Brief description: picture post card, St Michael’s Church, Compton, Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, for use in Mere Library exhibition ‘Famous People of Mere’
County: Wiltshire
Associated date: 1993
height: 10.5cm
width: 14cm
Classifications:
society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: bottle, brown glass, labelled with stopper for Hankinson’s new cure for scour in cattle, calves and pigs, early 20 cen [?]
Associated person: Hankinson
height: 21cm
width: 8cm
Classifications:
trade | vet | agriculture |
Material: glass
Condition: fair
Brief description: spring scales for weighing letters [includes cap], late 19 cen [?]
height: 10cm
width: 1cm
Classifications:
technology | measures | society | communication |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: Pigot and Co’s National Commercial Directory, 1830
height: 25cm
width: 15cm
Classifications:
trade |
Material:
Condition: bindings broken, back cover missing, pages tattered
Brief description: two slide rules used by timber merchant to assess volume of cut timber
height: 4cm
width: 63cm
Classifications:
technology | measures | trade | timber merchant |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: two slide rules used by timber merchant to assess volume of cut timber
height: 5cm
width: 32cm
Classifications:
technology | measures | trade | timber merchant |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: glass bottle, with broken cork, labelled, Edward’s Harlene for the Hair [dressing], found in attic during house renovating
height: 13.5cm
width: 4x3cm
Classifications:
trade | hairdresser | domestic |
Material: glass
Condition: damaged cork and label
Brief description: Mere road sign, cast in metal with cat’s eyes set into the lettering, black lettering on white background, two brackets fixed to the back, now redundant
height: 26.5cm
width: 78cm
Classifications:
transport | road |
Material:
Condition: peeling paint, some cats eyes missing
Brief description: newspaper, last edition of ‘Evening News’, dated 31.10.80
height: 40cm
width: 30cm
Classifications:
society | communication |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: bill head, for Drs Whitby and Hart, Dewes House, Mere, [c] 1938
height: 17cm
width: 10cm
Classifications:
society | health |
Material:
Condition: good