Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: local history
    Title: An Exchange of Brides, 1732
    Brief Description: Appendix ‘An Exchange of Brides, 1732’ by Michael McGarvie regarding the history of Lady Lucy Meyrick who once lived at Woodlands Manor, Mere, undated, late 20th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1975
        Date End: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: McGarvie, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1702
        Date End: 1772
    Person:
        Person Name: Meyrick, Lucy, Lady
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: manor house
        Site Name: Woodlands Manor

Object location:  Box 53

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 19 cm

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Extract from ‘Book of Marston Bigot’ by Michael McGarvie with mention of the Dodington family and Marston House, Somerset, undated, late 20th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1975
        Date End: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: McGarvie, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1573
        Date End: 1740
    Place:
        Parish: Marston
        County: Somerset
        Locality Type: manor house
        Site Name: Marston House
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Dodington Family

Object location:  Box 53

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25 cm
Width: 40 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Michael McGarvie on various subjects particularly Woodlands Manor, Mere, 2000

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 12.9.2000
        Date End: 27.11.2000
    Person:
        Person Name: McGarvie, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Parnwell, Peter
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: manor house
        Site Name: Woodlands Manor
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Dodington Family

Object location:  Box 53

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: A Short History Of The Welch Family Of Mere
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe and article ‘A Short History Of The Welch Family Of Mere’ by Jean Coward relating to the Welch Family of Mere, 27th February 2004

Production:
    Date: 27.2.2004
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1850
        Date End: 1990
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Welch Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Story of The Forwards
    Brief Description: Book, ‘The Story of The Forwards’ by Gilbert Forward from Australia and accompanying letter concerning the Forwards from K M Thomas, book 1976 and letter 1978

Production:
    Date: 1.1976
    Person:
        Person Name: Forward, Gilbert
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 53

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 26 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will by Michael Tighe relating to the Forward Family of Mere, c.1995

Production:
    Date: 1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1624
        Date End: 1851
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Forward Family

Object location:  Box 53

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will and inventory by Michael Tighe relating to the Forward Family of Mere, 3rd October 1993

Production:
    Date: 3.10.1993
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1569
        Date End: 1851
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Forward Family

Object location:  Box 53

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will and inventory by Michael Tighe relating to the Forward Family of Mere, 5th November 1995

Production:
    Date: 5.11.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1547
        Date End: 1618
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Forward Family

Object location:  Box 53

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will and inventory by Michael Tighe relating to the Forward Family of Mere, 13th October 1998

Production:
    Date: 13.10.1998
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1593
        Date End: 1895
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Forward Family

Object location:  Box 53

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Snook Family of Mere, 27th September 2001

Production:
    Date: 27.9.2001
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1587
        Date End: 1927
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Snook Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will by Michael Tighe relating to the Taylor Family of Mere, 26th April 1999

Production:
    Date: 26.4.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1718
        Date End: 1891
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Taylor Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will and inventory by Michael Tighe relating to the Morgan Family of Mere, c. 2000

Production:
    Date: 2000
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1588
        Date End: 1953
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Morgan Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will by Michael Tighe relating to the Morris Family of Mere, 25th October 2002

Production:
    Date: 25.10.2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1790
        Date End: 1879
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Morris Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will by Michael Tighe relating to the Norris Family of Mere, c. 2000

Production:
    Date: 2000
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1689
        Date End: 1896
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Norris Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Rutter Family of Mere, 30th November 1999

Production:
    Date: 30.11.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1855
        Date End: 1926
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Dewes House
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Rutter Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Jupe Family of Mere, 11th March 2005

Production:
    Date: 11.3.2005
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1580
        Date End: 1893
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Jupe Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will and inventory by Michael Tighe relating to the Jukes Family of Mere, 16th March 2002

Production:
    Date: 16.3.2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1698
        Date End: 1888
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Jukes Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Lampard Family of Mere, 18th December 2002

Production:
    Date: 18.12.2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lampard, John Archibald
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Lampard Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Larkam Family of Mere, 19th November 1997

Production:
    Date: 19.11.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1830
        Date End: 1894
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Larkam Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will by Michael Tighe relating to the Latimer Family of Mere, 21st October 1999

Production:
    Date: 21.10.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1784
        Date End: 1843
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Latimer Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Long Family of Mere, 11th May 1999

Production:
    Date: 11.5.1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1823
        Date End: 1892
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Long Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Miles Family of Mere, c. 1999

Production:
    Date: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1636
        Date End: 1891
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Miles Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Mills Family of Mere, c. 1999

Production:
    Date: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1841
        Date End: 1996
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mills Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Hill Family from Mere, 8th March 2000

Production:
    Date: 8.3.2000
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1850
        Date End: 1996
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Hill Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of will and inventory by Michael Tighe relating to Thomas Dogerill of Wolverton, Zeals, c. 1999

Production:
    Date: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1677
        Date End: 1684
    Person:
        Person Name: Dogerill, Thomas
    Place:
        Parish: Zeals
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes and transcription of inventory by Michael Tighe relating to Edward and Richard Fisher of Mere, c. 1993

Production:
    Date: 1993
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1644
        Date End: 1685
    Person:
        Person Name: Fisher, Edward
        Person Role: weaver
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Will and inventory of Frances Albyn from Mere, 1678

Production:
    Date: 1678

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Albyn, Frances
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Notes, wills and inventories of the Alford Family from Mere, 1567-1689

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1567
        Date End: 1689

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

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Wills and inventories of the Alford Family from Mere, 1587-1842

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1587
        Date End: 1842

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

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Wills and inventories of the Allen/Allyne Family from Mere, 1570-1599

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1570
        Date End: 1599

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Allen, Thomas
        Person Role: blacksmith
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Allen Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Notes and inventory of the Andrews Family from Mere, 1671-1822

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1671
        Date End: 1822

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

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: will
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Notes and will of the Arnold Family from Zeals, 1780-1821

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1780
        Date End: 1821

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Zeals
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Arnold Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: will
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Inventory and will of Edward Astwicke from Mere, 1578

Production:
    Date: 1578

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Astwicke, Edward
        Person Role: blacksmith
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: will
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: Inventories and wills of the Awbrey Family from Mere, 1559-1756

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1559
        Date End: 1756

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

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes relating to the Avery Family from Mere, 1767-2000

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1767
        Date End: 2000

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Avery, Albert
        Person Role: builder
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Avery Family

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes relating to the Card Family of Mere, 1839-1881

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1839
        Date End: 1881

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

Object location:  Box 52

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

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: domestic
    Classification: furniture
    Title: Thomas Chippendale The Younger At Stourhead
    Brief Description: Booklet ‘Thomas Chippendale The Younger At Stourhead’ by Judith Goodison published by The Furniture History Society in 2005

Production:
    Date: 2005
    Person:
        Person Name: Goodison, Judith
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Furniture History Society

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1795
        Date End: 1820
    Person:
        Person Name: Chippendale, Thomas
        Person Role: cabinet maker
    Place:
        Parish: Stourton with Gasper
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: country house
        Site Name: Stourhead

Object location:  Box 52

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 17.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: album
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photograph album with photographs of the Walton family from Mere and Gillingham, c. 1893-1942

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1893
        Date End: 1942

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Gillingham
        County: Dorset
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Oakleigh
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 52

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 26 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Printout from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission of casualty details concerning Norman William Harding of the Dorset Yeomanry, with notes relating to Norman William Harding listed in the 1901 census for Mere, 2004

Production:
    Date: 19.4.2004

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Harding, Norman William
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    Event:
        Event Type: war
        Event Name: World War I

Object location:  Box 51

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Mere Business Focus
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Visitor reporting on the Mere Congregational Chapel and its new ownership by Jeans Electrical, Mere, May 2000

Production:
    Date: 5.2000
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Visitor

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Salisbury Street
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: chapel
            Site Name: Mere Congregational Chapel

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jeans, George
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Jeans Electrical

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Personal Attention Still Keynote At The Bridge Stores
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on the modernisation of The Bridge Stores, Salisbury Street, Mere, 16th September 1966

Production:
    Date: 16.9.1966
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jukes, Alfred, Mr
    Place:
            Place Name: Salisbury Street
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: supermarket
            Site Name: The Bridge Stores

Association:
    Event:
        Event Type: conversion

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 41.5 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Brainwave Volunteers Honoured At Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the Brainwave charity shop in Mere, 25th December 2009

Production:
    Date: 25.12.2009
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jukes, Peggy, Thomas, Shirley, Evans, Paul, Donohoe, Jane
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: shop
            Site Name: Brainwave Charity Shop

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Brainwave
    Event:
        Event Type: anniversary

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 10 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Mere Volunteers Help Raise £300,000 For Brainwave
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the ninth anniversary of the Brainwave charity shop in Mere, 28th March 2008

Production:
    Date: 28.3.2008
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jukes, Peggy, Thomas, Shirley
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: inn
            Site Name: Walnut Tree Inn

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
        Site Name: Brainwave Charity Shop
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Brainwave
    Event:
        Event Type: anniversary

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Title: Auction Attracts Locals
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from unknown newspaper reporting on an auction at Finan & Co, Mere, undated, late 20th or early 21st century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1985
        Date End: 2010

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Finan & Co
    Event:
        Event Type: auction

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 3.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: catalogue page
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Page from auction catalogue, Finan & Co, illustrating various tables, Mere, undated, late 20th or early 21st century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1985
        Date End: 2010

Content:

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Finan & Co
    Event:
        Event Type: auction

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24 cm
Width: 14 cm

Identification:
    Object name: catalogue page
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: Page from auction catalogue, Finan & Co, illustrating various barometers and a 19th century longcase clock sold on behalf of Mere United Reform Church, Mere, undated, late 20th or early 21st century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1985
        Date End: 2010

Content:

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Finan & Co
    Event:
        Event Type: auction

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24 cm
Width: 14 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: End Of An Era At Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the retirement of barber Bob Evans, Mere, 6th July 2001

Production:
    Date: 6.7.2001
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Evans, Bob, Johnson, Alan

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

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20 cm
Width: 12 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Staff Escape As Bales Hit Shop
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Salisbury Journal reporting on straw bales toppling over from a trailer against Jeans Electrical shop, Salisbury Street, Mere, 30th August 2001

Production:
    Date: 30.8.2001
    Person:
        Person Name: Lawley, Katharine
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury Journal

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
        Site Name: Jeans Electrical
    Event:
        Event Type: accident

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Last Straw
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Salisbury Journal reporting on straw bales toppling over from a trailer against Jeans Electrical shop, Salisbury Street, Mere, 30th August 2001

Production:
    Date: 30.8.2001
    Person:
        Person Name: Fatherly, Herbie
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury Journal

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Salisbury Street
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: shop
            Site Name: Jeans Electrical

Association:
    Event:
        Event Type: accident

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 16 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: invoice
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Invoice or bill from John Walton & Co, Bourton branch, to George Still, mounted on stiffer paper, 9th January 1888

Production:
    Date: 9.1.1888
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: John Walton & Co

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Still, George
    Place:
        Parish: Bishops Cannings
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
        Site Name: John Walton & Co

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Depth: 24.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Handwritten notes, unknown author, relating to the history of Norris and Son, bakers, possibly relating to John Walton & Co, Mere, undated, mid to late 20th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1945
        Date End: 1999

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Norris and Son

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 17.5 cm
Width: 11.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Handwritten notes, unknown author possibly H Ross, relating to John Walton & Co, Mere, undated, mid to late 20th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1946
        Date End: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Ross, H
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: John Walton & Co

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 18 cm

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: GP Uncorks A Vintage Practice
    Brief Description: Page from GP publication reporting on Dr Judith Bell and her husband Robin Yapp, 13th April 1984

Production:
    Date: 13.4.1984
    Person:
        Person Name: Mihill, Chris
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: GP

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Bell, Judith, Dr, Yapp, Robin
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: wine merchants
            Site Name: Yapp Brothers

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Gillingham
        County: Dorset

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 40.5 cm
Width: 28.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: The Wiltshire Foundry, Warminster 1816-1909
    Brief Description: Book, ‘The Wiltshire Foundry, Warminster 1816-1909’ by Danny Howell, November 1987

Production:
    Date: 11.1987
    Person:
        Person Name: Howell, Danny
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wylye Valley Publications

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1816
        Date End: 1909
    Place:
        Parish: Warminster
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: foundry
        Site Name: Wiltshire Foundry

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: advertisement
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an advertisement for John Walton & Co, Mere, late 19th or early 20th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1880
        Date End: 1935
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: John Walton & Co

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and various others, including Philip Coward, concerning the future of cottages connected to the Hill Brush Company at Causeway, Mere, 2003

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.7.2003
        Date End: 16.7.2003
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Hill Brush Company

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: The Causeway
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: house

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Philip
        Person Role: director
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Hill Brush Company

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Walton’s new foodmarket offers self-service with a difference
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Western Gazette advertising the new food department at John Walton’s of Mere, 17th May 1968

Production:
    Date: 17.5.1968
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: department store
            Site Name: John Walton & Co

Association:
    Event:
        Event Type: opening

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 64 cm
Width: 65 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Waltons. Manuscript Notes In Possession Of Mr Andrew Young, July 1995
    Brief Description: Transcription of manuscript notes concerning the history of John Walton & Co department store, 6th September 1995

Production:
    Date: 6.9.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: editor

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1881
        Date End: 1912
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andrew
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 22 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: The Walton Family Of Mere
    Brief Description: Three pages of notes relating to the Walton family of Mere, undated, c. late 20th or early 21st century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1980
        Date End: 2005
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1844
        Date End: 1934
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 22 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Zeals
    Brief Description: Handwritten notes compiled from various trade directories concerning a shop and outbuildings, possibly in Zeals, listing previous ownership and the selling of the property to the Walton’s of Mere in 1919, undated, c. late 20th or early 21st century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1980
        Date End: 2005
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1848
        Date End: 1919
    Person:
        Person Name: Drew, Thomas
    Place:
        Parish: Zeals
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
        Site Name: London House
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 27 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Notes Of Talk With Mr & Mrs Andrew Young, 23 Jan 1996
    Brief Description: Notes compiled from Walton’s price lists and a longer section from a talk with Mr and Mrs Andrew Young concerning details of life at Walton’s department store, mainly in the 1960’s and 1970’s, 23rd January 1996

Production:
    Date: 23.1.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1907
        Date End: 1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Andrew, Mr
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Letters from Michael Tighe to Mr C A G Clifford and Mrs M Clifford, (mother and son), concerning the history of the Waltons of Mere, 1996

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 13.2.1996
        Date End: 19.3.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Clifford, C, A, G Mr
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Letters between Michael Tighe and Dr Brian Austen from The Furniture History Society, concerning the production of furniture by John Walton & Co of Mere, 1997

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 20.9.1997
        Date End: 30.12.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Furniture History Society

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper article
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Photocopied article from unknown newspaper concerning the circumstances of the death of John Walton of Mere, September 1909

Production:
    Date: 1909

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Walton, John
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 10.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper article
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Photocopied article from unknown newspaper concerning the funeral of John Walton of Mere, 1909

Production:
    Date: 1909

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Walton, John
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: funeral

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30.5 cm
Width: 10.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Photocopied advertising booklet for the department store of John Walton & Co Ltd, Mere, November 1948

Production:
    Date: 11.1948

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co Ltd

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: price list
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Photocopied price list (original at Mere Museum), for the department store of John Walton & Co Ltd, Mere, 1934

Production:
    Date: 1934

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: department store
        Site Name: John Walton & Co Ltd

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Yapp Brothers – Mere’s Famous Wine Business
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on Yapp Brothers, wine merchants from Mere, 28th August 1998

Production:
    Date: 28.8.1998
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Yapp, Jason
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: wine merchants
            Site Name: Yapp Brothers

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Yapp, Robin
        Person Role: vintner

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Ray Farleigh concerning Lander’s brewery in Mere, 1995

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 15.4.1995
        Date End: 24.5.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: brewery
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Lander Family

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Correspondence from Michael Tighe to Robin Yapp of Yapp Brothers Ltd, wine merchants of Mere, relating to the planned Mere Paper by Mr Tighe on the history of the Yapp site, 1998

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 29.4.1998
        Date End: 13.11.1998
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Yapp, Robin
        Person Role: vintner
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: wine merchants
        Site Name: Yapp Brothers Ltd
    Event:
        Event Type: anniversary
        Event Name: 30th anniversary of Yapp Brothers Ltd

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: report
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Beer, Bacon, Milk And Wine
    Brief Description: First draft of the Mere Paper ‘Beer, Bacon, Milk And Wine’ by Michael Tighe, a history of the Brewery site and of Yapp Brothers Ltd, with a note and amendments by Robin Yapp, Mere, 13th November 1998

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 13.11.1998
        Date End: 23.11.1998
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: wine merchants
        Site Name: Yapp Brothers Ltd
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Lander Family

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Edward’s
    Brief Description: Advertisement feature from the Blackmore Vale Magazine featuring Edward’s grocers, Queen Victoria Hall, The Square, Mere, 9th November 1990

Production:
    Date: 9.11.1990
    Person:
        Person Name: Brown, Nick
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: The Square
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: supermarket
            Site Name: Edward’s

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Trill, Edward
        Person Role: grocer

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 15 cm
Width: 19.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Al Charlton In Business At Mere
    Brief Description: Advertisement feature from The Gillingham News featuring Al Charlton and his new ownership of Cockrams Hardware Store, Mere, c. 2007

Production:
    Date: 2007
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Gillingham News

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Charlton, Al

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Charlton, Val
        Person Role: shopkeeper
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: hardware shop
        Site Name: Cockrams Hardware Store

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 20 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Small cutting from unknown publication featuring George Jeans outside the closed Old Ship Hotel, Mere, c. 2005-2006

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2005
        Date End: 2006

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jeans, George
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: inn
            Site Name: Old Ship Hotel

Association:
    Event:
        Event Type: closure

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 8 cm
Width: 10 cm

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: recreation
    Classification: performing arts
    Title: The Ancient Society of College Youths
    Brief Description: Small, brown book ‘The Ancient Society of College Youths’, a history of the London society who met to practice bell ringing, book containing rules and regulations of the group, edited in 1928, reprinted in 1945 and presented to A John Gray, Salisbury Street, Mere, in 1946

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1928
        Date End: 1945
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Staples Press Limited

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Gray, A John
        Person Role: bellringer
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Notes Of Talk With Mr & Mrs Andrew Young
    Brief Description: Three pages of notes and a letter to Mr and Mrs Andrew Young from Michael Tighe relating to their newsagent business run from the former Waltons store, 23rd January 1996

Production:
    Date: 23.1.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Young, Jean
        Person Role: shopkeeper
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: shop
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Sundry Notes Re Waltons
    Brief Description: Fifteen pages of notes by Michael Tighe, ‘Sundry Notes Re Waltons’ , 15th December 1995

Production:
    Date: 15.12.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: deed
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photocopies of legal deeds and illustrated map relating to various properties sold by the Walton family, 1898-1948

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1990
        Date End: 2000

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1898
        Date End: 1948
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

Identification:
    Object name: letter
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Letter from Michael Tighe to Mrs D H Lloyd relating to the family history of the Waltons of Mere, 23rd August 1995

Production:
    Date: 23.8.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lloyd, D, H, Mrs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 22 cm

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Jane Dawson, relative of the Waltons of Mere, from New Zealand relating to the family history of the Waltons of Mere, January – February 1997

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 23.1.1997
        Date End: 1.2.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Correspondence from ‘Bob’, grandson of John Walton from Mere, to Pat Taylor and letter from Mrs Taylor to Michael Tighe relating to the family history of the Waltons of Mere, 1995

Production:
    Date: 1995
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Mr M Ashcroft, County Archivist of North Yorkshire, relating to the family history of the Waltons of Mere, 1997

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 24.10.1997
        Date End: 7.11.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Correspondence from Michael Tighe to Mrs Jane Wentling of Florida and another unidentified person, relating to the family history of the Waltons of Mere, 1995

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 23.8.1995
        Date End: 15.9.1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wentling, Jane Dyke, Mrs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton Family

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Karen Sampson, Deputy Archivist of Lloyds Bank, relating to the family history of the Card family from Mere, 1994-1996

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.11.1994
        Date End: 18.10.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: letter
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photocopied letter (green) signed from Mr Clifford, managing director of John Walton & Co Ltd, announcing the selling of the laundry business to The Three Counties Laundry Ltd, Mere, c.1950’s

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1950
        Date End: 1959
    Person:
        Person Name: Clifford, Mr
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: John Walton & Co Ltd

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Talbot, Mr
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Three Counties Laundry Ltd

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Notes transcribed from Derek Bristow of Mere who worked at Waltons department store from 1943, memories of the store and other recollections of local history in Mere, 2nd May 1996

Production:
    Date: 2.5.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Bristow, Derek

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

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Title: The History of The Hill Brush Company
    Brief Description: Paper ‘The History of The Hill Brush Company’ by David Coward, August 2003 and a letter from Michael Tighe encouraging Mr Coward to write the story of the Brush Company, 1996

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 15.10.1996
        Date End: 8.2003
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, David, Mr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Hill Brush Company

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Correspondence between Michael Tighe and Kate McCluskey from the Department of Furniture and Woodwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, relating to the cabinet making workshop at John Walton & Co, Mere, 1996

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 26.1.1996
        Date End: 6.2.1996
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: John Walton & Co Ltd

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: local history
    Title: The Wilts & Dorset Banking Company
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the history of the Wilts and Dorset Banking Company in Mere, 25th April 1986

Production:
    Date: 25.4.1986
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Card, Charles
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wilts and Dorset Banking Company

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: photograph
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Photocopy of photograph showing the staff of Walton’s Stores, grouped outside the building, c.1895

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1890
        Date End: 1900

Content:
    Person:
    Organisation:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Title: Value-For-Money Quality Goods is the Keynote of Trading by Walton’s of Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on the new food market and redesigned ground floor of John Walton & Co Ltd of Mere, 17th May 1968

Production:
    Date: 17.5.1968
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Clifford, Mrs
    Organisation:

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

Object location:  Box 50

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 64 cm
Width: 44.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Brushmaking
    Brief Description: Notes by unknown author on the history of brushmaking, possibly in relation to The Hill Brush Company, Mere, 2nd November 1999

Production:
    Date: 2.11.1999

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Hill Brush Company
    Event:
        Event Type: opening

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: The Hill Brush Company
    Brief Description: Notes by unknown author, ‘The Hill Brush Company’, charting the history of the company in Mere, 30th July 2002

Production:
    Date: 30.7.2002

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Hill Brush Company

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: catalogue
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: 2002 Salmon Products, Brushes and Cleaning Equipment
    Brief Description: Catalogue produced by Salmon Products, The Hill Brush Company, Mere, featuring a range of cleaning products, 2002

Production:
    Date: 2002
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salmon Products

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Philip
        Person Role: director
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Hill Brush Company

Object location:  Box 50

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

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: Induction Of Mere’s New Vicar
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the induction of the Rev Brian John Smith as Vicar of Mere, 14th April 1976

Production:
    Date: 14.4.1976
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Smith, Brian John, Rev
        Person Role: vicar
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Michael’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: institution

Object location:  Box 54

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: Hilltop Cross Proclaimed Message
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from unknown newspaper reporting on a large, wooden cross temporarily erected on Castle Hill, Mere, to mark Passiontide at Easter, 8th April 1977

Production:
    Date: 8.4.1977

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: hill
        Site Name: Castle Hill
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere and District Council of Churches
    Event:
        Event Type: easter

Object location:  Box 54

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19 cm
Width: 5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on a procession of witness and the carrying of a ten foot, wooden cross to be temporarily erected on Castle Hill, Mere, to mark Passiontide at Easter, 15th April 1977

Production:
    Date: 15.4.1977

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: hill
            Site Name: Castle Hill

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere and District Council of Churches
    Event:
        Event Type: easter

Object location:  Box 54

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 15 cm
Width: 19 cm

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: Storm Damage At Mere
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette, letter to the editor from H J Maidment commenting on the damaged pinnacle of St Michael’s Church and other storms at Mere, 22nd July 1977

Production:
    Date: 22.7.1977
    Person:
        Person Name: Maidment, H, J, Mr
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Michael’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: lightning

Object location:  Box 54

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: The Chantry, Mere, Wiltshire
    Brief Description: Extract of photocopied article ‘The Chantry, Mere, Wiltshire’ by W A Pantin, undated, post 1953

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1953
    Person:
        Person Name: Pantin, W, A
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Michael’s Church

Object location:  Box 54

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22 cm
Width: 15 cm

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Title: The Catholic Laity Of Wiltshire
    Brief Description: Extract of photocopied article ‘The Catholic Laity Of Wiltshire’, mention of Mere, undated, mid to late 20th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1955
        Date End: 1999

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 54

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22 cm
Width: 15 cm