What industry we had and lost.

An old steam yacht in the dry dock at forrestt's yard Wivenhoe, now the Wivenhoe Port housing Estate.  The dry dock was built around 1888.

Wait till you see her in full sail.

Work on the Lord Nelson, sail training ship being built at James .W. Cook Shipyard at Wivenhoe for the jubilee sailing Trust in the 1980's.

You needed your wellies on ,most of the time.

Mr Jack Hatch the local postman on Spion Kop near Manor Rd.1950's

A chemist that sells cigaretts and medicine!?

William Brown's apothecary's shop on the corner of East St. and Anchor Hill.

The Admiral Day in Cook's basin being fitted out ,the yard master's office can be seen on the right of the picture, i think his name was Mr. Hodson.
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No white coats or hat's

Frank's the bakers in East St Wivenhoe, now a private house.

Poor Wivenhoe people.

The death of Mrs. Susannah Bates a local Wivenhoe Woman of a well known sea farer Family.
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I am a descendant of the Bates family and Susannah was my Gt Gt Aunt. Elijah Turner married my Gt Aunt Caroline and they are the parents of Tom Turner who is on the war memorial at Wivenhoe. I have been following the family through the census and trying to locate where they lived. I have been able to get a rough location for most of them using nearby landmarks (pubs etc) but I cannot locate Bovits or Bovets hole which is in the 1871 census and was somewhere near Angelsey Rd. If anyone can help me with the location I would be grateful. David Bates.


Hi David Bobbets hole was a term used for the water mill house that used to be on the Brook at Wivenhoe .  It is now part of the dene Park Estate that you can pull up on Google Earth There is a road called bobbits way. Best wishes John Stew\art Admin.