Re: Mersea natives


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 27, 2004 at 10:25:05 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: Mersea natives posted by John Barton on October 27, 2004 at 03:27:43:

I'm two generations behind you, John, and maybe a hundred yards away. The dig that I was thinking of was in the summer of 1970, in the gardens of the house between Lessenden and Elianore House, which the school had just acquired. We trenched across to locate the road and took a section of it. A`decent coin and some more Samian fragments, besides the oysters. Arthur Brown was teaching Classics and Ralph Currey taught me Shakespeare. By that time the new dining hut was the boarders' games hut, as it still is, I think.

I was a boarder, and kept my first boat, bought with the proceeds of strawberry picking at Tiptree after "O" levels and a fair wind from my father, at Ben Clarke's yard in The Lane, with a mooring off the end of the hard. Alas, I did not make the connection between Michael Frost the dentist with Yachting Monthly in his waiting room and Michael Frost the owner of the Boadicea until I had left school. There were just enough of the old brigade left to make learning to sail in Mersea a truly terrifying experience!


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