Brief description: photocopy, [colour] portion of Duchy of Cornwall Survey Map, 1798-1799 original copy lent by Mrs H Willoughby, Mere, Wiltshire
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
width: 42cm
height: 30cm
Classifications:
environment | maps |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: postcard, Church Street, Mere, Wiltshire, c1950
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
width: 14cm
height: 9cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: photocopy, photograph in the book ‘Mere, A Wiltshire Country Town’ published 1975, showing children of the Duchy Manor School, running in a Pancake Race on Shrove Tuesday, Mere, Wiltshire, 1974
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
width: 21cm
height: 13.5cm
Classifications:
society | education | events |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: programme, play ‘The Blue Goose’, given in the Victoria Hall, Mere, Wiltshire, c1945
width: 13cm
height: 19cm
Classifications:
society | communication | recreation | theatre |
Material: paper
Condition: good
Brief description: paper bag, John Walton and Co, Mere, showing picture of Stourton Tower, Mere, Wiltshire, early 20cen
Associated person: Walton, John, and Co
Associated date: 1900
width: 45cm
height: 43cm
Classifications:
trade | garage |
Material: paper
Condition: creased and torn
Brief description: photograph, start of housing development on the allotments site in White Road, Mere, Wiltshire, Nov 1999
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
width: 15cm
height: 10cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: bottle, stoneware probably made by Price of Bristol in the last quarter of the 19th century, use unknown possibly container for furniture cream, adhesive or blacking, large qty of these unsed bottles were discoverd under the floor of a garden shed, The Old Rectory, Mere, Wiltshire, March 1999
Associated date: 1825
width: 5cm
length: 8cm
Classifications:
domestic | housecraft |
Material: pottery stoneware
Condition: good
Brief description: wooden poor box with painted lettering ‘for the poor and needy’, from St Michael’s Church, Mere, Wiltshire, 19th century
Associated date: 1801
width: 31cm
height: 41cm
Classifications:
society | religion | society | money |
Material: paint wood
Condition: beading and decoration missing
Brief description: calendar, Commorative ‘Coronation Calendar, prepared for King Edward VIII’s Coronation which never took place, a small ‘purse’ calendar with gilded cover, c1937
Associated person: Edward VIII
width: 6cm
height: 75cm
Classifications:
events |
Material: paper
Condition: good
Brief description: sepia photograph (copy) showing Frederick W. M. Bristow and wife Joan, daughter Dorothy and son Frederick George, outside Rose Cottage, The Fields, Mere, with three soldiers [Royal Field Artillery] billeted with them, Mere, Wiltshire, c 1915e
County: Wiltshire
width: 19cm
height: 12cm
Classifications:
personalia | arms |
Material:
Condition: good