Brief description: coloured photograph, taken from Old Hollow, Mere, of a digger and lorries 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
Brief description: enlarged photocopy of a leaflet or card produced for the Temperance movement [Band of Hope] showing people holding banners with temperance and related slogans marching towards the personnification of Temperance who stands by a water fountain, c.1850
height: 21 cm
width: 29.7 cm
Classifications:
societies | temperance |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good
Brief description: enlarged photocopy of a Belgian reproduction of a leaflet or card produced for the English Temperance movement showing people holding banners with temperance and related slogans marching towards the personnification of Temperance who stands by a water fountain, c.1890
Associated person: Ludbrook, Walter, Mr
Associated date: 1845
height: 21 cm
width: 29.7 cm
Classifications:
societies | temperance |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good
Brief description: billhead of William T. Edmunds, Grocer, of Castle St. Mere, on which is written a verse in ink, found in the wall of 24 Castle St., Mere in 1987, dated July 7 1898
Associated person: Edminds, William T. Mr
Associated date: 1898
height: 25.8 cm
width: 20.6 cm
Classifications:
trade | grocer | personalia | environment | buildings |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: poor
Brief description: a printed envelope for billheads sent by William T. Edmunds, Grocer, of Castle St. Mere, with an advertisement for a toothache and neuralgia remedy on which is written in ink ‘To he who would have the pleasure of pulling down my house’, found in the wall of 24 Castle St., Mere in 1987, datable to July 7 1898 [see MEREM 2007.8]
Associated person: Edmunds, William T. Mr
Associated date: 1898
height: 7.9 cm
width: 13.6 cm
Classifications:
trade | grocer | personalia | environment | buildings |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: fair: stained, torn at edges, some paper loss(eaten?) atback
Brief description: coloured photograph of a house in The Square, Mere, currently empty, once the home and offices of John Walton, Mere shopkeeper in the19th and early 20th centuries, January 2008
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Walton, John, Mr
height: 10.7 cm
width: 15 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | trade | grocer | person
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: receipted bill issued by H. J. Deverill + Son of Mere to Mere Parish Council for repairs to skittle boards at Mere Recreation Ground, September 11th 1944
Associated person: Deverill, H. J., Mr
Associated date: 11.9.1944
height: 17 cm
width: 20.4 cm
Classifications:
trade | carpenter | person | society | government |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: fair: dirty, folded and slightly torn at ends of folds
Brief description: sepia photograph mounted in a buff card mount with hinged cover, of Dr. F. B. Rutter and his family in the garden at Dewes House, Mere, taken by Frederick Holmes of Mere, at an Easter party,1925
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 19.5 cm
width: 27.2 cm
Classifications:
person |
Material:
Condition: fair: mount badly foxed
Brief description: black and white studio photograph mounted in a buff card mount, of Dr. F. B. Rutter of Mere, taken by Vandyke of London, in about 1925
height: 19.5 cm
width: 27.2 cm
Classifications:
person |
Material:
Condition: fair: mount badly foxed
Brief description: empty packet, white with red and black printing, once containing Black Cat Cigarettes, found in The Rutter Pavilion in the Recreation Ground, Mere; possibly dating from 1920s or 1930s.
Associated person: Rutter,
height: 7.3 cm
width: 8.5 cm
Classifications:
recreation | tobacco |
Material: cardboard, printer’s ink
Condition: good, dirty