By Richard Pattison [i] Pirate themed events and parties are popular and fun. After all pirates are romantic swashbuckling heroes; aren’t they? Chuck in some desert islands, battling the odds against officialdom and authority, some treasure and you have the makings of the pirate story. Popular pirates from Treasure Island’s Long John Silver to Jack […]
By Sir Richard Matthews Then as now back in the early 1960’s, Mersea Cadet Week was one of the highlights of our sailing season. Back in the day, I won the 1st overall Viking Trophy in 1962 and again in ’64 and my best mate at the time Nigel Banks won in ’63. Interestingly, our […]
‘Splice the Main Brace!’-it’s our Pirate themed Mersea Cadet Week 2019 ‘This is the week you will always remember as the week you (definitely) took part in Cadet Week.’ A rather apt, misquote from Captain Jack. Somehow Mersea Cadet Week gets better every year. Also, from the film, ‘This is either madness or brilliance’ (The […]
My great, great, great uncle – Private Arthur David Pullen James Humphreys My great great great uncle, Private Arthur David Pullen, was in the First World War and was 24. Arthur David Pullen was born in 1894, the son of Mr and Mrs W.J. Pullen of the high street, west Mersea. A fisherman in civilian […]
LIFE ON MERSEA ISLAND (POPULATION 1,600) AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT WAR AUGUST 4TH 1914. Summer was nearly over and, symbolically, this was to be the last harvest of an era – the world would never again be quite the same. “When war was declared on 4 August 1914, I had just taken over […]
Fly with Edgar 1889 Born 11th August 1901 Census National Archives records him as the 11 year old son of George E Roberts & Elizabeth A Roberts Address: 291 Seven Sisters Road, Stoke Newington, London 1914 August Edgar George Roberts joined the Honourable Artillery Company and was a Driver in its B Battery. He went […]
Born in 1916 Mick came as a puppy from Leicestershire to his master when he was training as an air pilot at Northolt Aerodrome. Mick loved Edgar Roberts, his master, and was gentle and loving to all mankind. He flew with Edgar and was always his companion, except when Edgar went abroad to fight in […]
Below in an excerpt taken from Mersea Island Tales 100 YEARS AGO TODAY WAR DIARY MAIN EVENTS MAY 1918 Follow our diary through the war years as part of our commemoration of the First World War and the events leading up to it. Entries kindly maintained by local Historian Godfrey Thomas, author of Every one […]
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