https://twitter.com/PcTomRaes/status/1098522015508676608, Motorists were urged to avoid The Strood this morning following a crash which left two people injured Picture: SEANA HUGHES. Once Strood started to be filled in various boatyards and ship repair businesses started up both on the river and in the creeks which drain the marshes. Just before 8 p.m., a vehicle left the road, hit a. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Because he is marching on the original Roman road, which has been buried by subsequent accretions of road-building materials. "Firefighters worked to release the casualty and left them in the care of the ambulance service.". or isn't appropriate for all viewers. [9] The parish of Strood utilised some of the money to provide a workhouse for the poor. You can still license these videos but at a rate different to your standard arrangement. When the tide was rising, water flowed into the mill pond driving a mill, when the tide was falling, water flowed back into the river, driving the mill. RM H52MD5 - A car drives on The Strood crossing between Mersea Island and mainland Essex, which floods at high tide. 01. Commercially the venture was a failure, because tolls were high to recoup the cost, entry to the basins could only occur at high tides (making it quicker to sail the 47 miles (76km) round the Isle of Grain). inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Up to 620 homes are planned to be built and up to 12,300 sq metres of mixed-use employment and retail floorspace to develop. All emergency services are in attendance. Special Constable Edgar Nicholas, who lived nearby, made his way to the scene and came across the crew walking along a road after they had set the Zeppelin alight. During WW1 troops were stationed on the island, Mersea had become a restricted area and the beaches and the Strood were patrolled daily. (function(){window.pagespeed=window.pagespeed||{};var b=window.pagespeed;function c(){}c.prototype.a=function(){var a=document.getElementsByTagName("pagespeed_iframe");if(0