You can still see the clock on the church looking down to the river.

A view looking up Rose Lane . What is that building behind the Garrison house ,all that's left now is the roof outline on the house it was attached to.

left click on pic. for super size.

Not so much mud there then.

A VIEW, LOOKING ALONG THE QUAY FROM THE FERRY SHELTER.
Thanks to the Nottage Institute.

She was the original Wivhovian.

I think this a photo of Ruth Munson on her retirement from the St. Johns Ambulance.or Guides.
L-R. Val Last (nee Peck)Mr-Mrs Jack Barrell Ruth Munson cutting cake with Bonnie Hill........ Freda Annis ..........  .........

Apparently Granddad used to do fund raising for the Scouts and Guides (hence that photo the other day of him at a fete of some sort, I suppose!) and Grandma used to organise whist drives at the St. John's Ambulance. She could shuffle cards like a Las Vegas croupier.Helen Barrell.

The Scout and Guides logos are on the cake, so I'm assuming that's what it's to do with. I'm just wondering why my grandparents are in this photo as well! Maybe they were friends? Hmmm...Helen Barrell.
 

Fourth and Sixth rear I am sure is Maurice and Margaret Britton.

john holden.

They still have their railings on the walls.

This photo shows the Avenue before the building of Rosabelle Avenue , this could date it between 1946-7 the ground behind the picket fence are the orchards of Wivenhoe hall which ran up to Spring Lane near the Doctors Surgery.
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The Avenue.

I am sure that the orchard for Wivenhoe Hall did not run as far as Spring Lane.  There is a house which used to be occupied by Roger Bacon which is just up from the last of the council houses which face onto the Avenue and called Orchard End - the clue is in the name of the house and that is below Harvey Road

Also my late parents house at 61 The Avenue - about 5 down from the surgery was not part of the orchard as far as we are aware. They moved into 61 in 1947 and Rosabelle Avenue was under construction.  The rule was one council house had to be built alternately with a private development.

Hope that helps or confuses.

Graham Wadley

Thanks Graham.

What a lovely sight.

The Hopper dredger barge ,yard no.1512 completed and launched in 1986for the Northern Ireland harbour Authority, Belfast.  This was the last completed ship to be launched at James W, Cook.

Just found out MV Kilbourne has been in for a refit and had some changes made in 2012 :- Outboard engine removed and replaced with 2 inboard engines twin props and Rudder(s). Stern well removed, engine casing and funnel added. Dredging crane and seat removed and space obtained, to allow other types of dredging equipment to be fitted (Hydraulic Crawler crane, Pile Driving, Winches and other types as of machinery required for a particular job.) The above changes and general maintenance has given her approx. another 20 years Will send photo asap.
Thanks to Mike ex Cook's drawing offfice.

Jack kept he paper shop.

This photo taken somewhere in wivenhoe was taken in the `1960's at a fete at the table is Jack Barrell and the lady is either Winnie Cook or ,Turner,does anyone know where it was taken?

Thanks to Helen Barrell for the photo.

Winnie Turner/Cook - one and the same.  This is I am sure Malcolm Turner's mother whose maiden name was Cook.

This might answer a few questions or create more

Memoir of General Rebow.

He was Born in1770, and was the Son of  Richsrd Slater,Esq the descendant an old Derbyshire Family resident for several generations at Chesterfield, in that county.

He assumed the surname of Rebow in addition to his patronymic on his marriage with Mary Hester,eldest daughter and eventually sole heiress of Isaac Martin Rebow ,Esq, of Wivenhoe park, who was for many years Colonel of the Essex Militia, and recorder and M.P for Colchester  of which his ancestors had been also the Representatives in parliament for three generations.

General Rebow entered the army 14th Nov. 1787 as an Ensign in the 60th Foot and accompanied that regiment to the East indies.

General Rebow  married,as already stated , the heiress of the Wivenhoe Park Estate, which Lady died 23rd July 1834, having had issue two daughters, viz, Mary Emma, who died young in 1804, and Mary Martin , who also assumed the additional surname of Rebow, and married first in 1824Sir Thomas Ormsby, Bart.   And secondly in 1835 John Gurdon, Esq,second son of Theophilas Thornhaugh Gurdon ,Esq of Letton, Norfolk, but of neither of these marrieges is there surviving issue, and Lady Ormsby Rebow pre-deceased her Father 17th Sept. 1842.  The Family therefore ,both in name and blood , has now become extinct.
Francis Slater Rebow commissioned  John Constable in 1816 to commit to canvas the house and grounds for a fee of 100 guineas, the painting is now in the national gallery of art in Washington D.C.
Genersal Francis Slater rebow died in 1845.
Mary Hester Rebow died in 1834 wife of General Rebow .
 Mary Martin died 1842 aged 38 years.
When General Rebow died the estate passed to his Son in law John Gurdon Rebow, when he  died the estate passed on to Hector Gurdon Rebow , and in 1902 the estate was purchased by Charles Edmund Gooch.

The gentleman's magazine 1845.