Many Wivenhoe men joined up here.

The Army recruitment office in the High St. next to the hairdressers.  This was used by the Essex Regiment in 1914.

Go Bobby Boy.

Wivenhoe Town played the Boby Charlton XI .

A crew from the Netherlands.

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.

That wheelbarrow looks mighty heavy.

A view down Wivenhoe High Street taken around 1908.

You don't know what you have lost until it's gone.

The old Wivenhoe Co-op.  This photo was taken by Jan Sparkes in the 1970's before it was refurbished.  It was a lovely old building.

Suprising what you can make out of wood

One of the dummy wooden submarines built at Wivenhoe shipyard for use at Harwich during W.W.2

Archie was crew on the Golden Dawn.

Two fishermen of one of Wivenhoe's oldest families .  Left is Arthur (Archie ) William Gunn and his father Charlie Gunn.

This was the seat of the De-Vere family in the 16th century.

Wivenhoe Hall in all it's glory in the High Street.  It is said the cellars were of Norman origin.  The North wing dates from the 1560's.  The hall burnt down in 1927 .

Blackbeard would not look out of place on this fine ship.

The Lord Nelson seen here in full sail with her handicapped crew pushing her hard, built at Cook's shipyard she looks a beauty.

Where did he carry the coal?

There is a Wivenhoe connection here, this is a photo of one of Chopping's flour Millers sentinel steam lorries seen here hauling flour out of Fingringhoe Mill, Richard Chopping the artist who lived in the little store house on the Quay is descended from the Chopping flour milling family.