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Southend-on-Sea (unitary authority)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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A Shoebury job, 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/66
Scope and Contents

272 x 203 mm. A view showing artillery officers and men posed beside a piece of heavy artillery suspended by blocks and tackle above a railway sidecar.

Dates: 1887 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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A Shoebury Shift, 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/71
Scope and Contents

275 x 202 mm. A view showing the barrel of a large piece of artillery resting on blocks of wood, with an artillery man standing beside the barrel.

Dates: 1887 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Barrack Clock [Shoeburyness], 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/53
Scope and Contents

130 x 166 mm. A view showing the barrack clocktower and entrance with a guard platoon at attention in front of it.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Clock tower, conning tower, and Blokes Row [Shoeburyness], 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/67
Scope and Contents

70 x 136 mm. Three paintings of these locations montaged and rephotographed.

Dates: 1887 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Garrison Church, 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/69
Scope and Contents

225 x 171 mm. A view looking across a field towards the Shoeburyness Garrison Church, built in 1886, with the clock tower visible in the distance at the right of the print. Two Barrack Blocks lie between the church and the tower.

Dates: 1887 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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High Street, Shoeburyness, 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/61
Scope and Contents

134 x 81 mm. A view looking along the quiet High Street from the south-west, at the end of which was the entrance gate to the Barracks and Ranges. Photograph signed 'Poulton's Series'.

Dates: 1887 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Miscellaneous sketches], 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/55
Scope and Contents

176 x 184 mm. Pen and ink sketches. Five sketches relating to the National Artillery Association Meeting of 1886 showing various parts of the Shoeburyness camp: the Canteen, the General Store run by William Coupe, the Telegraph Tent, the shoeblack's quarters, the field ovens and the notice board.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Offr. Qurs. [i.e. Officers' Quarters] Long Course [Shoeburyness], 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/54
Scope and Contents

213 x 128 mm. An exterior view of the barracks buildings.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Shoebury. From shotyard, 1889-10-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/59
Scope and Contents

123 x 84 mm. Partially coloured watercolour and pencil sketch. A view looking towards Shoebury with gun emplacements in the foreground. The house in the background is the Commandant's Quarter and the Range Tower is on the left.

Dates: 1889-10-13
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sketches of Shoeburyness. N.A.A. Camp 1886, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/56
Scope and Contents

175 x 168 mm. Pen and ink sketches. Four sketches showing: the ranges at low tide, untouched target on the sands, looking in from the sands and the entrance to the camp.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Southend Pier, 1863 - 1896

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/134
Scope and Contents

223 x 163 mm. Coloured reproduction of the pier at Southend-on-Sea . The print is numbered '10, 215'.

Dates: 1863 - 1896
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Southend, West Parade, 1863 - 1896

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/135
Scope and Contents

225 x 163 mm. Coloured reproduction of West Parade at Southend-on-Sea.

Dates: 1863 - 1896
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View from my quarters, 1887 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A/68
Scope and Contents

208 x 153 mm. A view from the Long Course Officers Quarters looking out over a small orchard towards the garrison church at Shoeburyness.

Dates: 1887 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).