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From: "colleen morrison" <>
Subject: Winston CHURCHILL in West Mersea WW2 - why?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:57:10 -0000
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I forgot to ask my question. What would Winston Chruchill have been doing in
West Mersea in wartime? Something to do with a military base/training
camps, weapon or equipment testing or something of that ilk in the area?

Colleen


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From: "colleen morrison" <>


>I have a photo of Mary Hones (c1890-1871), who founded the West Mersea
>Sailing Club - not the snobbish establishment it sounds, it was a bit of a
>spit and sawdust pub, I'm told, and a classless establishment, where gentry
>and the poorest sailors rubbed shoulders and told endless yarns about their
>greatest moments afloat.
>
> One day during the war, so an article in Essex Countryside says, Winston
> Churchill popped his unmistakable cigar around the door and asked if he
> had any chance of some food.
>
> Welcoming him into her club, Mary Hones quietly put the word about that
> she had nothing fit to offer the great man - but within no time at all she
> did, everyone donated something. Winston declared after he's eaten that
> this was the finest meal he'd had in wartime and that he wasn't going to
> ask her how she managed it!




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