MEREM:2009.13

Brief description: a map of a portion of the Zeals Estate in Wiltshire and Dorset, reproduced with colour from the Ordnance Survey map, prepared for the sale and auction of this estate by Rawlence and Squarey,1962

Associated person: Hitchings, R, Mr

height: 80 cm

width: 59.5 cm

Classifications:
environment | maps | events | trade | auctioneer |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.14

Brief description: section of an Ordnance Survey Map of 1923 showing the parish boundaries of Stourton, Wiltshire and proposed boundary changes – small area transferred to Somerset.

Associated person: Hitchings, R, Mr

height: 57 cm

width: 82 cm

Classifications:
environment | maps |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.15

Brief description: a 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map of 1886-7, edged with brown tape, showing Pitching Piece Barn, Chaddenwick Hill and Willoughby Hedge

Associated person: Hitchings, R, Mr

height: 70.3 cm

width: 102.2 cm

Classifications:
environment | maps |
Material: paper, ink, cotton tape, cotton
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.16

Brief description: part of a large Ordnance Survey Map (date unknown) showing Mere and Tisbury Rural District Council Comprehensive Water Supply Scheme, ?1946

Associated person: Hitchings, R, Mr

height: 119.6 cm

width: 116 cm

Classifications:
environment | maps | society | water |
Material: paper, ink,
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.17

Brief description: black and white photocopies of pages comprising the particulars relating to the auction sale of building land in Mere with plan, including buildings and a barn,sometimes known as theTithe Barn, Mere, held at The Talbot Hotel, Mere on Thursday March 31st 1887

height: 41 cm

width: 35 cm

Classifications:
environment | events | environment | buildings |
Material: paper,ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.18

Brief description: large copy of a black and white photograph taken from Castle Hill showing the old barn, possibly a Tithe Barn, on Castle St. Mere, just before demolition, 1890

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 24.6 cm

width: 40 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | agriculture |
Material:
Condition: fair

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MEREM:2009.107.12

Brief description: black and white photograph (copy) of the interior of John Walton’s cabinet-making workshop on Angel Lane, Mere first half of the twentieth century, with James Phillips, foreman and three other cabinet makers at work, c.1933; July 2009

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 10.2 cm

width: 15.2 cm

Classifications:
trade | cabinet maker | person | trade | shopkeeper |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.107.2

Brief description: black and white photograph of a fragment of an Almanak for 1849 produced by Charles Card, grocer, of Mere, once pasted to a partition in the stableyard, Stourhead House.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 21 cm

width: 27.1 cm

Classifications:
technology | time | trade | shopkeeper |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.107.3

Brief description: black and white copy of a billhead (fragment of bill issued to Mr Charles Welch and dated February 4th 1868), issued by Walton and Child, drapers and grocers etc., of Mere; copy made in July 2009.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 9.2 cm

width: 20.4 cm

Classifications:
trade | shopkeeper | person |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2009.107.4

Brief description: copy on beige paper of a bill issued to Mr Strickland of Gillingham by John Walton and Co., dated October 11 1897; July 2009

Associated person: Walton, John, Mr

height: 21 cm

width: 14 cm

Classifications:
trade | shopkeeper | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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