Re: Mersea natives


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 26, 2004 at 22:03:52 from 195.93.32.7 user ACB.

In Reply to: Mersea natives posted by John Barton on October 26, 2004 at 20:13:39:

Harrumph! I'm a Colchester boy, and I know a Native ostrea edulis when I see (and eat!) one! Actually, the proprietor of the Walton layings would agree with you; he spent some time denouncing the current Mersea practice of naming their natives "Colchesters", which apparently the Borough are allowing them to do, when in his view only an oyster spatted in Colne and fattened in Pyefleet deserves that name.

I remember that, as a schoolboy, I took part in a "dig" in the garden of one of the school houses to locate the Roman road between Camulodunum and Londinium; the ditches were absolutely full of oyster shells - Roman litter!


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