A Red Cross VAD nurse during WW1
Extract from the Will of Henry Foote, yeoman, 29 March 1595, Essex Record Office D/ACW 3/204
Next to the water tower in Tower Road.
Daughter of James Green drowned aged 3
He ran the Wivenhoe newsagents during the 1960s
A tribute to a lovely lady who was respected by everyone
About Joan Hickson who lived in Wivenhoe
By Nicholas Butler, Nicholas Butler, 1997, ISBN 0 95707376 1 5, 224pp, (E.WIV.920 HAR)
His funeral will be on Friday 23rd March at 2.30pm. Read about his contribution to Wivenhoe
Staymaker of Wivenhoe (National Archives PROB 11/941/291)
Joyce is the daughter of the yachtsman, Ben Blackwood. She became a teacher and a pioneer woman sailor. She was born in Queens Road in 1928 and lived there for 83 years.
A tragic accident at Wivenhoe Railway Station
Mark Paterson bought Little Wick in 1979
About Ted Hill, who lived in Clifton Terrace, Wivenhoe, made a life peer for services to trade unions. Died 1969.
He served in the Royal Naval Reserve in WW1, was awarded the DSO and commanded the SY Vanessa
The Charity built the seven almshouse bungalows in Vanessa Drive in 1974
His memories of growing up here in the 1950s
Wivenhoe's Norwegian entrepreneur.
They were happy days. They knew all of their regulars.
A surprising link between The Railway Hotel, Tom Powell and the Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome