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Friday, December 30, 2016

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.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Go Bobby Boy.

Wivenhoe Town played the Boby Charlton XI .

Monday, December 12, 2016

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.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

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.