Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: personalia
    Title: William Barnes 1886-1986
    Brief Description: Dorset Festival handbook, ‘William Barnes 1886-1986’, published by the William Barnes Society, 1986

Production:
    Date: 1986
    Person:
        Person Name: Jones, Bernard
        Person Role: editor
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: William Barnes Society

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Barnes, William
        Person Role: poet
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: festival
        Event Name: Dorset Festival

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: pamphlet
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Notes On Sir Richard Baker, The Chronicler
    Brief Description: Small pamphlet, ‘Notes On Sir Richard Baker, The Chronicler’, with handwritten inscription on cover ‘To John Shalton in memory of Thomas Henry Baker’, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Baker, Richard
    Place:
        Parish: Middle Aston
        County: Oxfordshire

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20 cm
Width: 13 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Mitchell, A Family History 1767-2002
    Brief Description: Fifty-six pages of family history for the Mitchell family of Kington Magna, Milborne Wick, Gillingham, Mere and West Knoyle, compiled by Douglas Mitchell 1970-2002

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1970
        Date End: 2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Mitchell, Douglas
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mitchell family

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: letter
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Copy of a letter from Henry Chard to the Rev Wyld, concerning Mere School scholars and their consumption of buns during Golden Jubilee celebrations, 1st July 1887

Production:
    Date: 1.7.1887
    Person:
        Person Name: Chard, Henry
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wyld, Rev
        Person Role: vicar
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: school
        Site Name: Mere School
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere School
    Event:
        Event Type: golden jubilee
        Event Name: Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper article
    Classification: events
    Title: The Diamond Jubilee Approach To Castle Hill
    Brief Description: Photocopy from an unknown newspaper reporting on the new approach to Castle Hill, Mere, commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of 1897 and opened by Percy Wyndham

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wyndham, Percy
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: hill
        Site Name: Castle Hill
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Diamond Jubilee Committee
    Event:
        Event Type: diamond jubilee
        Event Name: Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 15 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notice
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Typed notice giving details of the forthcoming celebrations in Mere on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, dated 25th February 1977

Production:
    Date: 25.2.1977
    Person:
        Person Name: Williams, R, Mr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Silver Jubilee Committee
    Event:
        Event Type: silver jubilee
        Event Name: Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Title: Mere Plans Jubilee Events
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the planned events in Mere for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, 1977

Production:
    Date: 1977

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Silver Jubilee Committee
    Event:
        Event Type: silver jubilee
        Event Name: Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting of a photograph, showing part of the seventeenth century pageant at Mere for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, June 1977

Production:
    Date: 6.1977

Content:
    Event:
    Place:
            Place Name: The Green
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Seventeenth Century Pageant Committee
    Event:
        Event Type: silver jubilee
        Event Name: Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 18 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Rev F E Trotman, Vicar of Mere 1909-1927
    Brief Description: Typed notes by J M E Trotman, son of Francis Trotman, vicar of Mere 1909-1927, detailing memories of his fathers life, April 1999

Production:
    Date: 4.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Trotman, J, M, E
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Trotman, Francis, Rev
        Person Role: vicar
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Michael’s Church

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Title: A Short History Of The Welch Family Of Mere
    Brief Description: Typed notes by Mrs Jean Coward about the Welch family of Mere, 2004

Production:
    Date: 2004
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Jean, Mrs
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Welch, Jim
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Welch family

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Memories of The Somme
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and the memories of Arthur J S White of that battle, 4th July 1986

Production:
    Date: 4.7.1986
    Person:
        Person Name: White, A, J, S
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: White, A, J

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Regiment
    Event:
        Event Type: war
        Event Name: World War I

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 62 cm
Width: 43 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: A J S White
    Brief Description: Newspaper obituary for Arthur J S White of Mere, former secretary-general of the British Council, 1991

Production:
    Date: 1991

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: White, Arthur, J

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1896
        Date End: 1991
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Regiment
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: A J S White
    Brief Description: Newspaper obituary from The Times for Arthur J S White of Mere, former secretary-general of the British Council, 14th February 1991

Production:
    Date: 14.2.1991
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Times

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: White, Arthur, J

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1896
        Date End: 1991
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Regiment
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 9.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Arthur Rabbits White
    Brief Description: Typed notes by R F Stratton detailing memories of the life of his grandfather, Arthur Rabbits White, undated

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Stratton, R, F, Mr
        Person Role: author

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: White, Arthur Rabbits

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1858
        Date End: 1936
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: farm
        Site Name: Prospect Farm
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire County Council

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Title: John Lucas Willoughby
    Brief Description: Typed notes detailing memories of the life of John Lucas Willoughby, deputy General Manager of Sudan Railways and founder member of the Mere Historical Society, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Willoughby, John Lucas
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Sudan Government Railways

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: New Chairman Seeks to Build Village Links
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the appointment of Andy Young as chairman of Salisbury District Council, 2001

Production:
    Date: 2001

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andy

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury District Council

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 15 cm
Width: 7 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: District Mourns Its Popular Chairman
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Journal reporting on the death of Andy Young, chairman of Salisbury District Council and tireless representative of Mere, 17th January 2002

Production:
    Date: 17.1.2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Lawley, Katharine
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andy

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1943
        Date End: 2002
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury District Council
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Andy Young – A Great Ambassador For Salisbury District Council
    Brief Description: Obituary from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the death of Andy Young, chairman of Salisbury District Council and tireless representative of Mere, 18th January 2002

Production:
    Date: 18.1.2002
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andy
        Person Role: chair
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury District Council
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 13 cm

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Order of service for the funeral of Andy Young, 22nd January 2002

Production:
    Date: 2002

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andy
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Michael’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: funeral

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Memorial Seat Is Funded By Draw
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Journal reporting on a memorial seat in Church Street, Mere, dedicated to Andy Young, 15th January 2004

Production:
    Date: 15.1.2004
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Jean, Nurden, Robert
    Place:
            Place Name: Church Street
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andy
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 29 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Picture of Class of ’31 Brings Back Memories For Eileen
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the St Matthew’s Church exhibition and sale at the Lecture Hall, Mere, undated

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Eileen, Hooper, Ada, Hunt, Nicola
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: hall
            Site Name: Lecture Hall

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Matthew’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: exhibition

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Revisiting Mere
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a newspaper article from the Western Gazette reporting on the visit to Mere of Mr and Mrs Edgar Norris who emigrated to Canada in the early 1900’s and who revisited Mere in 1960, 12th August 1960

Production:
    Date: 12.8.1960
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Norris, Edgar, Norris, Lily
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Former Headmaster At Mere
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an obituary in the Daily Telegraph for Mr George Orton-Smith, former headmaster at Mere County Secondary School, 22nd November 1972

Production:
    Date: 22.11.1972
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Daily Telegraph

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Orton-Smith, George
        Person Role: teacher
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: school
        Site Name: Mere County Secondary School
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Former ‘Special’ Mourned At Mere
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a newspaper obituary to George Stanley Norris of Mere, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Norris, George Stanley
        Person Role: baker
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: bakery
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Parish Council
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: personalia
    Title: A Mere 100
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting and photocopy of an article from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the 100th birthday of Beatrice Alsworth from Mere, 14th November 1995

Production:
    Date: 14.11.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Head, Michael
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Alsworth, Beatrice

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: centenary

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Goodbye Teacher
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting and photocopy of an article from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the retirement of Dorothy Fricker from Mere First School, August 1993

Production:
    Date: 8.1993
    Person:
        Person Name: Head, Michael
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Dorothy
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: school
            Site Name: Mere First School

Association:
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Three-Generation Farm Chapter Closes
    Brief Description: Cutting from Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the retirement of Steve Arney, tractor driver at Manor Farm, Mere, January 1996

Production:
    Date: 1.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Head, Michael
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Arney, Steve, Coward, Arthur, Coward, David, Coward, Rodney
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: farm
            Site Name: Manor Farm

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: farm
        Site Name: Wood Farm
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 8.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Former Shepherd Mourned At Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the death of Walter Peach, shepherd, 30th June 1972

Production:
    Date: 30.6.1972
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Peach, Walter
        Person Role: shepherd
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: farm
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: White family
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 6 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on Mrs L K Pitman of Mere, who completed fifty years as a Poppy Day seller in 1979

Production:
    Date: 1979
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Pitman, L, K, Mrs

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1929
        Date End: 1979
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Royal British Legion
    Event:
        Event Type: fundraising

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on the commemorative plate to Mr George Cross, fixed to a seat on the Council Green, Mere, with a photograph of members from the Lions Club of Warminster and Mrs Phyllis Cross

Production:
    Date: 1970
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Cross, Phyllis, Mrs, Carson, Graham, Shergold, Jack
    Place:
            Place Name: Castle Street
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: green
            Site Name: Council Green

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Cross, George
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Lions Club

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 14 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Order of service for the funeral of Arnold Earnest Conrad Turner at St Matthew’s Church, Mere, 5th June 1998

Production:
    Date: 1998

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Turner, Arnold
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Matthew’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: funeral

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Order of service for the funeral of Victor John Doggrell at St Matthew’s Church, Mere, 13th November 1998

Production:
    Date: 1998

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Doggrell, Victor John
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Matthew’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: funeral

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Order of service for the funeral of Vida Brake at St Matthew’s Church, Mere, 9th December 1997

Production:
    Date: 1997

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Brake, Vida
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Matthew’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: funeral

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Two copies of a three-page memoir about Dr Bernard William Alexander, GP in Gillingham and Mere between 1930 and 1965, compiled by his son William Alexander in 1997

Production:
    Date: 11.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Alexander, William
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Alexander, Bernard William, Dr
        Person Role: doctor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: surgery

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: list
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Four pages of typed lists detailing baptisms at Mere Independent churches from 1796 to 1837, and five pages of handwritten notes, undated

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1796
        Date End: 1837
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
    Event:
        Event Type: baptism

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: local history
    Title: Memories of Mere
    Brief Description: Article from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on recollections of Mere by Phil Avery, former builder from Mere, March 1999

Production:
    Date: 3.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Avery, Phil
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: John Walton and Company

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newsletter
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Two copies of Mere Historical Society News Letter, Spring 2005

Production:
    Date: 2005
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 23

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Robin Farrington
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the death of Robin Farrington who was awarded a Military Cross during his service in Palestine and who retired to Mere, c. 2000

Production:
    Date: 2000

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Farrington, Robin

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Leigh, Vivian
        Person Role: actor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Whitbreads
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 27 cm
Width: 11 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Robert Finan – Every Item Tells A Story
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the career of Robert Finan, antiques expert of Mere, 9th April 1999

Production:
    Date: 9.4.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Finan, Robert

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: inn
        Site Name: Ship Hotel

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 13 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Liz Fricker Pays Tribute To A Real Trouper
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the death of Jeanette Francis, prolific participant in local amateur dramatics in Mere and surrounding district, May 2001

Production:
    Date: 5.2001
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Francis, Jeanette

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Drama Society
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 17 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Town Mourns A Prime Mover
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the death of Dorothy George, an active member of many of Mere’s societies, 23rd August 2001

Production:
    Date: 23.8.2001

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: George, Dorothy
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Drama Society
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 16 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Thirteen pages of letters, notes and lists of theatre and cinema work relating to Eve [Francis Evelyn Garrett] Gray, actress and former resident of Mere, compiled by Nick van der Waarden, 1999

Production:
    Date: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Van der Waarden, Nick
        Person Role: author

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Gray, Eve, Lamont, Molly, Gawthorne, Peter, Flynn, Errol, Garrett, Madge

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Garrett, Francis Evelyn
        Person Role: actor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: 100 Year Old Blanche’s Secret Is To Keep Busy
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Journal reporting on the 100th birthday of Blanche Hames, former cinema worker and resident of Mere, 16th October 2003

Production:
    Date: 16.10.2003
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hames, Blanche

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hames, Arthur
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: centenary

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25 cm
Width: 10.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Alice May Riddy 1901-1961, An Appreciation
    Brief Description: Pale blue booklet, entitled ‘Alice May Riddy 1901-1961, An Appreciation’, containing memoirs of Mrs Riddy by her friends and family, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Riddy, Alice May, Riddy, Mr

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1901
        Date End: 1961
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 13 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Letter to Michael Tighe from Norah Rutter concerning details about the Mere Museum and some notes on Joyce Rutter, often referred to as ‘Miss Mere’ and a photocopy of her obituary [see MHS 714], 24th July 1996

Production:
    Date: 24.7.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Norah
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Joyce
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Museum

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Irene Howe and Dr David Longbourne detailing memories of the life of Frank Charles Stone of Mere, April 1997

Production:
    Date: 4.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Howe, Irene
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Stone, Frank Charles
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
        Site Name: Midwinter House

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Page of typed notes concerning the life of Charles Jeans, transcribed by David Longbourne from information by George Jeans, May 2000

Production:
    Date: 2000
    Person:
        Person Name: Jeans, George
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jeans, Charles
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
        Site Name: Jeans’

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Notes On The Life Of Dr David Longbourne
    Brief Description: Four typed pages of notes, and duplicate, on the life of Dr David Longbourne by himself, 1st January 1998

Production:
    Date: 1.1.1998
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Latimer House
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Nellie Hooper 1885-1908
    Brief Description: Four pages of notes compiled by C H Gooch concerning the murder of Nellie Hooper in India, 1908, and the memorial to her in Mere churchyard, 21st September 1999

Production:
    Date: 21.9.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Gooch, C, H
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hooper, Nellie
        Person Role: nurse
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: murder

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Searching For Roots At Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on the search by Mrs M G Aagaard of Queensland, Australia, for information about her ancestors from Mere, the Lander, Maidment, Curtis and Coward families, 17th April 1987

Production:
    Date: 17.4.1987
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Aagaard, M, G, Mrs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Lander Family

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 10 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Conductor of Choir Retires
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting, and photocopy, from The Western Gazette reporting on the retirement of Mrs Ada Hooper from the role of conductor of Mere Choral Society, 9th May 1975

Production:
    Date: 9.5.1975
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hooper, Ada, K, Mrs
        Person Role: conductor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Choral Society
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Memorial Tree Planted at Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting, and photocopy, from The Western Gazette reporting on the planting of a hawthorn tree at Mere County Infants’ School by Mrs Ada Hooper in memory of her husband, Commander J R Hooper, 4th December 1970

Production:
    Date: 4.12.1970
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hooper, J, R, Commander
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: school
        Site Name: Mere County Infants’ School
    Event:
        Event Type: tree planting

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 10.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Handwritten notes by Suzanne Farrington detailing memories of her father, Herbert Leigh Holman, with typed notes of same details, February 1997

Production:
    Date: 7.2.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Farrington, Suzanne
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Holman, Herbert Leigh
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: manor
        Site Name: Woodlands Manor

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Mrs Barbara Bullock detailing memories of her father, Frank Ford, with typed notes of same details, February 1997

Production:
    Date: 16.2.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Bullock, Barbara, Mrs
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Ford, Frank
        Person Role: clerk
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Parish Council

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and photocopy by Irene Howe detailing the life of her grandfather, Ernest Whitmarsh of Mere, March 1997

Production:
    Date: 3.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Howe, Irene
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Whitmarsh, Ernest
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: E C Whitmarsh and Sons

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newsletter
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Two copies of Mere Historical Society News Letter, Spring 1992

Production:
    Date: 1992
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 23

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Four pages of notes, including duplicate, recalling the life of Gladys Beauchamp Matthews of Mere, undated

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Matthews, Gladys Beauchamp

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1893
        Date End: 1979
    Person:
        Person Name: Matthews, Arthur
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Castle House

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by June Phillips detailing memories of Jessie Elizabeth Wells, District Nurse in Mere for thirty-nine years, with typed notes of same details, undated

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Phillips, June, L
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wells, Jessie, Elizabeth
        Person Role: nurse
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: The Beeches
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Nursing Association

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Letter from John Toy to David Longbourne, and reply, concerning the Toy and Baverstock families of Mere with some photocopied photographs, November 2007

Production:
    Date: 11.2007
    Person:
        Person Name: Toy, John
        Person Role: author

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Toy, John, Baverstock, Florence, Baverstock, Sarah Jane

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Toy, John
        Person Role: brickmaker
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Toy family

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Two pages of handwritten and one of typed notes, detailing the verdicts from various court sessions for Mere residents, 26th April 2000

Production:
    Date: 26.4.2000
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Daphne
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: Ten Years’ Service
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the retirement of Reverend John Renison from Mere Congregational Church, c. 1960’s

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1960
        Date End: 1969

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Burdon, Walter, Renison, John, Filer, F, W, Mr

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Congregational Church
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 48 cm
Width: 9 cm

Identification:
    Object name: memoir
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Henry William Burden 1883-197
    Brief Description: Ten pages of handwritten and typed notes, a memoir of Henry Burden, nurseryman of Mere, written by his son John Burden, March 1997

Production:
    Date: 3.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Burden, John
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Burden, Henry, William
        Person Role: nurseryman
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newsletter
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Three copies of Mere Historical Society News Letter, Autumn 1978

Production:
    Date: 1978
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 22

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Eleven pages of notes and letters relating to the Stone family of Mere, 2002

Production:
    Date: 2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Croteau, Pat, Mrs
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Stone Family

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Seven pages of notes and a family tree relating to the Still family of Mere, compiled by Eileen Thesiger, nee Still

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Thesiger, Eileen
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Still Family

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Thirteen pages of letters between Michael Tighe and Christine and Robin Suter regarding the Suter family of Mere, 2001-2006

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2001
        Date End: 2006
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Suter Family

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Forty-seven pages of correspondence including enquiries about Duchy land in Mere, Mere Manor and Thomas Schutz, 1973-2002

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1973
        Date End: 2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Willoughby, Jack
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Schutz, Thomas
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Letter from Angela Chislett to Dr Longbourne relating details from the lives of her parents, William Leolyn Standerwick and Ethel May Standerwick, and typed notes of same details, undated

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Chislett, Angela
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Standerwick, William Leolyn
        Person Role: farmer
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: farm
        Site Name: Lordsmead Farm

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Death Leaves A Gap In Local History
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an obituary from a local newspaper for Miss Alice Joyce Rutter, Quaker and local historian, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Alice Joyce
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 12 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Council’s Veteran Looks Back
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting, and photocopy, from The Western Gazette reporting on Mr Jack Paul and his decision not to stand as district councillor, with details of his achievements over twenty-nine years, 1st May 1987

Production:
    Date: 1.5.1987
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Jack

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Jack
        Person Role: councillor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury District Council
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 17 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Handwritten notes by Mrs Eileen Paul detailing memories of her deceased husband, Jack Paul, with typed notes of same details, March 1997

Production:
    Date: 3.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Eileen
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Jack
        Person Role: councillor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury District Council

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Iris Banham-Lee
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting of an obituary to Iris Banham-Lee, charity events organiser and director of People and Places, part of the charity Action Research for the Crippled Child, former resident of Mere, April 2000

Production:
    Date: 2000

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Banham-Lee, Iris

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1919
        Date End: 2000
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Dewes Lodge
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Action Research for the Crippled Child
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 18

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 38.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: diary
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Seven different ‘diary for a day’ entries, and an explanation page for the Mere Literary Festival, 16th October 2008

Production:
    Date: 16.10.2008
    Person:
        Person Name: Durkee, Mike
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Library
    Event:
        Event Type: festival
        Event Name: Mere Literary Festival

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette taken from the ‘News From The Past – 200 Years Ago’ section, an article reporting on Christmas Day at Mere Workhouse, 8th January 1982

Production:
    Date: 8.1.1982
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: workhouse
        Site Name: Mere Workhouse
    Event:
        Event Type: festival
        Event Name: Christmas

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 26 cm
Width: 5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the Shreen Choir, Mere, December 1999

Production:
    Date: 12.1999

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: clock tower

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Shreen Choir
    Event:
        Event Type: carol singing

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 8.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Title: Queen’s Visit To West
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the Queen’s visit to Mere, 4th July 1952

Production:
    Date: 4.7.1952
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: royal visit

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 60.5 cm
Width: 34 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Title: Rousing Welcome For Prince Charles
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the visit by Prince Charles to Manor Farm, Mere, 19th June 1970

Production:
    Date: 19.6.1970
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Windsor, Charles
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: farm
        Site Name: Manor Farm
    Event:
        Event Type: royal visit

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 64 cm
Width: 18 cm

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: Dakota Memorial
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine, with duplicate, reporting on the dedication of a memorial to 21 airmen killed in a Dakota crash as the plane took off from RAF Zeals during the Second World War, 3rd September 1999

Production:
    Date: 3.9.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Head, Michael
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Davey, Frederick
    Event:
    Place:
            Parish: Zeals
            County: Wiltshire
            Site Name: Beech Ridge

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lugg, Alex
    Place:
        Parish: Zeals
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: airfield
        Site Name: RAF Zeals
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Historical Military Society
    Event:
        Event Type: dedication

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 16 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: warfare and defence
    Title: The Hand of Friendship
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on a former American radio operator during the Second World War, Erwin Sadow, who having been stationed in Manor Road, Mere from 1943-1944, had returned to Wiltshire with a group of war veterans, September 1994

Production:
    Date: 9.1994
    Person:
        Person Name: Head, Michael
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Sadow, Erwin, Jeans, George

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1943
        Date End: 1944
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: American 3rd Armoured Division
    Event:
        Event Type: unveiling

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 11 cm
Width: 10 cm

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: warfare and defence
    Brief Description: Order of Service to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, 19th August 1995

Production:
    Date: 19.8.1995

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1939
        Date End: 1945
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland
    Event:
        Event Type: service

Object location:  Box 13

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 10 cm

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: natural history
    Classification: geology
    Title: A Contribution on the Physiography of the Mere District, Wiltshire
    Brief Description: Printed booklet, duplicate of MHS90, containing ‘A Contribution on the Physiography of the Mere District’, a report of a field trip in 1937 and a geological map of the Mere and Shaftesbury districts, dated 1938

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Edmunds, F, H, Mr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Geologist’s Association

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 14 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: Page of handwritten notes, probably by Bernard Berry, describing Woolverton Hole which was formed by excavation for quarrying stone, undated

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Berry, Bernard
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: cave
        Site Name: Woolverton Hole

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photograph
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: Two black and white photographs of Woolverton Hole, formed by stone quarrying, undated

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: cave
            Site Name: Woolverton Hole

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 9 cm
Width: 13 cm

Identification:
    Object name: printout
    Classification: archaeology
    Brief Description: Sites and Monuments Record printout of archaeological finds in and around Mere, date unknown

Production:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Sites and Monuments Record

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: index card
    Classification: archaeology
    Brief Description: Three photocopied pages of index cards, source unknown, detailing various archaeological finds in and around Mere, date unknown

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: letter
    Classification: archaeology
    Brief Description: Typed letter from Michael Tighe to the County Archaeologist concerning early archaeology at Mere, 3rd March 1995

Production:
    Date: 3.3.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Freke, Lesley
        Person Role: archaeologist
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire County Council

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: report
    Classification: archaeology
    Title: 9 Barnes Place, Mere, Wiltshire
    Brief Description: Archaeological report with maps by Wessex Archaeology on the discovery of human remains at 9 Barnes Place, Mere, October 1995

Production:
    Date: 10.1995
            Parish: Salisbury
            County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Trust for Wessex Archaeology

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire County Council
    Event:
        Event Type: excavation

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Neil Howlett relating to the origins of the name ‘Beggars Bush’, one example found at Charnage, Mere, 20002

Production:
    Date: 2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Site Name: Beggars Bush

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: fine art
    Classification: paintings
    Title: In Praise of Toadstools
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the artist Suzanne Lucas, 11th December 1992

Production:
    Date: 11.12.1992
    Person:
        Person Name: Bower, Kathy
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lucas, Suzanne

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: fine art
    Classification: paintings
    Title: Toadstools Booked In All Their Glory
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the artist Suzanne Lucas, 15th August 1997

Production:
    Date: 15.8.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Whitfield, Chris
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lucas, Suzanne
        Person Role: artist
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: environment
    Classification: nature
    Title: Whitesheet Hill
    Brief Description: Two copies of a Wiltshire Trust For Nature Conservation guide to Whitesheet Hill, nature reserve, near Mere, 1988

Production:
    Date: 1988
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Trust For Nature Conservation

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Kilmington
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: hill
        Site Name: Whitesheet Hill

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: survey
    Classification: environment
    Title: National Trust Biological Survey
    Brief Description: Eleven typed pages, including maps and plans, of a National Trust Biological survey on Stourhead, including White Sheet Hill and White Sheet Down, June 1982

Production:
    Date: 6.1982
    Person:
        Person Name: Lutley, W
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Bullard, P
        Person Role: surveyor
    Place:
        Parish: Kilmington
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: hill
        Site Name: White Sheet Hill
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: National Trust

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Title: Look At Lynchets
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the strip lynchets above Mere, 3rd January 1986

Production:
    Date: 3.1.1986
    Person:
        Person Name: Powell, Michael, Rev
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: lynchet

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Title: The Meeting of the Ways
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the town of Mere, 18th March 1956

Production:
    Date: 18.3.1956
    Person:
        Person Name: Hutchings, Monica
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 42.5 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: Twenty-two pages of assorted correspondence and notes concerning the creation of a village appraisal for Mere – see MHS 386, 1994-1995

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1994
        Date End: 1995

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: Notes for a talk at the Mere Womens’ Institute compiled into a booklet, once owned by Mrs Perrett, and concentrating on Castle Hill, Mere and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, by Frances E Lovibond, 27th May 1937

Production:
    Date: 27.5.1937
    Person:
        Person Name: Lovibond, Frances, E
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Richard
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: castle
        Site Name: Mere Castle
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Womens’ Institute
    Event:
        Event Type: meeting

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Large map showing the designated conservation area for Mere, February 1973

Production:
    Date: 2.1973

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: McDonic, G, F
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: County Planning Office

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 39 cm
Width: 59.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Classification: nature
    Title: Townsfolk Do It In Stile
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine with photograph, reporting on the footpath working party, Mere, 27th September 1990

Production:
    Date: 27.9.1990
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Taylor, Michael
        Person Role: chair
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: footpath
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Footpath Working Party

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19 cm
Width: 12 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Classification: nature
    Title: Footpath Group In Need Of Help
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the need for more volunteers to walk the network of paths in Mere, 1st April 1988

Production:
    Date: 1.4.1988

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Taylor, Michael
        Person Role: chair
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: footpath
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Parish Council

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 8 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Classification: nature
    Title: Sheep Could Save Hill
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the possible grazing of sheep on Castle Hill to stop overgrown vegetation spreading, 10th July 1981

Production:
    Date: 10.7.1981
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: hill
        Site Name: Castle Hill
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Parish Council

Object location:  Box 12

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 4.5 cm