MEREM:2009.11
Brief description: large printed booklet with blue cover, containing the particulars of the sale at The Phoenix Hotel, Gillingham,Dorset, of 2065 acres of Freehold Estate with maps of the lots at West Knoyle and at Barrow Street Farm, Tuesday December 3rd 1912 Classifications: events / trade / auctioneer Identifications: Auction Sale particulars / Place: Measurements: […]
MEREM:2009.12
Brief description: two 6 inch Ordnance Survey maps: of Semley and of the Wardour Estate, marked in red crayon, with a typed list of rated properties on the Wardour Estate, datable between 1962 (map) and1972? (decimalisation). Classifications: environment / maps Identifications: Estate Maps / Place: Measurements: height 67 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: probably complete […]
MEREM:2009.13
Brief description: a map of a portion of the Zeals Estate in Wiltshire and Dorset, reproduced with colour from the Ordnance Survey map, prepared for the sale and auction of this estate by Rawlence and Squarey,1962 Classifications: environment / maps / events Identifications: Estate Map / Place: Measurements: height 80 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: […]
MEREM:2009.14
Brief description: section of an Ordnance Survey Map of 1923 showing the parish boundaries of Stourton, Wiltshire and proposed boundary changes – small area transferred to Somerset. Classifications: environment / maps Identifications: Ordnance Survey Map / Place: Measurements: height 57 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: probably complete
MEREM:2008.112
Brief description: 8-page booklet in a grey paper cover, containing an appreiation of the life and work of Alice May Riddy byfamily and friends, 1901= 1961 with a black and white photograph of Mr and Mrs Riddy, c.1961 Classifications: person Identifications: booklet / Place: Measurements: height 20.2 cm Material: paper, ink, metal staple Completeness: complete
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:2008.88.6.1
Brief description: small printed sheet, the proof of a notice listing the Managers’ attendance at Mere Penny Bank on Saturday evenings, 1897- 1899 Classifications: society / money / person Identifications: leaflet / Place: Measurements: height 19.6 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: complete
MEREM:2008.88.7
Brief description: receipt bearing a postage stamp of George V (2 pence), issued to Thomas Standerwick and Francis Burchett Rutter from The Dorset, Somerset and Wilts Investment Society Ltd,of Wincanton, for the sum of £23.10.6, signed by Clarence Rutter and countersigned by W. H. Benjafield, dated 1st January 1922. The reverse bears a second George […]
MEREM:2008.90
Brief description: small printed card for the allotment of pew sittings in the Congregational Church, Mere, printed before 1894 Classifications: society / religion Identifications: card / Place: Measurements: height 9.5 cm Material: card, ink Completeness: complete
MEREM:2008.92
Brief description: a calendar for 1949 (most date sheets removed from recto) printed for John Walton & Co of Mere, with a picture in black and white of Stourton Tower (Alfred’s Tower) with a brief history of the tower; a complete calendar for 1949 is printed on the reverse with a JW monograph and list […]