Brief description: copy of an inscription ‘for Stella’ by Mrs Gray on the reverse of a sepia photograph of Mrs James Gray, daughter of Mary Down (see note) of Steep St., Mere, which was enclosed in a letter to Mary Down (MEREM:2008.73) of Mrs Gray with members of her family in Colorado, U.S.A., c.1889
height: 11.2 cm
width: 13.9 cm
Classifications:
agriculture | person |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of Mrs Charlotte Avery with her daughter Bessie Mills (wife of Ernest Mills) and her granddaughter Stella (at the upstairs window) at Mrs Avery’s cottage in Steep St., Mere, c.1920
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 14.5 cm
width: 9.4 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | person |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: copy of hand-coloured sepia studio photograph of Levi Down, husband of Mary Down, in military uniform, inscribed on the reverse, ‘Uncle Levi Down’ c,1890
Associated person: Down, Mary, Mrs
height: 11.2 cm
width: 7.6 cm
Classifications:
arms | person |
Material:
Condition: fair
Brief description: small brown paper bag from E. Mills, Grocer and General Provision Dealer of Castle St. Mere, with a picture in black of a man on horseback carrying an advertisement, c.1910 -1914
Associated person: Mills, Ernest, Mr
height: 20 cm
width: 13 cm
Classifications:
trade | confectioner | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: fair
Brief description: copy of a mounted photograph of Samuel Mills,a carter of Mere and Zeals, with a horse and cart,c.1865
Associated person: Mills, Ernest, Mr
height: 11 cm
width: 17 cm
Classifications:
transport | road | trade | vehicles | person
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: copy of the reverse of copy of a mounted photograph of Samuel Mills, a carter of Mere and Zeals, with a horse and cart,c.1865
Associated person: Mills, Samuel, Mr
height: 11 cm
width: 17 cm
Classifications:
trade | photographer |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: postcard photograph by Frederick Holmes of Mere of people in The Square in Mere, c.1918
height: 8.9 cm
width: 13.8 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | person | environment
Material:
Condition: fair
Brief description: laminated copy of a discoloured black and white cartoon from a ?contemporary newspaper, of a wounded soldier on a WW1 battlefield, holding a laurel wreath labelled ‘Victory and Peace in Europe’, with the caption ‘Here you are – don’t lose it again’.
height: 29.5 cm
width: 21 cm
Classifications:
recreation | arms |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: balance made of wood (base) and brass, with 6 brass weights, for determining postal tariffs, used in Mere Post Office during the 20th century
height: 26.5 cm
width: 25.7 cm
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Material:
Condition:
Brief description: picture postcard made by Frederick Holmes of the Talbot Inn in The Square, Mere, with the Mere to Gillingham horse-bus approaching, driven by Ernest Mills of Mere c.1905
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Norris, T. J., Mr
height: 8.8 cm
width: 13.9 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | transport | road | trade | innkeeper |
Material:
Condition: fair