Brief description: photograph of harvesting at Wood Farm, Mere, c.1974

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

height: 8.8 cm

width: 12.5 cm

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

Brief description: Poster, black ink on buff paper, issued by the Burial Authority for the parish of Mere, giving details of the fees due for interments, monuments, gravestones, tablets and searches in Register Books, agreed under Section 34 of the Burial Act 1852 by Mere Parish Council on September 23rd 1963.

Associated date: 23.9.1963

height: 50 cm

width: 38 cm

Classifications:
society | customs | society | money |
Material: printed paper
Condition: some rust marks at corners from paper clips – removed

Brief description: Three letters and two receipts issued to Mrs. Gertrude Senior relating to the redemption of the Queen Anne’s Bounty tithe charge relating to lands numbered 366 in the Parish of Mere, April to September 1930, in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Senior

height: 9.5 cm (envelope)

width: 22 cm (envelope)

Classifications:
society | money |
Material: paper, ink
Condition: good, some foxing, folded in an envelope

Brief description: small advertising notice printed in red and black on cream paper, issued by Charnage Lime Works, advocating the use of carbonate of lime in conjunction with fertilizers, c.1950

height: 23 cm

width: 14 cm

Classifications:
agriculture | cultivation | trade | quarryman |
Material: paper, red and black printing ink
Condition: good, torn at folds

Brief description: two scrap books compiled by John Rutter and John Farley Rutter during the 19th century containing documents relating to life in Mere during that period. Acquired from the Rutter family and contents removed (2020) from scrapbooks and catalogued as separate items: 2005.73-1 etc and 2005.73-2 etc

Associated person: Rutter, John Farley

Associated date: 1800

height: 45 cm

width: 30 cm

Classifications:
society | customs | society | society | education |
Material: cardboard, paper
Condition: fairly good, worn

Brief description: pamphlet consisting of 4 pages containing the printed Church and Parochial Accounts for Zeals, Wilts, Easter 1873 (Photograph(s) not available online)

height: 18.6cm

width: 11.8cm

Classifications:
society | money | society | society | religion |
Material: paper
Condition: fair

Brief description: a pair of spectacles with round frames made of bone and with copper ear-pieces, in a two-part leather case; early 20th century

height: 13 cm

depth: 3 cm

Classifications:
person | accessory |
Material: glass, bone, copper, leather
Condition: excellent

Brief description: an unused book of tear-off postcard order forms, with carbon paper, printed with the name of John Walton and Co, Chemists, c.1900 – 1930

Associated person: Jackson, Gordon

Associated date: 1970

height: 28.0 cm

width: 14.0 cm

Classifications:
trade | chemist |
Material: perforated and printed card, carbon paper
Condition: excellent

Brief description: hinged 5/8 inch black round point steel razor engraved ‘brandground Sheffield Eng’, with plastic handle, in two-part brown and red cardboard case which has labels affixed; KROPP RAZOR and ‘made and ground in Sheffield’ [outside] and 2 directions-for-use labels in red on the inner case. c.1900 – 1940

height: 16.5 cm

width: 3 cm

Classifications:
person | accessory |
Material: steel,plastic, cardboard, paper
Condition: good; cardboard case worn

Brief description: strip of thick hide lined with heavy woven fabric attached in part by means of a brass stud, with stiched and shaped handle at one end and thick cord loops at the other, fixed by means of an iron nut and bolt with washer; c.1900 – 1940

height: 505 cm

width: cm

Classifications:
person | accessory |
Material: leather, cloth, cord, thread, iron
Condition: fair; cloth lining detaching; very worn, iron nut and bolt rusting