MEREM:2007.18.3
Brief description: coloured photograph of timber framed houses under construction on Pease Hill, Mere, June 1 2007 Classifications: environment / buildings / transport / road Identifications: photograph Place: Measurements: height 10.2 cm
MEREM:2007.19
Brief description: small fabric label, once stitched to a blanket, stamped with ‘Dormy’and the wartime economy mark, together with ‘4’ and ‘spec 2’ in brown, c.1940- 1945 Classifications: trade / furnisher / domestic Identifications: label / blanket label Measurements: height 6.4 cm Material: fabric, remains of cotton sewing thread Completeness: complete
MEREM:2007.20
Brief description: white china plate with blue rim and centre decoration consisting of a swan in water with reeds and ‘mere’ inscribed against them, framed with the inscription; The Swan Coffee House, used at a coffee house of that name in Salisbury St., Mere; maker’s name impressed and trademark also stamped on underside, late 19th […]
MEREM:2007.17
Brief description: cotton oblong scarf woven in fine white cotton, with drawn thread hem and embroidered with a red cross [a red cross nurse’s cap], worn by the donor’s mother during the 1939-45 war; initials MK, presumably those of the owner, embroidered on the inside above the red cross. Classifications: clothing / society / health […]
MEREM:2007.14
Brief description: framed copper engraving by G. Hollis [after P. Crocker] of Zeals Manor House, 1822 Classifications: environment / buildings / fine art Identifications: copper engraving Measurements: height 18 cm
MEREM:2007.15
Brief description: small glass ridged poison bottle [empty] with white screw cap printed with ‘DEC’, formerly containing Decolourised Tincture of Iodine, sold by John Walton and Co. Ltd, of Mere, whose label is on the bottle; c.1934. Classifications: trade / chemist / person Identifications: bottle / iodine bottle Measurements: height 9.4 cm Material: glass, plastic, […]
MEREM:2007.13
Brief description: framed black and white photograph of a painting by William Barnes, Dorset poet and schoolmaster, resident in Mere for a time, of The Chantry, Mere. Classifications: environment / buildings / person Identifications: photograph Measurements: height 22.1 cm Additional images: Click the images to view larger image
MEREM:2007.11
Brief description: square wooden box fixed to a long,broad handle with holes drilled for hanging it up when not in use, used for collecting alms in Mere Parish Church, 20th century Classifications: society / money / society / religion Identifications: collecting box / alms collecting box Place: Measurements: height 6.3 cm Material: wood Completeness: complete
MEREM:2007.12
Brief description: coloured printed map of roads in Dorset and its borders, including Wiltshire [+ Mere], formerly two pages in a book entitled ‘New Travellers’ Companion’, marked with the distances between towns and villages and Hyde Park Corner, London, number 6 in a series, published by R. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, 1806 Classifications: environment / […]
MEREM:2007.8
Brief description: billhead of William T. Edmunds, Grocer, of Castle St. Mere, on which is written a verse in ink, found in the wall of 24 Castle St., Mere in 1987, dated July 7 1898 Classifications: trade / grocer / personalia Identifications: billhead Place: Mere Wiltshire Measurements: height 25.8 cm Material: paper Completeness: incomplete: much […]