MEREM:2008.88.4

Brief description: a folded, printed page containing a notice to the depositors in Mere Penny Bank of the closing up of all present accounts on September 1st 1888, dated 20th August 1888

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 20.6 cm

width: 12.8 cm

Classifications:
society | money |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.88.5

Brief description: a printed page listing specimens of proposed tables for Provident savings in Mere Penny Bank, c.1875 (?)

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 17.3 cm

width: 10.9 cm

Classifications:
society | money |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.88.6

Brief description: coloured photograph of The Old Rectory Cottage, Mere, south west front, 1993

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 10.1 cm

width: 13.5 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.88.6.1

Brief description: small printed sheet, the proof of a notice listing the Managers’ attendance at Mere Penny Bank on Saturday evenings, 1897- 1899

Associated date: 1897

height: 19.6 cm

width: 18 cm

Classifications:
society | money | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.88.7

Brief description: receipt bearing a postage stamp of George V (2 pence), issued to Thomas Standerwick and Francis Burchett Rutter from The Dorset, Somerset and Wilts Investment Society Ltd,of Wincanton, for the sum of £23.10.6, signed by Clarence Rutter and countersigned by W. H. Benjafield, dated 1st January 1922. The reverse bears a second George V stamp and an inscription relating to the executors of Thomas Standerwick, With envelope addressed to Mere Penny Bank.

Associated date: 1.1.1922

height: 12.2 cm

width: 21.2 cm

Classifications:
society | money | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.89

Brief description: 46-page booklet (illustrated) with embossed grey covers printed in red, containing the history of the buildings of Mere’s Congregational Church and of non-conformist philosophy, 1919

height: 17.6 cm

width: 12.3 cm

Classifications:
society | religion | person | environment | buildings |
Material: paper, ink,metal staples
Condition: fair

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MEREM:2008.9.1

Brief description: coloured photograph of the disused mechanism of the 18th-century clock in the clock chamber of the tower of Mere Parish Church, made by Kingston Avery, the Mere clockmaker, c.1750

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated person: Avery, Kingston, Mr

height: 15 cm

width: 10.1 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker | environment | buildings | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.9.2

Brief description: coloured photograph of the modern, electrically controlled clock in the clock chamber of the tower of Mere Parish Church, August 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 10.1 cm

width: 15 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker | environment | buildings | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.90

Brief description: small printed card for the allotment of pew sittings in the Congregational Church, Mere, printed before 1894

height: 9.5 cm

width: 7.7 cm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material: card, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2008.91

Brief description: 16-page illustrated brochure with pink covers containing a brief history of Walton & Co., descriptions of its various stores and services, a brief account of Mere and advertisements, c.1930s

Associated person: Walton, John, Mr

Associated date: 1930

height: 18.4 cm

width: 12.8 cm

Classifications:
person | trade |
Material: paper, staples
Condition: good

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