MEREM:1995.148
Brief description: plastic bag printed ‘T S Thick’, Family Butcher, Salisbury Street, Mere, Wiltshire Classifications: trade / butcher Identifications: bag / plastic bag Measurements: height 38.5cm Material: synthetic /
MEREM:1995.101
Brief description: half cross-cut saw Classifications: trade / carpenter Identifications: saw Measurements: height Material:
MEREM:1995.102
Brief description: Gunter’s Surveyor’s chain, iron going rusty, 66ft long divided into 100 links at 7.92 ins each with brass tags every 10 links, [10×10 chains- 1 acre], a relic of the Surveyor’s Dept, Somerset County Council, Wincanton Classifications: trade / surveyor Identifications: chain / surveyor’s chain Material: iron
MEREM:1995.106
Brief description: chromium plated steel paper hole punch, used in Surveyor’s Department Somerset County Council, Wincanton, Somerset Classifications: trade / surveyor Identifications: hole punch Measurements: height 9cm Material: metal / steel plate
MEREM:1995.107
Brief description: office iron and wooden base 2 hole paper punch, used in Surveyor’s Dept. Somerset County Council, Wincanton, Somerset Classifications: trade / surveyor Identifications: hole punch / 2 hole punch Measurements: height 12.5cm Material: wood / iron
MEREM:1995.91
Brief description: label, ‘F Holmes, photographer, Post Card Publisher to the trade, Picture Frame Maker, Collotype Printer’, Mere, Wiltshire, label taken from discarded picture frame in Mere Collection, early 20 century. Classifications: trade / photographer Identifications: label Measurements: height 4cm Material: paper / card
MEREM:1995.88
Brief description: packet of Sedlitz extra strong powder, priced 31/2d on grey paper packet, [originally blue paper] from S F George Dispensing Chemist, Portslade, Sussex, 1920s Classifications: trade / chemist Identifications: powder / Zedlitz Powder Place: Portslade Sussex Measurements: height 4cm Material: paper
MEREM:1995.44
Brief description: bill from Mere Gas Coal and Coke Co Ltd, addressed to Mr T Standerwick for gas supplied, January 1915 and receipted 1.4.1915 Classifications: trade / coal merchant Identifications: bill head Measurements: height 13cm Material: paper
MEREM:1995.32
Brief description: photograph, mounted on grey card, showing Monica Pester outside her greengrocer’s shop, The Square, Mere, Wiltshire, c1938, Classifications: trade / greengrocer Identifications: photograph Place: Mere Wiltshire Measurements: height 9cm
MEREM:1995.6
Brief description: iron glue pot used for woodwork, found on summit of Castle Hill, Mere, Wiltshire by Mr Christopher Walker, September 1994 Classifications: trade / carpenter Identifications: glue pot Measurements: height 7.5cm Material: metal / iron