Ship's Anchor, Mersea Museum, High Street, West Mersea, Mersea Island, Essex. CO5 8QD
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greysman
N 51° 46.512 E 000° 54.691
31U E 355915 N 5738099
A less than perfect K6 waiting cleaning and painting in the disabled car park of this small village museum.
Waymark Code: WMMVFV
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/08/2014
Views: 2
The Mersea Museum occupies purpose-built accomodation very near to the village church of St.Peter and St.Paul in the centre of West Mersea. It was established in 1976. There are collections representing local; history, social history, natural history and geology, with many local photographs, some oral history, family history and parish records. There are items of marine history, local engineering and costumes. The John Leather Memorial Collection is also housed here.
There is a large outdoor area, for disabled person parking, which has on display this anchor hauled up from 'The Barrow Deep' by a local fisherman, an unidentified American aircraft propeller, also raised by a local fisherman, and a K6 'phone box removed here from its original position and looking in need of some TLC.
The anchor is large in size but not weight but still of the admiralty pattern well known to fishermen and the general public. This anchor has a timber stock which dates it to before the late 1830s when the stocks were changed to iron.
A plaque near the 'business' end says:-
FOUND IN
THE BARROW DEEP
AUGUST 1977
PRESENTED BY
PAT MEAD
FISHERMAN OF WEST MERSEA
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