MEREM:2009.61.5

Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of Beatrice, friend of Catherine Fuller, in Women’s Land Army uniform by a ladder at a hayrick, c.1940 – 45.

County: Wiltshire

height: 14 cm

width: 10.7 cm

Classifications:
arms | agriculture | person

Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.61.6

Brief description: copy of a sepia photograph of Beatrice, friend of Catherine Fuller, in Women’s Land Army uniform, holding a horse and hayfork at Hill Deverill, c.1940 – 45.

Place: Hill Deverill

County: Wiltshire

height: 10.7 cm

width: 14.7 cm

Classifications:
arms | agriculture | person

Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.62

Brief description: leather cash bag stitched with thread, of a sort used by delivery men on their rounds,having three inner pockets fixed in place with medal studs, a metal toggle fastener and leather strap attached by more metal studs and with buckle, mid 20th century .

Associated person: Nurden, Robert M., Mr

Associated date: 1980

height: 28.7 cm

width: 15.1 cm

Classifications:
trade | butcher | person |
Material: leather
Condition: fair

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MEREM:2009.63

Brief description: copy of an article with a black and white photograph, printed in The Sunday Telegraph, about Robert Nurden, Butcher, of Mere, May 10th 1992.

height: 29.7 cm

width: 21 cm

Classifications:
trade | butcher | person |
Material: leather
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.64

Brief description: telegraph from 138 Squadron to A. H. Avery of Hazzards Hill, Mere, informing him that his son, Sergeant Philip Avery, was missing from an air operation on the night of September 25th-26th July 1942, received at Mere Post Office 27.7.1942.

height: 13.7 cm

width: 20.8 cm

Classifications:
society | communication | arms | person

Material: paper, ink
Condition: fair

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MEREM:2009.65

Brief description: folded leaflet printed in colour advertising Fives Court Residential Home in Mere, issued by The Orders of St. John Care Trust, 2009

height: 20.9 cm

width: 10 cm

Classifications:
society | health |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.67.1

Brief description: metal 4-ounce weight, marked ‘A.K. & Sons 4oz’ in raised letters and ’12’ on reverse, used at Burden and Sons’ nursery and florists, North St., Mere, mid-20th century

Associated person: Burden, Mr

Associated date: 1940

diameter: 4.7 c.m.

height: 1.2 c.m.

Classifications:
trade | nurseryman | trade |
Material: metal
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.67.2

Brief description: brass 4-ounce weight, marked ‘4oz’, used at Burden and Sons’ nursery and florists, North St., Mere, mid-20th century

Associated person: Burden, Mr

Associated date: 1940

diameter: 4.4 c.m.

height: 1 c.m.

Classifications:
trade | nurseryman | trade |
Material: metal
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.68

Brief description: printed electoral registers for parishes in the Mere and Tisbury rural district, clipped together in an orange paper cover with a metal fastener, 15th Oct. 1939 -14th Oct.1940.

Associated date: 1939

height: 25.8 cm

width: 16.5 cm

Classifications:
society | government |
Material: paper, metal
Condition: poor

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MEREM:2009.69

Brief description: deed of conveyance between Salisbury Diocesan Council of Education Inc.and the Parish Council of West Knoyle, Wilts regarding the sale and purchase of the former village school, now the village hall, dated 14th July 1950

height: 33 cm

width: 20.5 cm

Classifications:
society | law | society | government |
Material: paper, metal
Condition: poor

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