Files were downloaded from SoundCloud c22 Jan 2020, saved via SoundTap. Saved in AudioVisual/WAV019/Audio/SearchingMersea Sep 2022

For online version see searchingmersea.com (Nov 2024 no longer available)

10Nov2024 files renamed from AA011601 to AA011600_001 etc as the old numbers duplicated other audio IDs.

List of files
AA011600_001 John Pullen Appleby seeing an aircraft wreck raised out of the estuary
AA011600_002 David Stoker - dredging up Bellamine jugs
AA011600_003.wav
AA011600_003 Pixie Weaver - memory of cows wandering into a minefield
AA011600_004 Daniel "Bubbie" French - finding an Iron Age skull
AA011600_005 Daniel French Senior - finding a Bronze Age trackway
AA011600_006 David Conway - finding WWII munitions in the mud 1m 19s
AA011600_007 Mark Dixon - finding a mammoth's tooth
AA011600_008 David Conway - changing wildlife and activities on the foreshore
AA011600_009 David Conway - finding Roman Pottery at Monkey Steps
AA011600_010 David Conway - poaching and getting caught
AA011600_011 David Conway - metal detectoring finds from the island (this file repeated itself)
AA011600_012.wav
AA011600_012 David Conway - Musket & cannon balls found around Civil War Fort
AA011600_014 David Nichols - fishing with sticks, finding ancient tree roots in the mud (if you want ...
AA011600_015 David Nichols - possible medieval habitation of Ray Island, brick and pottery, exploded munitions
AA011600_016 David Nichols - childhood holidays at Waldegraves. How the foreshore has changed since then
AA011600_017.wav
AA011600_017 Dave Conway - changes on foreshore
AA011600_018.wav
AA011600_018 Dave Conway - working as a seawaller to
AA011600_019 Allan Bird - dreaming of becoming an oysterman 2m 29s
AA011600_020 Allan Bird - erosion on foreshore, Roman fort of Othona, Ray Sand 1m 20s
AA011600_021 Allan Bird - finding things, drunken pranks and clay heads (now in Museum) 1m 54s
AA011600_022 Allan Bird - searching offshore sandbanks for lost WW2 aircraft 2m 22s
AA011600_023 Allan Bird - legend of Salcott bell (9m 43s)
AA011600_024 Mark Dixon - history and decline of eel grass and its effect on the foreshore 2m 37s
AA011600_025 Mark Dixon - continuity of usage off monkey steps, foreshore changes in East Mersea 2m 12s
AA011600_026.wav 123632 now out of sequence
AA011600_026 Mark Dixon finding mammoth's tusk 1m 16s
AA011600_027 Mark Dixon finding pottery and animal bones 46s
AA011600_028 Mark Dixon changing foreshore stakes off Cobmarsh, doodlebug off Decoy Point, Mines on Beach 2m 16s
AA911600_029 Mark Dixon changing wildlife in the estuary Ecological Warming 2m 31s
AA011600_030 Mark Dixon changes at the Monkey Steps, pits etc. 2m 16s
AA011600_031.wav 131042
AA011600_031 Don Rainbird - Salcott Creek, Brunel's windmill and siphons, Old Hall's lost shipyard & community 1m 58s
AA011600_032 Don Rainbird - catching lobsters and finding neolithic woodland
AA011600_033 Don Rainbird - finding Roman Pottery on Cobmarsh Island
AA011600_034 Don Rainbird - Red Hills bottom of Kingsland road, changing foreshore around Buzzom
AA011600_035 Brian Jay - changes at Cudmore Grove, spigot mortar base, lost creek, old golf house
AA011600_036 Brian Jay - changes foreshore on south side of island
AA011600_037 Brian Jay - decoy point
AA011600_038 Brian Jay - wild boar skeleton at bottom of Beach Road
AA011600_039 David Conway - monkey beach & Roman pottery, Seaview fish traps
AA011600_040 Jeff Wass - memories of foraging on Mersea, wildlife lost and new ?? 2m 28s
AA011600_041.wav
AA011600_041 Jeff wass - finding old wrecks, boats abandoned because of the war
AA011600_042 Jeff Wass - lost place names along the foreshore, changing place names
AA011600_043 Jeff Wass - memories of strange finds whilst oystering
AA011600_044 Jeff Wass - mysterious posts in Salcott creek, lost boats
AA011600_045 Jeff Wass - names for dredges, tendles, equipment and various oyster layings
AA011600_046 Jeff Wass - old oyster pits, finding relics in old abandoned hards
AA011600_047 Daniel French Senior - Thirslett Spit, saxon fish traps
AA011600_048 Daniel French Senior - sedimentation of the Colne
AA011600_049 Pixie Weaver - hidden underground WW2 ammunition dump, Victoria Esplanade
AA011600_050 Pixie Weaver - explosives under the Strood
AA011600_051 Pixie Weaver - oyster collecting down Seaview Avenue and nearby coastal change
AA011600_052 Pixie Weaver - memories of seeing WW2 aeroplane crash
AA011600_053.wav
AA011600_053 Pixie Weaver - searchlights and doodlebugs landing on Mersea
AA011600_054 David Conway - metal detectoring finds at Abbotts Hall etc, bricks (old Abbotts Hall ?)
AA011600_055 Daniel Bubbie French finds whilst oyster picking
aa011600_056.wav
AA011600_056 Daniel "Bubbie" French - Coopers Beach, wooden stakes, possible fish traps
AA011600_057 Daniel Bubbie French - fossilised wood
AA011600_058 Daniel French senior ancient trees, coastal erosion
AA011600_059 Daniel French senior coastal change Cobmarsh Island
AA011600_060 Jane Dixon - Red Hills, Fen Farm
AA011600_061 Jane Dixon - mysterious pits and change
AA011600_062 Carol Wyatt Monkey Beach, memories and change
AA011600_063 Carol Wyatt Hove Creek WW2 barbed wire
AA011600_064 Carol Wyatt - memories of wildlife on Feldy Marshes & Packing Marsh, stranded on Pioneer wreck
AA011600_065.wav
AA011600_065 Carol Wyatt - West Mersea caravan site, possible salt pans
AA011600_066 Carol Wyatt - delivering groceries to flooded houses
AA011600_067 Carol Wyatt - houseboats, causeway, tidal flooding
AA011600_068 Carol Wyatt - Kings Hard
AA011600_069 Carol Wyatt - Monkey Beach and breakwaters, Beach Road
AA011600_070 Carol Wyatt - horse riding, Miss Catchpole, Beach Road
AA011600_071 Carol Wyatt - searching with CITiZAN
AA011600_072 Daniel Bubbie French Coopers Beach - erosion of archaeology
AA011600_073 Jane Dixon - erosion and coastal change on the island, eel grass
AA011600_074 Jane Dixon - possible_fish_traps_rows_of_stakes
AA011600_075 Jane Dixon - bison skeleton, wild boar
AA011600_076 John Pullen_Appleby WW2 gun battery Cudmore Grove
AA011600_077 David Stoker decline of local fishing
AA011600_078.wav
AA011600_078 David Stoker - dredging up aeroplanes
AA011600_079 David Stoker - dredging up anchors
AA011600_080 David Stoker - dredging up WW2 mines
AA011600_081 David Stoker - foreshore change on Coopers Beach, the Molliette wreck
AA011600_082 Carol Wyatt - finding things, change near Cudmore Grove
AA011600_083 Carol Wyatt - beach huts, 1953 flood, Bradwell power station
AA011600_084 David Stoker - Thames Barge Wrecks
AA011600_085 David Stoker - foreshore changes, Cobmarsh
AA011600_086 Jane Dixon - ebbing, Monkey Steps, bottles, bones
AA011600_087 Jane Dixon - iron age burial, Rewsells
AA011600_088 Jane Dixon - posts and possible settlement off Rewsells Farm
AA011600_089 Jane Dixon - mammoth tusk
AA011600_090 Jane Dixon - mysterious stone circles, cirle of stakes
AA011600_091 Ralph Malet Merry - wrecks, oysters
AA011600_092 Ralph Malet Merry - wreck near Monkey steps, Roman remains, animal bones
AA011600_093 David Nichols - Ray Island's unsolved mysteries, a possible Viking encampment 1Mm 57s
AA011600_094.wav
AA011600_094 Dave Nichols - more holiday memories, mud pools, eel shears, winkling
AA011600_095 David Nichols - more mysteries or Ray Island, 17th century farming, ridges and furrows
AA011600_096 Allan Bird - finding things dredging, a passion for searching
AA011600_097 Ralph Merry - Roman lighthouse, pottery fragments, finding red hills, how they were used
AA011600_098 Ralph Merry - coastal change, new beaches, longshore drift
AA011600_099.wav
AA011600_099 Ralph Merry - describing the process of finding things
AA011600_100 Ralph Merry - finding an ancient human tool made with a deer antler
AA011600_101 Ralph Merry - holidays on Mersea, barbed wire and mines, eel grass and process of erosion
AA011600_102 Jess Wass - Packing Marsh Island, mysterious stakes
AA011600_103 Jess Wass - sharks teeth off Bradwell Power station
AA011600_104 Jeff Wass - Strood, lost watermill
AA011600_106 Pixie Weaver - The Firs - smuggling Tunnel
AA011600_107.wav
AA011600_107 John Pullen-Appleby: Ray Island, mysterious remains, bomb holes and clay pipes
AA011600_108.wav
AA011600_108 John Pullen Appleby: the boating lake and the seaside resort that never was
AA011600_109 John Pullen-Appleby: house boats and yacht racing and royals
AA011600_110 John Pullen-Appleby - the decoy
AA011600_111 John Pullen-Appleby - the youth camp, philanthropy, neo-Nazis, motorbike rallies
AA011600_112.wav
AA011600_112 John Pullen-Appleby - Kings Hard - memories of how the monkey steps have changed
AA011600_113.wav
AA011600_113 John Pullen_Appleby_seeing_aircraft_raised_from_river
AA011600_114 John Pullen-Appleby memories of Cobmarsh Island, barge wrecks, shram for chickens
AA011600_115 John Pullen appleby famous ships in the Blackwater and estuary landen with oranges
AA011600_116 John Pullen Appleby finding bottles, pot sherds and bellamine jugs

See searchingmersea.txt for more notes about the actual files