Brief description: framed copper engraving by G. Hollis [after P. Crocker] of Zeals Manor House, 1822
Place: Zeals
County: Wiltshire
Associated person: Crocker, P. Mr
height: 18 cm
width: 21.9 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | fine art |
Material:
Condition: good, dirty
Brief description: small glass ridged poison bottle [empty] with white screw cap printed with ‘DEC’, formerly containing Decolourised Tincture of Iodine, sold by John Walton and Co. Ltd, of Mere, whose label is on the bottle; c.1934.
Associated person: Walton, John, Mr
height: 9.4 cm
width: 4 cm
Classifications:
trade | chemist | person | society | health |
Material: glass, plastic, paper, ink
Condition: good; label stained, inside of bottle contains dry remains of iodine
Brief description: French reading and grammar book, cloth bound with pictorial cover, used by members of the Walton and Lander families; published 1896
height: 18.5 cm
width: 12.9 cm
Classifications:
Material:
Condition:
Brief description: cotton oblong scarf woven in fine white cotton, with drawn thread hem and embroidered with a red cross [a red cross nurse’s cap], worn by the donor’s mother during the 1939-45 war; initials MK, presumably those of the owner, embroidered on the inside above the red cross.
Associated person: K. M. Miss
height: 47.5 cm
width: 67.4 cm
Classifications:
society | health | clothing | arms
Material: woven cotten, silk thread
Condition: fair: discoloured , foxing, with some holes (wear) and a repaired fray at one edge.
Brief description: coloured photograph of timber framed houses under construction on Pease Hill, Mere, June 1 2007
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.2 cm
width: 15.1 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | transport | road |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of a timber framed house under construction on Pease Hill, Mere, June 1 2007
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.2 cm
width: 15.1 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of timber framed houses under construction on Pease Hill, Mere, June 1 2007
County: Wiltshire
height: 10.2 cm
width: 15.1 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | transport | road |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: small fabric label, once stitched to a blanket, stamped with ‘Dormy’and the wartime economy mark, together with ‘4’ and ‘spec 2’ in brown, c.1940- 1945
height: 6.4 cm
width: 3.6 cm
Classifications:
trade | furnisher | domestic |
Material: fabric, remains of cotton sewing thread
Condition: fair: slightly torn from stitching, faded from washing
Brief description: coloured photograph of a sheet with ten drawings of Mere churches, made by Dr. Colin Anderson for Mere Churches Together in Mere and district, 2006.
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 14.8 m
width: 21 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | environment | society | religion |
Material:
Condition: excellent
Brief description: white china plate with blue rim and centre decoration consisting of a swan in water with reeds and ‘mere’ inscribed against them, framed with the inscription; The Swan Coffee House, used at a coffee house of that name in Salisbury St., Mere; maker’s name impressed and trademark also stamped on underside, late 19th century
Associated person: Rutter, John Farley, Mr
Associated date: 1880
diameter: 24.4 cm
depth: 2.6 cm
Classifications:
domestic | table | societies | temperance |
Material: china
Condition: good; chipped, worn
