I think i will bottle some Wivenhoe air!!

Bricklesea Breezes, bottled fresh air, can you believe it?
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It was cold that year!!

Brightlingsea Creek in 1947, possibly the worst winter ever

Lovely sprats and herrings

Unloading sprats on Brightlingsea hard 1930.

More boats with their silver harvest.

More sprat boats at Brightlingsea.

I love sprats.

Sprat boats unloading their catch on the hard at Brightlingsea.

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

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.

Great no engines.

A lovely view of Brightlingsea,Essex.not a motor boat in sight. What peace!

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.

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Looks as though you could walk across there

The big freeze at Brightlingsea 1947.

Paul Brown pic. Left click on image for super size.

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I was there . It was a great school.

Wivenhoe pupils at the Brightlingsea secondary modern school in 1960, the form master was Mr. Appleby and the class was SS1

Strange place to build a folly.

The Batemans tower folly, built 1882 at Brightlingsea.  This was before the promenade was built.

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Douglas Went photograph.

A great photograph.

A moody atmosphere at Brightlingsea , at the start of the herring season, date unknown. Notice the fisherman bottom left of pic. smoking a clay pipe.

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He looks a proper old salt.

It's not wivenhoe ,but i do like it , this is Bob Howe the Brightlingsea Ferry man.

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