MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.7

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet SU 16 NW
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet SU 16 NW, six inches to a mile, showing West Overton and East Kennett, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: West Overton
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 67 cm
Width: 47 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1518

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Copies of an 1891 Ordnance Survey map of Mere and various enlargements

Production:
    Date: 1891
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 42 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.6

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet ST 92 NE
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet ST 92 NE, six inches to a mile, showing Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Sutton Mandeville
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 68 cm
Width: 54.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.9

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet ST 92 SE
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet ST 92 SE, six inches to a mile, showing Alvediston, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Alvediston
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 51 cm
Width: 50.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.10

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet SU 16 SE
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet SU 16 SE, six inches to a mile, showing Oare and Pewsey, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Pewsey
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 61 cm
Width: 54.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.11

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet SU 11 NW
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet SU 11 NW, six inches to a mile, showing Rockbourne, Hampshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Rockbourne
            County: Hampshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 55 cm
Width: 48.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.8

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet SU 06 NE
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet SU 06 NE, six inches to a mile, showing Beckhampton, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Beckhampton
            Parish: Avebury
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 67 cm
Width: 50.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.4

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet SU 26 NW
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet SU 26 NW, six inches to a mile, showing Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Savernake
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 67 cm
Width: 54.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1517.5

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: Ordnance Survey Sheet SU 16 NE
    Brief Description: Ordnance Survey map, Sheet SU 16 NE, six inches to a mile, showing Marlborough, Wiltshire, 1961

Production:
    Date: 1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Marlborough
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 68 cm
Width: 51 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:903

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: One page of notes relating to John Lucas Willoughby of Mere, undated

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1503

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, West Hill area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: West Hill
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 86 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:895

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: local history
    Title: Uncommon Sensibility In A Horse
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an extract from a book, ‘Wonders Of The Horse’, describing the death of Rev Charles Wager Allix of Mere in 1795, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Allix, Charles Wager
        Person Role: vicar
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 14 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:897

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Photocopied list of leaseholders of the parsonage of Mere from the late 17th and early 18th centuries

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1694
        Date End: 1706
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: parsonage

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:900

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Photocopied list of leaseholders, from the late 17th and early 18th centuries

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1668
        Date End: 1716
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:896

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Gentleman Of War
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Daily Telegraph reporting on the career of John Keegan, Daily Telegraph Defence Editor, of Kilmington, speaker of the 1998 Reith Lectures, 6th April 1998

Production:
    Date: 6.4.1998
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Daily Telegraph

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Keegan, John

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Kilmington
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: manor house
        Site Name: Kilmington Manor
    Event:
        Event Type: lecture
        Event Name: Reith Lectures

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 59.5 cm
Width: 37.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:904

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Scrap of paper with notes relating to folk songs collected in Mere Workhouse, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Laycock, Tim
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: workhouse
        Site Name: Mere Workhouse

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:898

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Photocopied list of people related to the parsonage of Mere, 22nd February 1714

Production:
    Date: 22.2.1714

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

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:901

Identification:
    Object name: list
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Printout list of Mere wills from The National Archives, from the 15th to the 19th century

Production:
    Date: 21.8.2004

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1419
        Date End: 1839
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The National Archives

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:905

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Ashlocke
    Brief Description: One page of notes relating to the 16th century wills of Thomas and Dorothy Ashlocke of Mere, undated

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1555
        Date End: 1562
    Person:
        Person Name: Ashlocke, Thomas
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ashlocke family

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1502

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, Down Farm Downs and area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Down Farm Downs
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 86 cm
Width: 30 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1507

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, Horse Croft Common area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Horse Croft Common
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 40 cm
Width: 24 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1506

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, Whitehill Common area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Whitehill Common
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 27 cm
Width: 58 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1508

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, Lower Park Farm area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: farm
            Site Name: Lower Park Farm

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 28 cm
Width: 52 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1505

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, Barrow Street area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Place Name: Barrow Street
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 53 cm
Width: 29 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1504

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Brittle fragment of Mere tithe map of 1848, Chaddenwick Farm area

Production:
    Date: 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: farm
            Site Name: Chaddenwick Farm

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 76 cm
Width: 39 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:899

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Photocopied list of payments received, possibly rents, 18th century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1700
        Date End: 1799

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:902

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Ings Family
    Brief Description: Page of notes relating to the Ings family of Mere, undated

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1500

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Title: A Map Of West Knoyle In The County Of Wilts
    Brief Description: Copy of a map of West Knoyle, 1736

Production:
    Date: 1736

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: West Knoyle
            County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 69 cm
Width: 100 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:1501

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Photocopied Ordnance Survey map of Mere and surrounding areas, used as a key to the fragmented Mere tithe map of 1848

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Ordnance Survey

Object location:  Box 21

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:880

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Reminiscences Of The Life Of Francis Burchett Rutter
    Brief Description: Booklet entitled ‘Reminiscences Of The Life Of Francis Burchett Rutter’, with a note on the inside cover explaining the ownership of the booklet, a Mrs E J Weakley of Warminster

Production:
    Date: 1932

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Weakley, E, J, Mrs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:893

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A
    Brief Description: Photocopy of the obituary of Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A, taken from the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, 1932

Production:
    Date: 1932
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Ponting, Charles Edwin
        Person Role: architect
    Place:
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Society of Architects
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:894

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper article
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Way Of All Flesh
    Brief Description: Photocopied article from The Sunday Telegraph reporting on butcher and fishmonger Robert Nurden of Mere, 10th May 1992

Production:
    Date: 10.5.1992
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Sunday Telegraph

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Nurden, Robert

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:876

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Mere Mourns One Of Its Best Known Residents
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the death of Albert Henry Avery, builder of Mere, c.1968

Production:
    Date: 1968

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Avery, Albert Henry
        Person Role: builder
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: Congregational Church
    Event:
        Event Type: funeral

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 51 cm
Width: 5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:877

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Charlie Jeans – Innovator And Still Working At 97
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the death of Charlie Jeans of Mere, 3rd January 2003

Production:
    Date: 3.1.2003
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jeans, Charlie

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1906
        Date End: 2003
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 23 cm
Width: 8.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:878

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Exploring Mere
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the opening of the Mere Church Fete by Colonel John Blashford Snell, c. 2009-2010

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2009
        Date End: 2010
    Person:
        Person Name: Head, Michael
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr, Blashford-Snell, John
    Event:

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 9 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:875

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Death of Dr F B Rutter
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Wiltshire Times reporting on the death of Dr Francis Burchett Rutter, 23rd July 1932

Production:
    Date: 23.7.1932
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Francis Burchett

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1869
        Date End: 1932
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 65 cm
Width: 17.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:879

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Reminiscences Of The Life Of Francis Burchett Rutter
    Brief Description: Faded and spotted booklet entitled ‘Reminiscences Of The Life Of Francis Burchett Rutter’, with a note on the inside cover explaining the ownership of the booklet, a Mrs E J Weakley of Warminster

Production:
    Date: 1932

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Weakley, E, J, Mrs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:881

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Scrappy’ Dixon – A Pioneer Of Recycling
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on the retirement of Cecil Dixon of Mere, dealer in scrap metal, c.1999

Production:
    Date: 1999
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Dixon, Cecil

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

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 19 cm
Width: 8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:885

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Order of service for the funeral of Eanswythe Laman of Mere, 11th August 2001

Production:
    Date: 2001

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:891

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Family Party For Lily
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the 100th birthday of Mrs Lily Anna Taylor of Mere, 21st April 1978

Production:
    Date: 21.4.1978
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Taylor, Lily, Mrs, Hall, Amy, Mrs
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: hall
            Site Name: The Grove Building

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

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:892

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Mere Memories
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine featuring memories of Mere, 18th February 1979

Production:
    Date: 18.2.1979
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:886

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: After 44 Years, Evelyn Makes A Clean Sweep
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Journal reporting on the retirement of Evelyn Flower from the Hill Brush Company, 6th September 2001

Production:
    Date: 6.9.2001
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Flower, Evelyn, Mrs

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Philip
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Hill Brush Company
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:883

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: George Is At Home With Council Work
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the election of George Jeans as Salisbury district councillor, c. November 2001

Production:
    Date: 11.2001

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jeans, George

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

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:888

Identification:
    Object name: magazine cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Neglect Fires An Artist’s Mania For Mushrooms
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Countryman reporting on the life of Suzanne Lucas, artist, publicising her exhibition of toadstool paintings for The Society of Botanical Artists in London, May 2001

Production:
    Date: 5.2001
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Countryman

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lucas, Suzanne

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Society of Botanical Artists
    Event:
        Event Type: exhibition

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:889

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: My Magic World Of Mushrooms
    Brief Description: Cutting from West Country Life reporting on the life of Suzanne Lucas, artist, publicising her toadstool paintings , c. May 2001

Production:
    Date: 5.2001
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: West Country Life

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lucas, Suzanne

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Society of Botanical Artists

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 28.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:890

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: On The Trail Of A New Lifestyle
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Journal reporting on the new walking careers of Alison and Dave Howell from Mere, 30th May 2002

Production:
    Date: 30.5.2002
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Howell, Alison, Howell, Dave

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 28.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:887

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Fred Calls It A Day After 75 Years
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Journal reporting on the retirement of Fred Tranter, musical director of Gillingham Imperial Silver Band for 29 years, 17th January 2002

Production:
    Date: 17.1.2002
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Tranter, Fred

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Gillingham Imperial Silver Band
    Event:
        Event Type: retirement

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 18.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:882

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Henrietta, 12, Joins Golfing Elite
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on aspiring golf player, Henrietta Brockway, 1st November 2002

Production:
    Date: 1.11.2002
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Brockway, Henrietta

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18 cm
Width: 9 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:884

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Robert Finan – Every Item Tells A Story
    Brief Description: Cutting from Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on Robert Finan, antiques dealer 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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:857

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Title: Anecdotes of Mere
    Brief Description: Seven pages of typed notes, ‘Anecdotes of Mere’, collected by Dr David Longbourne and given as an informal talk to Mere Historical Society, 15th December 1992

Production:
    Date: 1992
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society
    Event:
        Event Type: lecture
        Event Name: Anecdotes of Mere

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:856.2

Identification:
    Object name: music score
    Classification: recreation
    Classification: performing arts
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a music score, a church chant, composed by Nathaniel Goldsbrough in the second half of the eighteenth century or the first half of the nineteenth century, written down for Albert Goldsbrough in 1877

Production:
    Date: 1877
    Person:
        Person Name: Perman, John
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Goldsbrough, Nathaniel
        Person Role: composer
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:860

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Five pages taken from ‘The Salisbury Medical Bulletin’ relating to John Tatum, eighteenth century surgeon, who resided in Salisbury from 1753 until his death in 1783

Production:
    Date: 10.1976
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Salisbury Medical Bulletin

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Tatum, John

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1724
        Date End: 1783
    Place:
        Parish: Salisbury
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:861

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Tatum Tombstones
    Brief Description: Three pages of typed notes by Dr O S Hart describing the Tatum family, many of whom are buried at St Michael’s Church, Mere, 23rd January 1979

Production:
    Date: 23.1.1979
    Person:
        Person Name: Hart, O, S, Dr
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:862

Identification:
    Object name: transcript
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Transcript Of Letter Given By Standerwick Family
    Brief Description: Two copies of a transcript from a letter given by the Standerwick family, 28th February 1818

Production:
    Date: 28.2.1818

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:859

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Four pages of typed notes relating to the papers of George Bernard Berry, 2006

Production:
    Date: 5.6.2006

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Berry, George Bernard
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:856.1

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Goldsbrough Chant
    Brief Description: Notes by Michael Tighe on the Goldsbrough family of Silton and Mere, specifically Nathaniel Goldsbrough and his composing of church chants, 17th January 2000

Production:
    Date: 17.1.2000
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1716
        Date End: 1877
    Person:
        Person Name: Goldsbrough, Nathaniel
        Person Role: teacher
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Goldsbrough family

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:858

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Fourteen pages of typed notes and analysis of the 1881 census for Mere

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:864

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Sister Rosemary Goddard-An Appreciation
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting of an obituary to Sister Rosemary Goddard of Mere, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Goddard, Rosemary
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 13 cm
Width: 10.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:863

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: local history
    Title: Contented Man On The Green
    Brief Description: Large cutting from the Bristol Evening World featuring an article on Mere, 12th July 1960

Production:
    Date: 12.7.1960
    Person:
        Person Name: Barnes, Max
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Bristol Evening World

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Ford, Archie, Avery, Bert, Avery, Mrs, Burden, Walter, Coward, William

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 42 cm
Width: 33 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:865

Identification:
    Object name: notebook
    Classification: local history
    Title: Mere In The Olden Times
    Brief Description: Bound, brown marbled notebook once owned by T [Thomas] Standerwick, entitled ‘Mere In The Olden Times’, possibly by Unity Edmunds, c.1930’s

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1930
        Date End: 1939

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Standerwick, Thomas
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Standerwick family

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 19 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:868

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: personalia
    Title: David And Goliath
    Brief Description: Photocopied extract, mainly engravings, of ‘David And Goliath’, an article attempting to prove that Newton’s ideas of astrology were wrong, by William Lander of Mere, 1833

Production:
    Date: 1833
    Person:
        Person Name: Lander, William
        Person Role: author

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lander, William

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Newton, Isaac
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:872

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Councillor Resigns
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the resignation of Commander J R Hooper from Mere and Tisbury Rural District Council, 23rd March 1956

Production:
    Date: 23.3.1956
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hooper, J, R, Mr
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere and Tisbury Rural District Council

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:871

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Doctor’s Tireless Work Recognised
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Journal reporting on the award of an MBE to Dr David Longbourne, first curator of Mere Museum, 3rd January 2002

Production:
    Date: 3.1.2002
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Journal

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Museum
    Event:
        Event Type: presentation
        Event Name: MBE

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 12 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:873

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Death Leaves A Gap In Local History
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the death of Miss Alice Rutter of Mere, a leading figure in the life of Mere for many years, 19th February 1988

Production:
    Date: 19.2.1988
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

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

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 32 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:874

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Order of service, and duplicate, for a memorial to Dr F B Rutter in the Congregational Church, Mere, 1932

Production:
    Date: 1932

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1869
        Date End: 1932
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Francis Burchett, Dr
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: Congregational Church
    Event:
        Event Type: service

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 11.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:867

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: One page of handwritten notes concerning specific 19th century dates in the lives of Samuel Lander and Joseph Lander, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lander, Samuel John
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:869

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Letter from H R Bristow to Miss Wright, containing references to the Lander family, 1st January 1975

Production:
    Date: 1.1.1975
    Person:
        Person Name: Bristow, H, R, Mr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wright, Miss
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Lander family

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 18 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:870

Identification:
    Object name: extract
    Classification: personalia
    Title: The Village Genius
    Brief Description: Photocopied extract from ‘Views Of Labour And Gold’ entitled ‘The Village Genius’ by William Barnes, formerly of Mere, 1859

Production:
    Date: 1859
    Person:
        Person Name: Barnes, William
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:866

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Letter from H R Bristow to Miss Rutter, containing references to Samuel Lander, Mr Bristow’s grandfather, 18th June 1967

Production:
    Date: 18.6.1967
    Person:
        Person Name: Bristow, H, R, Mr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lander, Samuel
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 23 cm
Width: 18 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:848

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Title: Cottages At Brush Factory
    Brief Description: Two pages of typed notes relating to the previous history of derelict cottages at the Hill Brush Company, Shaftesbury Road, Mere, 2003

Production:
    Date: 2003

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Hill Brush Company

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:845

Identification:
    Object name: will
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photocopy of the will of William Dodyngton of Mere, 1507

Production:
    Date: 1507
    Person:
        Person Name: Dodyngton, William
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:841

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: society
    Classification: religion
    Brief Description: Order of service for Rogation Sunday at St Matthew’s Church, Mere, 17th May 1998

Production:
    Date: 17.5.1998

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Matthew’s Church
    Event:
        Event Type: service
        Event Name: Rogation Sunday

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:843

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Brief handwritten notes about ‘Bobby’ Bourne of Mere, undated

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Bourne, Bobby
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: The Silk House

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:844

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Mere
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette and its ‘100 Years Ago’ section, reporting on the erection of a memorial tablet in 1872 for Captain Chafyn-Grove of Zeals House by the 8th Wilts Rifle Volunteer Company, 29th September 1972

Production:
    Date: 29.9.1972
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Chafyn-Grove, Captain
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: church
        Site Name: St Michael’s Church
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: 8th Wiltshire Rifle Volunteer Company

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:838

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Two pages of handwritten notes by Michael Tighe relating to the Maggs family of Mere, undated

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

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:840

Identification:
    Object name: certificate
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an Ordinary Share Certificate of 50 pounds for the Wiltshire Silk Manufacturing Company, 1st March 1892

Production:
    Date: 1.3.1892

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Jupe, Isaiah Maggs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Silk Manufacturing Company

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 29 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:836

Identification:
    Object name: receipt
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a receipt for a bill of 403 pounds paid to H H Edmunds and Son, chemists of Mere, 2nd August 1928

Production:
    Date: 2.8.1928

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: H H Edmunds and Son

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:847

Identification:
    Object name: map
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Four pages of tracing paper with pencil-drawn maps relating to various industrial sites around Mere, undated

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:846

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: local history
    Title: The Diamond Jubilee Approach To Castle Hill
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a newspaper article reporting on the new approach to Castle Hill, Mere, built as a memorial to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897

Production:
    Date: 1897

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

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:842

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: E-mail from Fiona [?] to Jenny Sheppard regarding the Brice family of Mere, 6th December 2006

Production:
    Date: 6.12.2006

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Sheppard, Jenny
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Brice family

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:852

Identification:
    Object name: document
    Classification: society
    Classification: government
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a legal document, seventeenth century

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1600
        Date End: 1699

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:853

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photocopy of the inventory of John Hibbard, February 1612

Production:
    Date: 2.1612

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hibbard, John
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 42 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:854

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: local history
    Title: Mere Past and Present
    Brief Description: Two pages from ‘The Visitor’ newspaper featuring an article on Mere, past and present, November 1996

Production:
    Date: 11.1996
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Visitor

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Jim, Cray, Jack, Greenland, Bill, Whitmarsh, Cecil, Whitmarsh, Percy, Alford, Bob, Whitmarsh, Ernie

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 30 cm
Width: 41 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:855

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Rev Henry Wake
    Brief Description: Two typed pages referring to the Rev Henry Wake, vicar of Mere from 1812 to 1845, and a photocopied letter to Rev Wake, undated

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1812
        Date End: 1845
    Person:
        Person Name: Wake, Henry
        Person Role: vicar
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:850

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Four pages of notes and lists from the Domesday Book, relating to Wiltshire landowners

Production:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Domesday Book

Association:
    Place:
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:851

Identification:
    Object name: document
    Classification: society
    Classification: government
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a legal document, possibly from 1635

Production:
    Date: 1635

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 41.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:839

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photocopy of a letter from Isaiah Maggs Jupe concerning the delivery of silk from his mill and a photocopy of the reply from Francis Durant accepting delivery of the silk, 5th October 1894

Production:
    Date: 5.10.1894
    Person:
        Person Name: Jupe, Isaiah
        Person Role: author
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: mill
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Silk Manufacturing Company

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 34 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:837

Identification:
    Object name: article
    Classification: local history
    Title: Liberty of Gillingham
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an article from the Victoria County History mentioning the manor of Milton and Gillingham, undated

Production:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Victoria County History

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Milton Lilbourne
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 35.5 cm
Width: 25 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:849

Identification:
    Object name: inventory
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Photocopy of the inventory of Mary Pride from Mere, 1629

Production:
    Date: 1629

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Pride, Mary
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 20

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:820

Identification:
    Object name: article
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Sir Richard Colt Hoare Of Stourhead
    Brief Description: Ten page article, text of an informal talk given to Mere Historical Society, ‘Sir Richard Colt Hoare Of Stourhead’ written by Dr David Longbourne, March 2001

Production:
    Date: 2001
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Colt-Hoare, Richard
    Place:
        Parish: Stourton with Gasper
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: country house
        Site Name: Stourhead
    Event:
        Event Type: lecture

Object location:  Box 19

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:824

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Amenity Fund Chairman’s Broadside
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on Mere’s amenity fund and its chairman, Mrs Dorothy George, who criticised other members of Mere Parish Council, 11th March 1983

Production:
    Date: 11.3.1983

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: George, Dorothy
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Parish Council

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 17.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:823

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Campaigning Woman Councillor Quits After 28 Years
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the retirement of Mrs Dorothy George as a parish councillor for Mere, 29th April 1983

Production:
    Date: 29.4.1983
    Person:
        Person Name: Wood, Haydon
        Person Role: journalist

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: George, Dorothy

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

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 44.5 cm
Width: 9.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:827

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Forty-one pages of notes and letters of personal memories of VE and VJ Days and life straight after the end of the Second World War, compiled by various residents of Mere, 2005

Production:
    Date: 2005

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Event:
        Event Type: war
        Event Name: World War II

Object location:  Box 19

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:821

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: 18.2.1991
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Times

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: White, Arthur J S
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Regiment
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 19.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:831

Identification:
    Object name: certificate
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Large sepia-coloured certificate from Feathery Flake Self Raising Flour for fourth prize, awarded to Miss Glenys Austin in the cake competition for Mere Temperance Society Exhibition, 19th October 1938

Production:
    Date: 19.10.1938

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Austin, Glenys, Miss
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Victoria Flour Company
    Event:
        Event Type: competition
        Event Name: The Feathery Flake Self Raising Flour Home Made Cake Competition

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 30 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:829

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Classification: maps
    Brief Description: Notes collated from deeds referring to a field near Addymead, Mere, 2002

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

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Price, Rosemary, Mrs
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 19

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:822

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Title: Delivered Bread In Mere For 30 Years
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting reporting on the death of Mrs Dorothy Ford of Mere, 4th March 1983

Production:
    Date: 4.3.1983

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Ford, Dorothy
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: bakery
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:832

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: Handwritten notes and copies of photographs relating to John Hyatt, cabinet maker and pastor who resided in Mere for a short time, c.1797-1800

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Spiers, David
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1797
        Date End: 1800
    Person:
        Person Name: Hyatt, John
        Person Role: cabinet maker
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 19

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:834

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: local history
    Title: Church Registers at Mere
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Western Gazette reporting on the church registers of Mere, 12th August 1955

Production:
    Date: 12.8.1955
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Western Gazette

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:835

Identification:
    Object name: magazine
    Classification: local history
    Title: Mere With West Knoyle And Zeals Parish Magazine
    Brief Description: Parish magazine with an appreciation in memory of Dr Francis Rutter, August 1932

Production:
    Date: 8.1932
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Edmunds and Son

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Francis Burchett, Dr
        Person Role: doctor
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 19

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24 cm
Width: 18.5 cm