Brief description: book bound in red cloth with brown paper over-cover containing copies of Mere Parish Magazine (articles, illustrations and music etc.) for the year 1889, inscribed on the flyleaf, ‘Florrie Curtis with M.Snook’s best wishes, January 1891’. brown paper outer cover inscriber ‘Florence Curtis, Stourton Bath 1891’, now kept separately, with book

Associated person: Curtis, Florence, Miss

Associated date: 1891

height: 25.2 cm

width: 19.6 cm

Classifications:
society | religion | person | society | religion |
Material: paper, cloth and board, ink
Condition: outer brown cover torn at edges

Brief description: small black and white photograph of Edward Mills, 1862 – 1947, dressed as a sheep shearer wearing a smock and kerchief, with a dog on a lead, c.1930 – 40

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 8.7 cm

width: 6.3 cm

Classifications:
agriculture | sheep | person | costume | recreation | outings and holidays |
Material:
Condition: very creased,corners worn away

Brief description: black and white photograph (post card) of munitions workers at E.S. Hindley and Sons factory in Bourton,Dorset, 1914- 1918

Place: Bourton

County: Dorset

height: 8.6 cm

width: 13.5 cm

Classifications:
person | costume | arms | person

Material:
Condition: some old sellotape on reverse

Brief description: sepia photograph (post card) of Johnny Taylor in A.A. uniform, standing near an A.A. call box, inscribed ‘Yours to a cinder Johnny Taylor’, 1923

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 13.8 cm

width: 8.8 cm

Classifications:
transport | road | person | transport | road |
Material:
Condition: some old sellotape on reverse

Brief description: black and white photograph of Mere from Castle Hill, looking south, early 20th century

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 15.2 cm

width: 18.6 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: fair

Brief description: black and white photograph of Boar St.,Mere, taken by Frederick Holmes of Mere, c.1910

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 8.9 cm

width: 14.0 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | environment |
Material:
Condition: fading to brown, curling at side edges

Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of Pat Doddington and Evelyn Deverill dressed as nurses with Chriss Deverill in a pram [another unidentified entry in the background], in an entry entitled ‘Blood Donors Appeal, Mere Carnival, 1953.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 10.4 cm

width: 14.5 cm

Classifications:
person | events |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph the Guides float at the Mere Carnival, 1955.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 9.4 cm

width: 14.2 cm

Classifications:
events |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of the Guides float, preceded by Ann Gatehouse, Evelyn Deverill and Dorothy Burfitt, at the Mere Carnival, 1955.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 9.4 cm

width: 14.2 cm

Classifications:
person | events |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of seven Mere guides at the wedding of John and Jean Butler, 20th April, 1957

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 11.4 cm

width: 15.6 cm

Classifications:
events | societies | person

Material:
Condition: good