big as Edice.

Edice Hatch aged 13 at the Army camp on Spion Kop Wivenhoe during W.W.1

There are some Wivenhoe names in there.

A Wivenhoe drama group, performing (merry England ) at the arts club, 1972-3.
Back row George Burnham,  Geoff Self.
Front row,  J Parrot (Cloverly),  Tony Allcock,  Doug Green,  Grace Smith,  Brian Critchley,, Graham Wadley,   seated  Helen O'Malley  Hilary Wix(Wadley), M. Footring,,Jessie Holden(seated in audience area).

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Oops!   John Admin.

I well remember that show!  Great fun. - I still have a programme for it somewhere.

It is Helen O'Malley seated (not Hilary) and we both are Wadleys with an E

Graham Wadley.

Thanks graham.

Look at those lovely barges.

This is when the Hythe was a flourishing port. i think they were either Parry's oil mills, or R.W. Pauls

Who thought of that one?

The Great Eastern local express.  Brightlingsea and Wivenhoe to St. Botolphs .

There where some ponds on these marshes that were good for catching eels

A snowy scene on the marshes ,showing the old ferry toll house and the Army surplus stores ,this photo could have been taken in the late 1940-'s does any old Wivenhovian remember this scene ??
please leave a comment as i not sure of the date.

What a nice touch

A CARD FROM THE SCHOOLCHILDREN AT WIVENHOE TO SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT FOR CHRISTMAS.
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The will of William Frauncis of Wivenhoe Jan 1561 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st.


To the poor folk of Wivenhoe 20s.To be delivered to the collector of the poor.  I give for part of the charges of the healing of widow Webb's son's legs 5 shillings.  To mother Banks3s4d.  I will that at the day of my burial there be given to the poor 6s8d.  To repairing of the church at Wivenhoe 5shillings.  To Margaret my Wife my house in Alresford called Ford House with the Appurtenances for her life, on condition that she makes no claim to any of my lands in Wivenhoe .  To her my household stuff as she bought with her , her apparel and my first wife's apparel, 20 marks ,and 3 good beasts.

To my maid Joan Peacock my dun bullock.  To Edward Able and his Wife of Ardleigh my copyhold in Wivenhoe  called Christophers for their lives; after their decease, to my godson William Able; if he live not , to be divided among his brothers and sisters.  To Edward Able and his Wife a pan and brass pot; to their five children each 3 sheep, and to Edward an old flock bed.  To Ralph Keler and his Wife of Lawford my house in Wivenhoe called the Rose and the tenement adjoining it; to his three children each three sheep .  To my Son Robert Frauncis my two houses called Choises and Gowges, my house and ground in Wivenhoe called Hamons , and my greater house in Wivenhoe street(High street) that i bought of Richard Buller  which sometime John Southern's.  to my younger son thomas  my little house by the chantry house which i bought of Richard Buller.  To Thomas after my Wife's decease my tenement in Alresford called Ford House and my house in Wivenhoe called Hubbards .  To him all such household stuff as is mine which is at my house called the Rose.  To my eldest son Robert my grove in Elmstead which is freehold , it abutteth on Henry Heckford and John Chase.My Executors.  To the four men who will bear my body to the church each 12d.

I make Robert and Thomas my executors.  The rest of my goods to them equal portions .  I make John Chase of Elmstead my supervisor, and for his pains 6s8d.  Witnesses James Adams,Thomas Smthe, John Wakeringe, William Leye, William Bates.

From Essex wills of Elizabethan life bt F,G. Emmison.

I have ridden one of these trade bikes.

A young Edward Harvey outside the Co-op stores with the Co-op trade bike This photo could be around the 1940's

like the Ladies hats!

Wivenhoe church choir 1928]
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         Men's row. left to right.   Ernie Govan, Roger Sparling (landlord of the Station Hotel), Arthur Beckwith (brother of Reg Beckwith who ran a small dairy and shop in BelleVue Road opposite the Opticians), Mr.? Sparling (father of Roger Sparling, lived in Rowhedge and came across to both morning and evening services each Sunday), Bill Cracknell (my uncle, and ran the East Essex Bakery with his father, my grandfather), Jim Gould (Father of Iris Diggens nee Gould),  Dick Paul ( I know that he lived in one of the Gooch houses directly opposite to Boundary Road,and was, I believe, employed by the first Mr. Charles Gooch as butler, coachman etc.).

         The next row - I do not know the first lady, I believe that the second lady is Miss Thelma Wright, who became Mrs. Worsp, mother of John. Harry Hook (Churchwarden), Reverend ? (I will have to look at the display board in church as he was before my days). Mr. Jimmy Moore (Churchwarden), Mr. Green (Choirmaster and organist),  Mrs. Wadley ( as she became on marriage), last lady not known.Vicar is the reverend Carolin.

           Hope that this is of use to you.

Many thanks Tony Forsgate. 
 Reverend not reverent John, in the choir photo. I also believe that Miss Grasby's christian name was Betsy not Betty in the Council photo.
Thanks Tony.

Another Wivenhoe person of note.

Captain Mathew Martin of Wivenhoe Mansion House and later of Alresford Hall which he bought in, his 1720 he died in 1749, his Daughter married Isaac Lemying Rebow of Wivenhoe Park. Mathew was a commander for the East India Company. it is thought the Wivenhoe mansion house was on the site of the Railway station.

Read about his story here: http://www.essexinfo.net/queens-road-residents-association/assets/documents/wivenhoe-house-a-tale-of-two His mansion is believed to be sited off the High Street to the west of the bridge