MEREM:2008.95
Brief description: certificate with printed crest and hand written, issued to the Civil Parish of Mere by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to commemmorate the adoption of H.M.S. ‘Kingston Agate’ during Warship Week, March 1942 Classifications: arms / World War II / society / money Identifications: certificate / Place: Measurements: height 33.2 cm Material: […]
MEREM:2008.88.3
Brief description: a printed list of rules for Mere Penny Bank (established in 1859) with the list of officials and trustees, c.1870 Classifications: society / money / person Identifications: pamphlet / Place: Measurements: height 20.5 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: paper missing (but no text)
MEREM:2008.88.1
Brief description: small booklet (a depositor’s pass book, the first printed, for Mere Penny Bank) of 4 pages with blue paper covers, officials and trustees listed inside the top cover; 1859 Classifications: society / money / person Identifications: booklet / pass book Place: Measurements: height 16.2 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: complete
MEREM:2008.88.2
Brief description: small booklet (a depositor’s pass book for Mere Penny Bank) of 8 pages with blue paper covers, officials and trustees listed inside the top cover; c.1880 Classifications: society / money / person Identifications: booklet / pass book Place: Measurements: height 16.2 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: complete
MEREM:2008.77
Brief description: small brown paper bag from E. Mills, Grocer and General Provision Dealer of Castle St. Mere, with a picture in black of a man on horseback carrying an advertisement, c.1910 -1914 Classifications: trade / confectioner / person Identifications: paper bag / sweet bag Place: Bristol Measurements: height 20 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: […]
MEREM:2008.72
Brief description: a printed certificate, completed by hand, of the vaccination of Ellen Avery at the Surgery, Church St., Mere, signed by Charles Rumsey, Public Vaccinator and by ? Norris, Registrar and dated March 1877. Classifications: society / health / person Identifications: certificate / vaccination certificate Place: Measurements: height 34.2 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: […]
MEREM:2008.73
Brief description: a handwritten letter from Mrs James Gray (daughter of Mary Down of Steep St., Mere) to her mother from Colorado, U.S.A. dated January 9th 1889 Classifications: society / communication / person Identifications: letter Place: Measurements: height 24 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: complete, but in several pieces
MEREM:2008.65
Brief description: copy of an oval stamp in red on the reverse of a photograph (MEREM:2008.26.4)with the inscription: ‘Copies can be had on application S. Baverstock’, c.1910 Classifications: trade / photographer / person Identifications: document / Place: Measurements: height 13.3 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: complete
MEREM:2008.66
Brief description: printed cardboard, part of the cover of a Wiltshire Education Committee Register of Daily Attendances at Mere Church of England School, Infant department, 1 May 1909 – 30 April 1910 Classifications: society / education / society / religion Identifications: book cover / cover of an attendance register Place: Measurements: height 30.4 cm Material: […]
MEREM:2008.68
Brief description: small rent book with green cover for The Cottage, Steep St., Mere, used first by Mary Down and later by her daughter, Charlotte Avery,1881 – 1918. the book contains penny stamps,1896 – 1910 Classifications: society / money / society / communication Identifications: rent book / stamps Place: London Measurements: height 16 cm Material: […]