Brief description: newspaper cutting with description of a Christmas card, depicting their victories, designed and sent home by men of the 43rd ~Wessex Division , c.1950
height: 13 cm
width: 5 cm
Classifications:
event |
Material: paper
Condition: fair
Brief description: printed envelope commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day (‘Operation Overlord’), with a coloured photograph of Bernard Howell of Mere (2014) and a black and white photograph of Bernard Howell as a young man in his naval uniform, signed by him.
Associated date: 1939
height: 17.8 cm
width: 25.4 cm
Classifications:
personalia | events | warfare and defence
Material: paper
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of a steeple jack climbing one of the pinnacles of the tower of St. MIchael’s Church, Mere, to inspect damage after the ‘St. Jude’s Storm’, December 2013
Place: Mere
height: 10.2 cm
width: 15.0 cm
Classifications:
trade & steeplejack |
Material: photographic material
Condition:
Brief description: framed, hand-tinted engraving of the Market Place, Mere by S. J. Lander after Joseph Lander, mid 19th century
Associated date: 1840
height: 22.6 cm
width: 26.5 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material: card paper ink
Condition: fair
Brief description: pewter plaque in cardboard box, with raised poppy and leaves; below ‘lest we forget’ engraved. Verses by Laurence Binyon and John Maxwell Edmonds engraved on reverse.
Associated date: 1939
height: 8.6 cm
width: 7.6 cm
Classifications:
arms | personalia |
Material: synthetic pewter
Condition: good
Brief description: sepia photograph of Charles Maggs Jupe, (1806 – 1883), sik throwster of Mere, c.1836 – 1846
height: 16.7 cm
width: 10.7 cm
Classifications:
personalia | trade |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of Lady Ebbisham and Mrs Trussler at the cake stall at the Fives Court Autumn Fair, c.2011
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 15.1 cm
width: 22.8 cm
Classifications:
personalia | events |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of Arthur Maidment in his wheelwright’s workshop, Burton, Mere, Wilts, late 20th century
Place: Burton
County: Wiltshire
height: 27.1 cm
width: 40.5 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black and white photograph of a cottage at Burton, Mere, Wilts, late 20th century
Place: Burton
County: Wiltshire
height: 12.7 cm
width: 17.7 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black and white photograph mounted in black and brown, gilt-edged card, of The Clock Tower and War Memorial, The Square, Mere, second half 20th century
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 25.3 cm
width: 20.2 cm
Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material:
Condition: good
