Brief description: photograph [colour] by Colin Anderson, new reservoir under construction for Wessex Water, Mere, Wiltshire, Nov 1996
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10cm
width: 15cm
Classifications:
society | water |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: photograph, six members of Mere Oxfam group at the first Oxfam Shop held in Mere c1970, Mere, Wiltshire
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 16.5cm
width: 21cm
Classifications:
societies |
Material:
Condition:
Brief description: postcard, [copy] ‘Castle Hill’ showing Castle Hill approach with 5 boys and 2 adults posed at and near to the entrance, [entrance piers engraved V.R. on one side, 1897 on other] photographer F Holmes, c1900
County: Wiltshire
height: 10cm
width: 16cm
Classifications:
environment |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: part large brown paper bag, John Walton and Co Ltd, Mere, with picture of Stourton [Alfred’s] Tower, Mere, Wiltshire
Associated person: Walton, John and Co Ltd
height: 46cm
width: 37cm
Classifications:
trade |
Material: paper
Condition: torn, front of bag only
Brief description: tailor shears, used by tailor employed by John Walton and Co, The Square, Mere, Wiltshire
Associated person: Walton, John and Co Ltd
width: 9cm
Classifications:
trade | tailor |
Material: metal
Condition: slight rust
Brief description: manuscript, written Italic Script on Cartridge Paper, mounted on board, William Barnes’s Poem, ‘To a garden – on leaving it’ hand written by Frank Jenkins, poem refers to the Chantry Garden, Mere, which William Barnes left in 1835, Mere, Wiltshire
Associated person: Jenkins, Frank, Mr
height: 40cm
width: 27cm
Classifications:
personalia |
Material: paper card
Condition: good
Brief description: photograph [colour] by Colin Anderson, new buildings at the Hill Brush Co, Mere, Wiltshire, January 1997
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 10cm
width: 15cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings | trade | brush mfr |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: typescript summary (163 foolscap pages) of Mere inclosure awards, Mere, Wiltshire c1821
height: 33cm
width: 21cm
Classifications:
Material:
Condition:
Brief description: two folded letters, one addressed Lord Clifford, Ugbrook Park, Devon, c1819 second addressed Rev Henry Wake, Overwallop, Salisbury, c1821 both with postmark Mere, letters mounted on a sheet of card, and labelled, Mere, Wiltshire
height: 26cm
width: 22cm
Classifications:
society | communication |
Material: paper
Condition: good
Brief description: broadsheet, April 6th 1823 entitled ‘Facts connected with the Vicarage of Mere in the County of Wilts’, written for the Vicar of Mere, Rev Henry Wake, printed by R Maud, Andover. The broadsheet has been folded for posting and written in ink on the back is ‘post paid, Mr Upjohn, land surveyor, Cann Cottage, Shaftesbury, single sheet May 5th’ [list of names and figures also written on the back], Mere, Wiltshire
Associated person: UpJohn, Mr
Associated date: 5.5.1823
height: 39cm
width: 24cm
Classifications:
society | religion |
Material: paper
Condition: creased
