MEREM:2006.61.12

Brief description: copy of a poster advertising a mowing, reaping and harvesting competition, open only to total abstainers, with a list of prizes, to be held at Harvest time, 1866

Associated date: 1866

height: 47.5cm

width: 28 cm

Classifications:
agriculture | harvest | societies | temperance | person

Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.2

Brief description: copy of a receipt for 8 pence issued by Mere Temperance Society to George Bristow, signed by W. Edmunds, for a week’s subscription and tea, undated except for 188-. Printed notes about amounts due are on the reverse.

Associated date: 1880

height: 9.2 cm

width: 9 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.3

Brief description: copy of a receipt for 8 pence issued by Mere Temperance Society to Hugh Doddington, signed by Elizabeth B. Rutter, for a week’s subscription and tea, dated Nov. 1 1894.

Associated date: 1.11.1894

height: 8.8 cm

width: 8.2 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.4

Brief description: copy of a receipt for 8 pence issued by Mere Temperance Society to Thomas Brown, signed by Alice H. Pring, for a week’s subscription and tea, dated February 13th 1895.

Associated date: 1.11.1894

height: 8.8 cm

width: 8.2 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.5

Brief description: copy of a pledge of abstinence issued by Mere Temperance Society signed by Sarah Long, dated March 10 1899. A list of questions about the abstainer’s record, and some pencil calculations, on the reverse

Associated person: Long, Sarah

Associated date: 1.11.1894

height: 8.9 cm

width: 13.3 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.6

Brief description: copy of a pledge of abstinence issued by Mere Temperance Society signed by Margaret Topp, dated December 10 1885. A list of questions about the abstainer’s record on the reverse

Associated person: Topp, Sarah

Associated date: 1.11.1894

height: 9.5 cm

width: 13.5 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.7

Brief description: copy of a certificate of membership of the Band of Hope, not filled in

Associated date: 1880

height: 18 cm

width: 13.5 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance |
Material: paper, coloured ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.8

Brief description: copy of a receipted bill for 2pound 18s 3d issued by H.H. Edmunds of Mere to Mere Temperance Society for printing and other items, November 29th 1888

Associated person: Edmunds, H.H.

Associated date: 29.11.1888

height: 19.5 cm

width: 12.5 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person | trade | chemist |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.61.9

Brief description: copy of a receipted bill for 4 pound 8s 5d issued by M. Norris of Mere to Mere Temperance Society for cake, December 1888

Associated person: Norris, M

Associated date: 29.11.1888

height: 19.7cm

width: 12.4 cm

Classifications:
societies | temperance | person | trade | baker |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

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MEREM:2006.62

Brief description: copy of a poem in typescript about an outing with Mere Old Folks to Weymouth Regis on Midsummer Day, 1953

height: 29.5 cm

width: 21.2cm

Classifications:
recreation | holiday |
Material: paper, printing ink
Condition: good

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