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People

In this topic, you will find information about lots of people who are living in Wivenhoe at present or who have lived here and made the place what it is today.

  • Lord Hill of Wivenhoe

    Lord Hill of Wivenhoe

    About Ted Hill, who lived in Clifton Terrace, Wivenhoe, made a life peer for services to trade unions. Died 1969.
  • Lt Commander Leonard Charles Cockrell, Master Mariner in the early 1900s

    Lt Commander Leonard Charles Cockrell, Master Mariner in the early 1900s

    He served in the Royal Naval Reserve in WW1, was awarded the DSO and commanded the SY Vanessa
  • Mary Ann Howling - an early resident of the Mary Ann Sanford almshouses

    Mary Ann Howling - an early resident of the Mary Ann Sanford almshouses

    Born in 1811
  • Mary Ann Turner, one of the first residents in the Sanford Almshouses

    Mary Ann Turner, one of the first residents in the Sanford Almshouses

    About Mary Ann Turner and her family in the 1800s
  • McEvers Bayard Brown

    McEvers Bayard Brown

    Wivenhoe's eccentric American millionaire.
  • Member of Husk's Shipyard family visits the Wivenhoe Memories Exhibition - April 2015

    Member of Husk's Shipyard family visits the Wivenhoe Memories Exhibition - April 2015

    Capt Richard Husk CBE, who left Wivenhoe as a teenager in 1947
  • Memories of the Village Bakery

    Memories of the Village Bakery

    Now a restaurant called The Bakehouse but once a bakery run by Ernest Cracknell
  • Michael William Butt

    Michael William Butt

    Rectory Road Wivenhoe
  • Mr and Mrs Pawsey of Ballast Quay House

    Mr and Mrs Pawsey of Ballast Quay House

    Mr and Mrs Pawsey celebrate their Diamond Wedding in style
  • Mr Peter Green of Wivenhoe in his fishmonger's shop in Eld Lane, Colchester

    Mr Peter Green of Wivenhoe in his fishmonger's shop in Eld Lane, Colchester

    Picture taken in 1986
  • Opening Ceremony of the Wivenhoe Almshouses

    Opening Ceremony of the Wivenhoe Almshouses

    Chelmsford Chronicle Newspaper Report in 1873
  • Otto Magnus Andersen

    Otto Magnus Andersen

    Wivenhoe's Norwegian entrepreneur.
  • PC Sid Cox - Wivenhoe's policeman 1972 - 1997

    PC Sid Cox - Wivenhoe's policeman 1972 - 1997

    He was highly regarded by everyone in the Wivenhoe community.
  • People who have lived at Jonathan Feedham Court

    People who have lived at Jonathan Feedham Court

    Pictures of residents and former residents
  • People who have lived at the Mary Ann Sanford Almshouses

    People who have lived at the Mary Ann Sanford Almshouses

    PIctures of present and former residents
  • People who have worked for Wivenhoe Town Council

    People who have worked for Wivenhoe Town Council

    Some pictures of those people who have for the Council since its formation in 1974
  • Phoebe Burrows story from about 1850 to the present day

    Phoebe Burrows story from about 1850 to the present day

    A family story which goes full circle
  • Private Sid Ham Essex Regiment

    Private Sid Ham Essex Regiment

  • Rear Admiral John Lee Barber's 90th Birthday Celebration - April 1995

    Rear Admiral John Lee Barber's 90th Birthday Celebration - April 1995

    Rear Admiral John Lee Barber lived on the Quay in Wivenhoe during the 1980s - 1990s
  • Rear-Admiral John Lee Barber DSO CB (1905 - 1995)

    Rear-Admiral John Lee Barber DSO CB (1905 - 1995)

    About John Lee-Barber who spent the last 15 years of his life living in Wivenhoe
  • Reflections on life at the Wivenhoe Girls and Infants School

    Reflections on life at the Wivenhoe Girls and Infants School

    Written by Topsy Jennings to celebrate the Centenary of this School in 1991
  • Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd

    Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd

    Shipwrights' Department 1922.
  • Residents of the Wivenhoe Almshouses

    Residents of the Wivenhoe Almshouses

    The residents of Mary Ann Sanford Almshouses and Jonathan Feedham Almshouses
  • Rifleman Harold HARLOW (died 25th April 1917)

    Rifleman Harold HARLOW (died 25th April 1917)

    Killed in action at Arras on 25 April 1917
  • The Gooch Family

    The Gooch Family (2)

  • The Havens Family

    The Havens Family (6)

  • People Interviewed for the Story of Wivenhoe

    People Interviewed for the Story of Wivenhoe (54)

  • People who served in WW1

    People who served in WW1 (5)

  • Other People

    Other People (65)

  • The Corsellis Family

    The Corsellis Family (10)

  • The de Veres

    The de Veres (2)

  • The Rebows and the Martins

    The Rebows and the Martins (16)

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