Mersea Museum, High Street, West Mersea, Mersea Island, Essex. CO5 8QD
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greysman
N 51° 46.510 E 000° 54.709
31U E 355935 N 5738095
A village museum presenting the traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building.
Waymark Code: WMMTT3
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/04/2014
Views: 4
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 an 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. In the museum is a Victorian postbox, lovingly cleaned and repainted, whilst just by the entrance door is the museum's Time Capsule buried on Saturday, 4th December, 2010.
Computers in the resource centre can access several thousand photos, slideshows, articles, parish records, local census contents, audio files, and video clips.
There is a mock-up of the method used to trawl for oysters and the reconstruction of a typical weather-boarded fisherman's cottage.
Public transport to the locale of the museum is available from Colchester and school and other parties are welcome outside normal opening hours. The entrance gate to the compound is at N 51° 46.524 E 000° 54.689.
Theme:
Anything to do with Mersea Island.
Street Address:
High Street
West Mersea
Mersea Island
Essex
CO5 8QD
United Kingdom
Food Court: no
Gift Shop: yes
Hours of Operation:
Opening hours: 2pm to 5pm
Wednesday to Sunday inclusive and on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Open from 1st May until the last Sunday in September.
Cost: 1.00 (listed in local currency)
Museum Size: Small
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
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