Brief description: black and white photograph of the interior of St. Matthew’s Church, Wet Lane, Mere, looking east, with many floral decorations, late 20th century
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Tovery, Frederick, Mr
height: 16.3 cm
width: 21.4 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black and white photograph of the sanctuary of St. Matthew’s Church, Wet Lane, Mere, with floral decorations, late 20th century
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Tovery, Frederick, Mr
height: 16.3 cm
width: 21.4 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: four-page typescript of the order of service for the celebration of the centenery of the opening of St. Matthew’s Church, Mere, with a reproduction of a drawing of the church by Peter Habgood on the cover, September 21st 1982
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 21 cm
width: 15 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | society | religion | events
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: A Book of Common Prayer used at St. Matthew’s Church, Mere, its front cover stamped and gilded with a cross and the words; St. Matthew’s Church, Mere, date unknown, perhaps 1882, the year of the founding of the church
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Tovery, Frederick, Mr
height: 22.2 cm
width: 14 cm
Classifications:
society | religion | events |
Material:
Condition: poor – much used: cover completely detached, sewing breaking down, pages loose, page edges torn
Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of the former post office and newsagent, the Square, Mere, owned by John Walton + Co., c.1960
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Todd, Peter, Mr
height: 20.3 cm
width: 13.5 cm
Classifications:
society | communication | trade | environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of a house in Castle St., Mere,adjoining The Butt of Sherry, which may have been the first post office in Mere, August 2007
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 14.9 cm
width: 19.7 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | society | communication |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: photograph album [cover inscribed ‘Rosemary That’s for Remembrance’], once belonging to Capt. Fred Howarth, officer in charge of the Mere Detachment, Army Cadet Force, containing black and white photographs of people and events connected with the Mere Army Cadet Force, newspaper reports and photographs and other military memorabilia, c. 1950 – 1962. Some personal items at the back of the album
height: 32.6 cm
width: 28.5 cm
Classifications:
personalia | arms | events
Material: paper, cloth, photographic paper, newsprint
Condition: quite good,cover worn; album is re-used and has remains of old contents on most leaves
Brief description: colour photograph of Robert Nurden, Butcher, in his shop on Church St, Mere, with a customer [the egg supplier] on the final day of trading before final closure, November 2007
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 11 cm
width: 15 cm
Classifications:
trade | butcher | person |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of Pease Hill, Mere taken from the south, site of a housing development, February19th 2007
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.5 cm
width: 13.5 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | environment |
Material:
Condition: excellent
Brief description: coloured photograph, taken from Downside Close, Mere, of a digger and lorry beginning work on a housing development at Pease Hill, February 2 2007
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.5 cm
width: 13.5 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | environment | transport | road |
Material:
Condition: excellent