Brief description: sepia photograph of a cart (horse-drawn) used by Walton & Co Ltd.’s antique furniture department, in Angel Lane outside ?the warehouse, late 19th century
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 11.3 cm
width: 17.5 cm
Classifications:
transport | road | trade | environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black and white photograph of a float on the theme of ‘Britannia’ entered by John Walton and Co which won the Challenge Cup Award in Mere Carnival, 1971.
height: 16.8 cm
width: 21.6 cm
Classifications:
trade | events |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black and white photograph of a float on the theme of ‘Britannia’ entered by John Walton and Co which won the Challenge Cup Award in Mere Carnival, 1971.
height: 16.8 cm
width: 21.6 cm
Classifications:
trade | events |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black and white photograph of a float on the theme of Treasure Trove entered by John Walton and Co in the Mere Carnival, 1971.
height: 16.8 cm
width: 21.6 cm
Classifications:
trade | events |
Material:
Condition: poor
Brief description: coloured photograph of a float on the theme of The British Isles, entered by John Walton and Co in Mere Carnival, 1971.
height: 12.6 cm
width: 12.5 cm
Classifications:
trade | events |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: certificate Mere Annual Carnival second prize for Walton’s Van 1967
height: 16 cm
width: 21 cm
Classifications:
trade | events |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: oval black and white photograph mounted on cardboard, of John Walton, shopkeeper of Mere, formerly framed, c.1900
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 40.7 cm
width: 30.1 cm
Classifications:
trade | grocer | person |
Material:
Condition: remains of former framing materials, probably some form of paste, adhering to mount
Brief description: black and white photograph, taken from above, of the former Mere Union (workhouse) used by John Walton and Co as a furniture store and as a laundry between 1932 and the 1960s, folded and marked for reproduction and headed ‘Depository and West End Laundry’, c.1940.
height: 16.5 cm
width: 21.4 cm
Classifications:
society | social services | environment | buildings | trade | laundry |
Material:
Condition: a deep fold across the upper part of the photo, an ink line across the lower part, some wear at the edges
Brief description: black and white photograph of a donkey cart belonging to G. Bristow of The Fields, Mere, with Fred Bristow in the cart and Jerome Gatehouse standing, outside the Post Office in The Square, Mere, c.1914
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 12.5 cm
width: 20.1 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | trade |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: copy of the London Times newspaper for Tuesday July 31 1906
Associated person: Walton, John, Mr
height: 59.6 cm
width: 46 cm
Classifications:
society | communication | personalia |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: yellowing,edges torn