Brief description: empty bluish-green glass bottle, stopper missing, once containing The ‘Luton’ Straw Hat Dye [colour Mole],with paper label on front and maker’s name and location embossed on the back and sides; in a green, black and orange upright box with a picture of a woman applying the dye on the front,and the maker’s name and addresses, instructions for use and a list of other available colours, printed elsewhere on the box, c.1950

height: 16.7cm

width: 5.8 cm

Classifications:
person | costume | domestic |
Material:
Condition: fair; stopper missing, top lid and one flap of box detached

Brief description: copy of the cover of a programme of events for a 17th-century Festival of Mere held in aid of Sambourne Hospital, Warminster, October 1973

Associated date: 1973

height: 21 cm

width: 29.5 cm

Classifications:
recreation | music | events | recreation | dance |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

Brief description: needlework tapestry picture in a modern gilt frame depicting Joseph bringing his father Jacob before Pharoah,copied from a painting by E. Boll made in the 19th century, worked by ‘a young girl of the Lander family’ at the age of about 13 years, 19th century

Associated person: Bristow, H. R. Mr

Associated date: 1900

height: 53 cm

width: 59 cm

Classifications:
society | religion | decorative art | textiles | domestic | ornament |
Material:
Condition:

Brief description: black and white engraving by H.B.Hall of a painting by F. Boll of Joseph bringing Jacob before Pharoah, in a grey-green mount; quotation from Genesis 47 v.7, Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharoah, printed beneath the image.

height: 26.5 cm

width: 32.5 cm

Classifications:
society | religion | fine art | prints |
Material:
Condition: good, paper dirty

Brief description: a recording on a compact disc of Linden Lea recorded on the Serpent [musical instrument] played by Phil Humphries, the words [by William Barnes] sung by Robert Tear, tenor, 2005-6

height: 12.5 cm

width: 14 cm

Classifications:
recreation | music |
Material: plastic
Condition: excellent

Brief description: printed souvenir programme,with photographs of members of the royal family and a map of the coronation route, of the order of service for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on June 2nd 1953

Associated date: 2.6.1952

height: 25 cm

width: 18 cm

Classifications:
society | royalty | person | society | communication |
Material: paper, printing ink
Condition: good, slightly worn

Brief description: souvenir issue of The Illustrated London News commemorating the lying-in-state of Sir Winston Churchill, February 6th 1965

Associated person: Churchill, Winston Sir

Associated date: 6.2.2006

height: 35.5 cm

width: 26 cm

Classifications:
society | government | person | society | communication |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good

Brief description: issue of The Daily Mirror covering the wedding that day of Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles, February 28th 1922

height: 38.5 cm

width: 30.5 cm

Classifications:
society | royalty | society | communication |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: farily good, yellowed and torn

Brief description: a sheet of two photographs [copies] of Higher Mere Park Farm House, early 20th century

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 21 cm

width: 29.5 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | agriculture |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: a sheet of three photographs [copies] of Lower Mere Park Farm House, early 20th century

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 21 cm

width: 29.5 cm

Classifications:
environment | buildings | agriculture |
Material:
Condition: good