MEREM:2010.74.1

Brief description: small geography textbook bound in brown paper, dated 1891 Classifications: society / education Identifications: textbook / Place: Paternoster Row Measurements: height 16.6cm Material: paper, thread Completeness: complete

MEREM:2010.74.2

Brief description: small geography textbook bound in green paper, stamped with the date 1905 and Country Borough of Bournemouth Education Committee Classifications: society / education Identifications: textbook / Place: Paternoster Row Measurements: height 16.9cm Material: paper, thread Completeness: complete

MEREM:2010.74.3

Brief description: small geography textbook bound in brown paper, c.1890 Classifications: society / education Identifications: textbook / Place: Paternoster Row Measurements: height 16.6cm Material: paper, thread Completeness: complete

MEREM:2010.74.4

Brief description: small geography textbook bound in brown paper, c.1910 Classifications: society / education Identifications: textbook / Place: Measurements: height 18.1cm Material: paper, thread Completeness: complete

MEREM:2010.74.5

Brief description: used handwriting textbook bound in brown paper, c.1890 Classifications: society / education Identifications: textbook / Place: Minerva House Measurements: height 17.1cm Material: paper, thread Completeness: complete

MEREM:2008.106

Brief description: linen panel, machine-edged, with cross-stitch pattern transfer with images of Windsor Castle and a coat of arms, and an inscription celebrating the accession to the throne of Edward VIII, 1906, only partially stitched, probably by Jessie Maidment as a girl, 1937 Classifications: domestic / fine art Identifications: sampler / Place: Measurements: height 43 […]

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: […]

MEREM:2008.50.1

Brief description: paper-bound book of about 220 pages published by John Walton & Co of Mere listing and illustrating items for sale with their prices, 1907-1908 Classifications: trade / person Identifications: book / price book Place: Measurements: height 20.2 cm Material: paper, glue, thread Completeness: last pages partially lost Additional images: Click the images to […]

MEREM:2007.31

Brief description: a white linen cloth with white decorative embroidery and also an embroidered inscription in white; Mere Cong Ch’, used as an altar cloth, date uknown, ca. 1900? Classifications: society / religion / domestic craft / embroidery Identifications: cloth / altar cloth Place: Measurements: length 152 cm Material: linen, thread Completeness: complete

MEREM:2006.72

Brief description: a pair of brown leather blinkers, part of a carthorse harness, stitched with white cord and decorated with a pattern made with small stiches, each with a chain attached and teminating in a metal hook and ring. Each blinker bears a small brass plate inscribed with a monogram: I [or J] A B. […]