MEREM:2007.26.1

Brief description: coloured photograph of the disused clock mechanism in the tower of the Parish Church, Mere, made by the Mere clockmaker Kingston Avery in the 18th-century, August 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated person: Avery, Kingston, Mr

height: 15 cm

width: 10.3 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker | person | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2007.26.2

Brief description: coloured photograph of a second disused clock mechanism in the tower of the Parish Church, Mere, August 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 15 cm

width: 10.3 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2007.26.3

Brief description: coloured photograph of the chiming mechanism in the tower of the Parish Church, Mere, August 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 15 cm

width: 10.3 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2007.26.4

Brief description: coloured photograph of one of the bells in the tower of the Parish Church, Mere, August 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 15 cm

width: 10.3 cm

Classifications:
trade | clockmaker | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2007.26.5

Brief description: coloured photograph of a stepped passage leading down from the clock chamber to ?the nave roof in the tower of the Parish Church, Mere, August 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 15 cm

width: 10.3 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2007.27.1

Brief description: coloured photograph of the re-gilding of the dial of the clock on the tower of Mere Parish Church, October 2007

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 15.2 cm

width: 10.2 cm

Classifications:
society | religion | trade | clockmaker |
Material:
Condition: good

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MEREM:2007.10

Brief description: printed service sheet for an Armistice Day service held in the Parish Church Mere on Armistice Sunday, November 7th 1926.

height: 24.5 cm

width: 15.6 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | arms | society | religion |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: fair; creased and slightly torn,dirty

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MEREM:2007.11

Brief description: square wooden box fixed to a long,broad handle with holes drilled for hanging it up when not in use, used for collecting alms in Mere Parish Church, 20th century

height: 6.3 cm

width: 12.1 cm

Classifications:
society | money | society | religion |
Material: wood
Condition:

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MEREM:2007.12

Brief description: coloured printed map of roads in Dorset and its borders, including Wiltshire [+ Mere], formerly two pages in a book entitled ‘New Travellers’ Companion’, marked with the distances between towns and villages and Hyde Park Corner, London, number 6 in a series, published by R. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, 1806

Associated date: 1806

height: 32 cm

width: cm26.6

Classifications:
environment | maps | transport | road |
Material: paper, ink, paste
Condition: ?acid free?

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MEREM:2007.13

Brief description: framed black and white photograph of a painting by William Barnes, Dorset poet and schoolmaster, resident in Mere for a time, of The Chantry, Mere.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated person: Barnes, William, Mr

height: 22.1 cm

width: 30.9 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | person | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good, some blackfly trapped under the glass

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