MEREM:2008.43.6
Brief description: oval black and white photograph mounted on cardboard, of John Walton, shopkeeper of Mere, formerly framed, c.1900 Classifications: trade / grocer / person Identifications: photograph Place: Measurements: height 40.7 cm
MEREM:2008.45
Brief description: black and white photograph of a donkey cart belonging to G. Bristow of The Fields, Mere, with Fred Bristow in the cart and Jerome Gatehouse standing, outside the Post Office in The Square, Mere, c.1914 Classifications: trade / environment / buildings Identifications: photograph Place: Measurements: height 12.5 cm
MEREM:2008.42
Brief description: paper back book with cream card cover printed in brown, produced for Finan and Co, Fine Art Consultants Auctioneers and Valuers of Mere, being a catalogue of Antiques, Pictures,Works of Art and Books to be sold by Public Auction at the Old Ship Hotel, Mere, Wiltshire on Saturday October 6th 2001 at 12 […]
MEREM:2008.39
Brief description: coloured photograph of Jean Young, Postmistress, and her family, selling newspapers from a temporary stall outside her garage in the Square, Mere, together with George Jeans, engineer and his family, on the day before George Jeans took over as Postmaster on Jean Young’s retirement, March 30th 2008. Classifications: trade / newsagent / trade […]
MEREM:2008.9.2
Brief description: coloured photograph of the modern, electrically controlled clock in the clock chamber of the tower of Mere Parish Church, August 2007 Classifications: trade / clockmaker / environment / buildings Identifications: photograph Place: Measurements: height 10.1 cm
MEREM:2008.9.1
Brief description: coloured photograph of the disused mechanism of the 18th-century clock in the clock chamber of the tower of Mere Parish Church, made by Kingston Avery, the Mere clockmaker, c.1750 Classifications: trade / clockmaker / environment / buildings Identifications: photograph Place: Measurements: height 15 cm
MEREM:2007.50
Brief description: colour photograph of Robert Nurden, Butcher, in his shop on Church St, Mere, with a customer [the egg supplier] on the final day of trading before final closure, November 2007 Classifications: trade / butcher / person Identifications: photograph Place: Mere Wiltshire Measurements: height 11 cm
MEREM:2007.48
Brief description: copy of a black and white photograph of the former post office and newsagent, the Square, Mere, owned by John Walton + Co., c.1960 Classifications: trade / society / communication Identifications: photograph Place: Measurements: height 20.3 cm
MEREM:2007.37
Brief description: receipted bill issued by H. J. Deverill + Son of Mere to Mere Parish Council for repairs to skittle boards at Mere Recreation Ground, September 11th 1944 Classifications: trade / carpenter / person Identifications: bill / receipted bill Measurements: height 17 cm Material: paper, ink Completeness: complete
MEREM:2007.41.1
Brief description: a coloured photograph of the ‘Waywiser’ [a distance measuring device] invented by William Lander, brazier, of Mere [1763 – 1843], held in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, shown as it is displayed, 13.11 2007 Classifications: trade / person Identifications: photograph Place: Salisbury Wiltshire Measurements: height 19 cm