Brief description: leather pouch stitched with thread and with 5 medal studs (possibly repairs). with 4 holes along the top and a small pouch fixed by nails to the back, used to hold a skinning knife, once belonging to Robert Nurden’s (butcher of Mere) grandfather, c.1900
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
Brief description: motor fuel ration book serial number LH1 715001, printed in colours on buff paper, leaves stapled together, never used, possibly issued at the time of the Suez crisis, 1956.
Associated date: 1956
height: 7.6 cm
width: 12.2 cm
Classifications:
transport | road |
Material: paper, metal staple, ink
Condition: fair
Brief description: black and white photograph of Mere Carnival Queen and attendants at the Clock Tower, Mere, c.1932
County: Wiltshire
height: 13.6 cm
width: 23.4 cm
Classifications:
person | events | environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of hoardings on Castle St., Mere around one of the surviving parts of the old Union building (the workhouse) after demolition of Hoare’s garage which formerly occupied the adjacent site, prior to renovation as part of the ‘St. Michael’s View’ housing development, c.2007
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.3 cm
width: 15.2 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of hoardings around the building site on Castle St., Mere after demolition of Hoare’s garage, prior to building the ‘St. Michael’s View’ housing development, c.2007
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.3 cm
width: 15.2 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of building works at the old fire station, The Square, Mere, to convert the station into a private house, 2008
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.3 cm
width: 15.2 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: driving licence no. 49320 issued by the taxation officer for Wltshire County Council to Albert Victor Coombes of Cornish Farm, Mere (West Knoyle) for the year 1st March 1930 to 28th February 1931
Associated date: 1.3.1930
height: 15 cm
width: 13 cm
Classifications:
society | government | transport | road | person
Material: paper, ink
Condition: fair
Brief description: pass card (contribution record card) for the Mere Lodge of Wilsthire Working Men’s Conservative Benefit Society issued to Albert Victor Coombes (aged 26) of Cornish Farm, Mere (West Knoyle) for the year 1936
Associated date: 1936
height: 12.5 cm
width: 7.7 cm
Classifications:
society | money | person |
Material: card, ink
Condition: fair
Brief description: pass card (contribution record card) for the Mere Lodge of Wilsthire Working Men’s Conservative Benefit Society issued to Albert Victor Coombes (aged 27) of Cornish Farm, Mere (West Knoyle) for the year 1937
Associated date: 1937
height: 12.5 cm
width: 7.7 cm
Classifications:
society | money | person |
Material: card, ink
Condition: good
Brief description: pass card (contribution record card) for the Mere Lodge of Wilsthire Working Men’s Conservative Benefit Society issued to Albert Victor Coombes (aged 28) of Cornish Farm, Mere (West Knoyle) for the year 1938
Associated date: 1938
height: 12.5 cm
width: 7.7 cm
Classifications:
society | money | person |
Material: card, ink
Condition: good