Brief description: black and white photograph of young women who had taken part in the Maypole dancing at Dewes House, Mere, c.1951

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated date: 1950

Classifications:
events | dance |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of members of Mere Red Cross at a party in Mere, c.1950s

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated date: 1950

Classifications:
events | party |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of members of the Carnival Queen’s float at Mere Carnival, c.1950s

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated date: 1950

Classifications:
events | carnival |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of men from Mere by the side of their coach on an outing, c.1950s. Several are named.

Associated date: 1950

Classifications:
events | outing |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of elderly men and women from Mere by the side of several coaches ready for an outing, c.1960s.

Associated date: 1960

Classifications:
events | outing |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: black and white photograph of participants in an old peoples’ outing, posing in the garden of Dewes House, c.1960s.

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

Associated date: 1960

Classifications:
events | outing |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: perspex (synthetic) board with coloured map of Mere, lists of businesses and services in Mere with contact telephone numbers, and photographs of nearby historical locations, 1995

Associated date: 1995

Classifications:
trade and professions | local history | maps |
Material: synthetic
Condition: good

Brief description: family trees of the Jupe and Maggs families of Mere compiled and drawn by Dr David Longbourne for an exhibition on the Mere silk industry, 2016

Classifications:
local history | personalia | trade and professions |
Material: paper
Condition: good

Brief description: china plate decorated with inscriptions and pictures of people and buildings, commemorating the centenary of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1907.

Associated date: 1860

Classifications:
fine art | ornament | events | local history | society | religion |
Material: pottery
Condition: good

Brief description: wooden chair with ?leather seat and inscribed brass plaque, sold in The Square, Mere, on 23.9.1903, one of six, ‘being the first distraint in Mere Wilts for refusal to pay that portion of rate applied to sectarian education’, or ‘Passive Resistance to the Education Act of 1902’.

Associated date: 1903

Classifications:
domestic | furniture | events | local history |
Material: wood brass
Condition: poor