Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of John Glover, Mere town crier c.1880

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 19.1cm

width: 13.7cm

Classifications:
society | customs | person |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: small portable typewriter with black and red ribbon,fixed to base of carrying case which has a handle and clasp, made by Underwood c.1929

Associated person: Ebbisham, Flavia, Lady

Associated date: 1920

height: 10.5 cm (typewriter)

width: 29.4 cm (typewriter)

Classifications:
society | communication | technology |
Material: metal, rubber, fabric, plastic
Condition: fair

Brief description: coloured photograph of an 18th-century long-case clock made by Kingston Avery of Mere, taken at the home of the owner, 2009

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated person: Vincent, Haviland, Mr

height: 15.1 cm

width: 10.1 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: coloured photograph of the face of an 18th-century long-case clock made by Kingston Avery of Mere, taken at the home of the owner, 2009

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated person: Vincent, Haviland, Mr

height: 15.1 cm

width: 10.1 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: children’s pastime called ‘Bead Laying’ consisting of red cardboard box with flat lid, both decorated, containing two trays of perforated cardboard for making patterns with coloured wooden beads, these once stored in a cardboard tray, now in two tins (formerly holding ‘Sucrets’ and Cherry cough pastilles), 1900 = 1949

Associated person: Crumpton, Mrs

Associated date: 1900

height: 4 cm

width: 26.7cm

Classifications:
recreation | toys |
Material: wood cardboard
Condition: poor

Brief description: children’s game called ‘Dizzy Dots, The New Parlour Game’, consisting of red folding board comprising a central circle and rotating disk and blank printed circles, and a small red box with lid containing 6 red, 7 green and 9 cream cardboard disks or counters, 1900 = 1949

Associated person: Crumpton, Mrs

Associated date: 1900

height: 33 cm (board closed)

width: 33 cm (board closed)

Classifications:
recreation | toys |
Material: cardboard, paper
Condition: fair

Brief description: black and white photograph of a close-up of the disused Kingston Avery clock mechanism in the Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere, made in the 18th Century

height: 17.7 cm

width: 12.6 cm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of the hand operated chiming mechanism in the Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere

height: 8.7 cm

width: 13.8 cm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of a close-up of the hand operated chiming mechanism in the Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere

height: 12.6 cm

width: 17.7 cm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of a group photo of 7 bellringers (?) at the Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere c.1900

height: 12.7 cm

width: 17.8 cm

Classifications:
society | religion | recreation | bellringing |
Material:
Condition: good