MHS Archive entry MHS:4873

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: recreation
    Brief Description: press article and photograph of members of the Castle Hill Quilters, Mere at the unveiling of a quilt depicting everyday life in Mere, which they had made and presented to the town in October 2016. It was unvelied by MP Dr Andrew Murrison and hangs in the Grove Buildings, Mere

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 28.10.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Murrison, Andrew, Dr
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Castle Hill Quilters

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 17 cm
Width: 8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4858

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: press report with photograph of a fire at the former first school in Dark Lane, Mere, which caused major damage, June 1997

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.6.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Lawley, Katharine
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury Journal

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Pester, Richard
        Person Role: policeman
    Place:
        Locality Type: school
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wessex Woodburners

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 23.7 cm
Width: 10.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4874

Identification:
    Object name: press photograph
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: press photograph of the annual carrying of the cross up Castle Hill, Mere on Good Friday, April 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.4.2016
    Person:
        Person Name: Russell, Graham, Mr
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Churches Together inMere and District

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 10.4 cm
Width: 12 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4859

Identification:
    Object name: scrapbook
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: photocopy of entire contents of a notebook contain newspaper cuttings from various papers relating to local affairs in Mere and district. 1969 – 1971, collected by Jack Paul, parish and county councillor for Mere, found March-April 2015 by his son, Jeffery

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.1969
        Date End: 7.10.1971
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Jack

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Paul, Jack
    Place:
        Locality Type: town
        Site Name: Mere

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4875

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: press article from the Blackmore Vale Magazine about a public exhibition in the Grove Buildings, Mere, of plans for upgrading the A303 near Stonehenge, 20.1.2017

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 20.1.2017
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Grayling, Chris, Mr
        Person Role: Transport Secretary
    Place:

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 14.1 cm
Width: 9.2 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4860

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: an account of life in the house called Knaplocks, in Mere, written by John Avery who lived there as a child, 1927 – 1934

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 10.2011
    Person:
        Person Name: Avery, John J.

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Troyte-Bullock,

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4861

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: Mere Historical Society’s Autumn Newsletter, Autumn 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 9.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Grinyer, Tony
        Person Role: editor

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4862

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: Mere Historical Society’s Spring Newsletter, Spring 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 5.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Grinyer, Tony
        Person Role: editor

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4863

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: press report with pictures marking the centenary of the business Jeans of Mere, 1916 – 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 11.11.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

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

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4864

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: recreation
    Brief Description: newspaper report with picture of an exhibition mounted by the Mere & District Railway Modellers, June 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 24.6.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Snook, Tom
    Organisation:

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 11.8 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4865

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Mere Historical Society’s AGM notice and newsletter

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Grinyer, Tony
        Person Role: editor

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4866

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: press account with picture of Mere Spring Fair and Family Fun Day fund-raising event for Southampton Intensive Care Unit and Stars Appeal Little Lives Fund and Salisbury Hospital organised by Louise Bennett of Mere

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 8.4.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Bennett, Louise

Object location:  Box 69

Description:
Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 20.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4867

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: Report on the high demand for places at Mere School because Mere has been described by the Sunday Times as one of the best places to live in the South West of England, with an advertisement for Mere School

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 6.5.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Williamson, Catriona, Mrs
        Person Role: teacher

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 20.8 cm
Width: 20 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4868

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: letter to The Blackmore Vale Magazine written by Mrs Rachel Hyde encouraging readers to visit Mere Museum’s exhibition about the silk trade in Mere in the 19th century, 10th June 2017

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 10.6.2016

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hyde, Rachel, Mrs

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 6.2 cm
Width: 6.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4869

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: press article and photograph about Lindy Elliott of Mere who is a volunteer for the charity Blind Veterans UK

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 13.5.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magaazine

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blind Veterans UK

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 26.7 cm
Width: 4.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4870

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: societies
    Brief Description: Autumn Newsletter of Mere Historical Society with yellow cover, issued in September 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 9.2016

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Grinyer, Tony, Mr
        Person Role: editor

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4871

Identification:
    Object name: service sheet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: service sheet for a celebration of the life of Susan Elizabeth Lou Birch (Sue) held at the church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere on 4th May 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 4.5.2017

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4856

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: warfare and defence
    Brief Description: press report with photographs of a new displays at Stourhead (National Trust) telling the story of Henry Hoare, only child of Sir Henry and Alda Hoare, who died on Christmas Eve 1917

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 21.3.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hoafre, Harry
    Place:
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Stourhead
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: National Trust

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4872

Identification:
    Object name: photographs
    Classification: societies
    Brief Description: two coloured photographs of the interior of the Mere Historical Society’s archive hut in the gallery of the United Reformed church, Mere soon after completion, c.2010

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2010
    Person:
        Person Name: Wilding, Jenny, Dr
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael, Mr
        Person Role: archivist

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 13 cm
Width: 17 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4841

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: newspaper report (with photograph) about the 10th anniversary celebrations at Mere School, October 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 3.10.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Williamson, Catriona
        Person Role: head teacher

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 10 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4842

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: warfare and defence
    Brief Description: report (with coloured photograph) of the Remembrance Parade at Mere, Wilts, November 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 14.11.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Stainer, Carly
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Brownies

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 8.0 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4843

Identification:
    Object name: service sheet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: service sheet for the Funeral and Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Bernard Edwin Howell (2.10.1924 – 5.11.2014) held at the church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere on 21st November 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 21.11.2014

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Manor Brass

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4844

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: short obituary for Bernard Howell, and announcement of his funeral

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 14.11.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blacklmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Howell, Adrienne
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: HMS Faulknor Association

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 8 cm
Width: 4 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4845

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: newspaper advertisement for an exhibition celebrating the work of Sir Harrison Birtwistle of Mere at The Barbican, London on the occasion of his 80th birthday, May 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 5.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Daily Telegraph

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 13.7 cm
Width: 14.0 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4846

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: recreation
    Brief Description: newspaper report that work had begun on a skate park for Mere, February 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 14.2.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wood, Lindsey
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Maverick Industries

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 16 cm
Width: 4.0 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4847

Identification:
    Object name: letter
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: handwritten letter from Dr Michael Plaxton to MHS Archivist (Dr.Jenny Wilding) about the provenance and fate of the Mere Union (workhouse) minute books and about Mere GPs who oversaw the inmates of Mere Union during the 19th century, and other related matters

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2014
    Person:
        Person Name: Plaxton, Michael, Dr

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Francis, Dr
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 15 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4848

Identification:
    Object name: service sheet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: service sheet for the Funeral and Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Hillary Willoughby (24.11.1912 – 22.1.2014) held at the church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere on 28th January 2014. Inside is a biography (second copy) of Mrs Willoughby, see MHS 4849

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.2014

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 15.0 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4849

Identification:
    Object name: printed biography
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: printed biography of Hillary Willoughby (nee Tait), 1912 – 2014, latterly of Mere, Wilts

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.2014

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Willoughby, Jack
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Training College for Nursery Nurses

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4850

Identification:
    Object name: annotated printed sheet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: typed sheet of extracts from Mere Union (workhouse) Guardian MInutes Book of items relating to Mere which are in addition to those items already noted by the compiler, Dr.Michael Plaxton of Mere (see MHS 4851-55) and annotated by him

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2014
    Person:
        Person Name: Plaxton, Michael, Dr

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union (Mere Workhouse)

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 29.7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4851

Identification:
    Object name: typed sheet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: extracts from the minute books of Mere Union (workhouse) made by Dr Michael Plaxton of Mere, 1840-41, relating to inmates (paupers) etc. Also to the need for £2000 to complete the building of the Union

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Plaxton, Michael, Dr

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 29.7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4836

Identification:
    Object name: service sheet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: order of service for the funeral of Douglas Gilmour Lawley of Mere and the Methodist Church, Mere, May 16th 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 16.5.2014

Association:
    Place:
        Locality Type: church

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4852

Identification:
    Object name: typed sheet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: extracts of interest from the Minutes books of Mere Union (workhouse) compiled by Dr Michael Plaxton of Mere, 1880 – 1890

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Plaxton, Michael, Dr

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 27.7 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4837

Identification:
    Object name: service sheet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: service sheet for the Funeral and Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Charles Russell Carpenter (28.6.1927 – 26.4.2014) held at the church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere on May 2nd 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2.5.2014

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4853

Identification:
    Object name: typed sheet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: 3 typed sheets of extracts of interest from the Minutes Books (Ledgers) of Mere Union (workhouse), 1890 – 1895

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29,6 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4838

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: newspaper article, with photograph, about the 70th and final 43rd Wessex Parade in Mere, 13th July 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 25.7.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Traves, Lesley
    Place:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Gillingham Imperial Silver Band
    Event:
        Event Type: war
        Event Name: Battle for Hill 112

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 8.4 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4854

Identification:
    Object name: typed sheets
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: extracts from the minutes books of Mere Union (workhouse) 1836 – 1842 compiled by Dr. Michael Plaxton of Mere, 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Plaxton, Michael, Dr

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4839

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: recreation
    Brief Description: newspaper photographs of the opening of the new skate park in Mere, September 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.9.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Symonds, Kate
        Person Role: Chairman, Parish Council

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 27.3 cm
Width: 12 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4855

Identification:
    Object name: typed sheet
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: extracts from the minutes books of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of Mere Union (workhouse) 1857=1879 and 1865 – 1880, compiled by Dr. Michael Plaxton of Mere, 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Plaxton, Michael, Dr

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Union

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29.6 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4840

Identification:
    Object name: nmewspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: press report from the Blackmore Vale Magazine and coloured photographs of Mere Carnival, September 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.9.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Carnival

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 12 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4825

Identification:
    Object name: service sheet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: service sheet for the joint funerals of Patricia Louise Elizabeth Durkee (10.10.1922 – 27.12.2014) 2014 and Peter John Durkee (12.6.1918 – 19.1.2015) held at The Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Mere on 20th January 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Mere

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21,2 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4826

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: article in the Blackmore Vale Magazine, with photographs about a late 18th-century cottage in Castle St., Mere, offered for sale in 2015. Formerly a saddler’s shop.

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 14.5 cm
Width: 12.6 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4827

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: article with photograph from the Salisbury Journal about the life and death of Jane Lemon MBE, embroiderer, 6.1.2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury Journnal

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Sadlers Wells Theatre Ballet Company

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 17.3 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4828

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: obituary with photographs from The Daily Telegraph about Suzanne Farrington nee Holman (10.10.1933 – 1.3.2015), daughter of Vivien Leigh

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 9.3.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Daily Telegraph

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Leigh, Vivien

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 34 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4829

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: obituary for Colin Edward George Read (1939 – 2015), local farmer and activist in local affairs, who died on March 6th 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 3.4.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Read, Teresa
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: National Farmers’ Union Mere Branch

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4830

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: Newspaper report that planning permission has been granted to the Hill Brush Company Ltd. Mere, to build a new factory on the edge of Mere

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.12.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Colin
        Person Role: director

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 27.3 cm
Width: 4.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4831

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: newspaper review with photograph of a T.V.programme about the night of V.E. day (May 8th 1945) when the Queen (when Princess Elizabeth) and Princess Margaret spent a night incognito among celebrating crowds, 28.4.2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 28.4.2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Donovan, Gerard
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Daily Telegraph

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Rhodes, Margaret

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 10.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4816

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: newspaper article with photograph about the Victorian Christmas Market held in the Square, Mere in aid of Mere Cancer Research, December 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 11.12.2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Russell, Graham
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wood, Lindsay
        Person Role: town clerk

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 5.6 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4832

Identification:
    Object name: typescript of poem
    Classification: fine art
    Brief Description: typescript of a late medieval poem (dated 1630) entitled ‘The Passion of the Fox’ (original in The Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2000
        Date End: 2010

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: de Worde, Wynkyn,

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29,7 cm
Width: 21.1 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4817

Identification:
    Object name: order of service
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: order of service typed on orange paper for the service of thanksgiving for the 1986 Mere Carnival and the unveiling of an inscription on the Clock Tower, Mere, commemorating the opening in 1823 on that site of a school by the poet William Barnes, by the University of Oxford’s Professor of Poetry, Peter Levi, October 12th 1986

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 12.10.1986

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Levi, Peter, Prof.
        Person Role: teacher

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 15 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4833

Identification:
    Object name: illustrated typescript
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: typed copy of part of an illustrated thesis (draft) on marriage patterns, 1775 – 1924 in Stourton, Kilmington and Mere, 2008

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2008
    Person:
        Person Name: Day, Cathy
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Australian National University

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 21.1 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4818

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: domestic
    Brief Description: article (with coloured photographs) from The Times about the garden of his house in Mere,Wilts, of the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle. September 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 13.9.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Sunday Times

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Birtwistle, Harrison, Sir

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 37.5 cm
Width: 22,7 cm

Height: 22,7

Width:
ELSE

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4834

Identification:
    Object name: letter and map
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: service sheet for the Funeral and Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Robert Kerr Montgomery (3.11.1920 – 20.10 2016) held at the church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere on 1st November 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2014
    Person:
        Person Name: Mills, Susan

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Mills, Susan
    Place:
        Locality Type: village
        Site Name: War Memorial

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 42 cm
Width: 29.6 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4819

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: local history
    Title: As I Remember!…
    Brief Description: a booklet (48 pages and cover) containing a memoir by Pat Twiney of Kilmington of her life on Hill Top Farm at Gaer Hill (Gare Hill alt. spelling), Wiltshire

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2014
    Person:
        Person Name: Twiney, Pat
        Person Role: author

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4835

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: press announcement of a talk hosted by The Friends of Mere Museum by Swinnerton about ‘August 2014; the Road to War’ in the Grove Buildings Mere, 21 11 2014, at which a new book about the men from Mere who died in the first world war. Article includes a photograph of 4 volunteers from Mere in August 2014 which features on the cover of the book.

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 21.11.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Event: book launch

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 11.9 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4820

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: societies
    Title: Autumn News /Review 2013
    Brief Description: booklet containing Mere Historical Society’s programme and reports the year 2013

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2013
    Person:
        Person Name: Grinyer, Tony
        Person Role: editor
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lewis, Peter, Rev

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4821

Identification:
    Object name: eulogy
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: typescript of the eulogy read at the funeral of Douglas Lawley (1921 – 2014), lifetime Mere resident, volunteer and activist, written by his daughter Katharine Shearing, May 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 5.2014
    Person:
        Person Name: Shearing, Katharine

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Parish Council

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29,7 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4822

Identification:
    Object name: obituary
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: obituary with photograph for Douglas Lawley (1921 – 2014), lifelong resident of Mere and volunteer in many Mere organisations, printed in the Blackmore Vale Magazine, 9th May 2014

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 9.5.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Maureen
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Drama Society

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4823

Identification:
    Object name: flyer
    Classification: society
    Brief Description: printer flyer advertising a public meeting about the future of the Mere Lecture Hall, and an agenda on the reverse, on February 17th 2014 (?)

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 17.2.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Mere Lecture Hall

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 10.7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4824

Identification:
    Object name: typescript biography
    Classification: personalia
    Title: An Accidental Life; The Memoirs of a Layabout’
    Brief Description: 35-page typed auto-biography of Michael Hannon, Mere resident, 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Hannon, Michael
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Hannon, Ann
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Grapeshot Tours

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4809

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: photograph and sales details for ‘The Chantry’, Mere, offered for sale by Savills, Salisbury

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 11.7.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Savills Salisbury

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 13.4 cm
Width: 20.8 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4810

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: newspaper article about Malcolm Lear, a Mapperton Hill farmer, who discovered that his name had been falsely used to object to a planning application for a Romani gypsy site.

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 30.1.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Lear, Malcolm
    Place:
        Locality Type: farm
        Site Name: Mapperton farm

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 11.7 cm
Width: 11 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4811

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: fine art
    Brief Description: newspaper article with black and white photograph about Walton House Antiques of Mere and the articles they sell, about restoration services they offer for paintings and services in interior design

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 3.8.2012
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Blower, Nigel
        Person Role: conservator
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Walton House Antiques

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 9.2 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4812

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: article from the Blackmore Vale Magazine about the granting of planning permission for the new factory for the Hill Brush Company Ltd of Mere, December 2012

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.12.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Charles
        Person Role: manager
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Hill Brush Factory Ltd

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 4.1 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4813

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Brief Description: page from the Blackmore Vale Magazine advertising the sale of Mere Down House, Mere, with description of the property and photographs

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 13.2.2015

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Strutt & Parker

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 20.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4814

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: newspaper article (and duplicate) with coloured picture of some of the staff of Mere’s Hill Brush Factory at the cutting of the first sod for the new factory to be built at Norwood Park, Mere, December 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 12.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Coward, Philip
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Hill Brush Company Ltd

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 14.6 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4815

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper photograph
    Classification: recreation
    Brief Description: coloured press photograph of ‘The Merry Men of Mere’ singing at Mere’s Victorian Evening held in The Square, Mere before Christmas 2015

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 11.12.2015
    Person:
        Person Name: Russell, Graham
        Person Role: photographer
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 5.4 cm
Width: 11.7 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:6807

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper article
    Classification: archaeology
    Brief Description: article from The Blackmore Vale Magazine about the discovery of a Roman villa with mosaics in Brixton Deverill during building work, April 2016

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Roberts, David, Dr

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:6808

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper obituary
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: obituary (and duplicate) with photographs for Lieutenant-Colonel Bob Montgomery lately of Mere, who died on October 20th, 2016, printed in The Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2016

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 5.11.2016
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Daily Telegraph

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Montgomery, Bob
        Person Role: soldier
    Place:
    Event:
        Event Name: operation Chariot

Description:
Height: 34.6 cm
Width: 24.9 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:6810

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: a booklet celebrating the life of Mrs Alice May Priddy and her work at The Lecture Hall, Mere, including a photograph of Mr and Mrs Priddy, on the occasion of her sudden death in 1961

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 7.1961
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Congregational Monthly

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Riddy, Mr
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Congregational Church

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 28.2 cm
Width: 12.9 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:6811

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: personalia
    Brief Description: booklet of memories of Dr. Francis Burchett Rutter (1869 – 1932) of Mere by members of his family

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1932
        Date End: 1940
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Crown Printiing Works, Mere

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Rutter, Hannah Player

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 22 cm
Width: 14.3 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4806

Identification:
    Object name: printed note
    Classification: warfare and defence
    Brief Description: printed Wiltshire Community History search result about men of the Royal Corps of Signals who were billeted in Mere during the second world war

Association:
    Place:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Grenadier Guards

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 21 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4807

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Brief Description: article (with picture) from the Blackmore Vale Magazine (19.4.2014) about a new viewing platform at Mere’s Farris Candle Factory for visitors to watch candles being made

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.4.2014
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: British and European Candlemakers Federation

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 12 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:4808

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: events
    Brief Description: article from the Blackmore Vale Magazine with coloured photos about Mere’s Church Fete 2015 which was opened by members of Mere Amateur Dramatic Society dressed as King John and his barons

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 19.6.2015
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Fennon, Penny
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Amateur Dramatic Society

Object location:  box 69

Description:
Height: 17 cm
Width: 12 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2056

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Three pages of typed notes, listings of mills in Mere and some associated history, undated

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1950
        Date End: 1999

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

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2057

Identification:
    Object name: testament
    Classification: personalia
    Title: An Examination Of 29 September 1837
    Brief Description: Typed print-out of an ‘examination’, an establishment of parish residence for the poor held by the local Justice of the Peace, this instance for Henry Upham, miller, in 1837, printed 5th December 1993

Production:
    Date: 5.12.1993
    Person:
        Person Name: Yoward, Tony
        Person Role: editor

Association:
    Date:
    Person:
        Person Name: Upham, Henry
        Person Role: miller
    Place:
        Parish: Evercreech
        County: Somerset

Object location:  Box 26A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 56 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2058

Identification:
    Object name: list
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Five pages of typed lists giving information on the owners and history of mills in Bourton and a letter from Tony Yoward to Michael Tighe, 1994

Production:
    Date: 24.2.1994
    Person:
        Person Name: Yoward, Tony
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Bourton
        County: Dorset
        Locality Type: mill
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Maggs family

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2059

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Three maps and two pages of typed notes relating to the evidence of a tucking mill at Mere by Michael Tighe, 13th October 1994

Production:
    Date: 13.10.1994
    Person:
        Person Name: Tighe, Michael
        Person Role: author

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

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2060

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Title: Found – The West Knoyle Windmill
    Brief Description: Correspondence and notes by Michael Tighe relating to a windmill at West Knoyle, 1995

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

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Freke, Lesley, Mrs
        Person Role: archaeologist
    Place:
        Parish: West Knoyle
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: windmill

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2045

Identification:
    Object name: list
    Classification: local history
    Title: Names Around Mere
    Brief Description: Page, and duplicate, of local place names around Mere with suggestions of the origin and meaning of the names

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Chandler, John
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2061

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Title: Ancient Mill Technology May Be Harnessed For Future Energy Needs
    Brief Description: Cutting from the Blackmore Vale Magazine reporting on a feasibility study for the installation of a hydro-electric turbine at Hinks Mill, Mere, 30th July 2004

Production:
    Date: 30.7.2004
    Person:
        Person Name: Fricker, Liz
        Person Role: journalist
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Blackmore Vale Magazine

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Wheaton-Green, Keith, Wheaten-Green, Tiffany, White, David, Murrison, Andrew, Burroughs, Stephen, Cockarill, Vanessa
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: mill
            Site Name: Hinks Mill

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: South Somerset District Council

Object location:  Box 26A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2046

Identification:
    Object name: photocopy
    Classification: science and technology
    Classification: motive power
    Title: Maiden Bradley Waterwheel Working At Kew Museum
    Brief Description: Photocopy of an article reporting on a waterwheel, once located in Maiden Bradley, and relocated to Kew Bridge Steam Museum, undated

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1970
        Date End: 1999

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2062

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: local history
    Title: Mere Forest Charity Minute Book
    Brief Description: Mere Forest Charity Minute Book, 1881-1935

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1881
        Date End: 1935
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Forest Charity

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 27A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: cm
Width: cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2047

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: local history
    Title: In A Wiltshire Hamlet
    Brief Description: Cream coloured booklet, ‘In A Wiltshire Hamlet’ by Sidney John Smith, 1993

Production:
    Date: 1993
    Person:
        Person Name: Smith, Sidney John
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Family History Society

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Bishops Cannings
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2063

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: local history
    Brief Description: Register of the deeds relating to the ‘disfforested’ lands allocated for the benefit of the poor of Mere, Wiltshire, and Mere trustees account of the forest lands, undated

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1800
        Date End: 1899

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 27A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: cm
Width: cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2048

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: local history
    Title: Sherborne Silk Mills And Marglass
    Brief Description: Booklet, ‘Sherborne Silk Mills And Marglass’ by Elizabeth Cockburn, 1991, taken from a lecture given to Sherborne Historical Society, 29th March 1984

Production:
    Date: 4.1991
    Person:
        Person Name: Cockburn, Elizabeth
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Date:
    Place:
        Parish: Sherborne
        County: Dorset
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Sherborne Historical Society
    Event:
        Event Type: lecture
        Event Name: Sherborne Silk Mills And Marglass

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:6806

Identification:
    Object name: printed note
    Classification: warfare and defence
    Brief Description: printout of computer search results for men of the Royal Corps of Signals based in Mere, Wilts, with information of other military units which occupied the camp which was built near Manor Farm, Mere during WWII.

Content:
    Organisation:

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2049

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: local history
    Title: Medieval Windmills In South-Western England
    Brief Description: Booklet, ‘Medieval Windmills In South-Western England’ by C J Bond, 1995

Production:
    Date: 1995
    Person:
        Person Name: Bond, C, J
        Person Role: author
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Society For The Protection Of Ancient Buildings

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: East Knoyle
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Wind And Watermill Section

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2050

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: local history
    Title: The Castleton Water Wheel
    Brief Description: Typed page of notes giving the history of the Castleton Water Wheel, Sherborne, Dorset, by R Pountain, late 1980’s

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1985
        Date End: 1989
    Person:
        Person Name: Pountain, R
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Sherborne
        County: Dorset
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Castleton Water Wheel Restoration Society

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2051

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Title: A Guide To The Industrial Archaeology Of Wiltshire
    Brief Description: Book, ‘A Guide To The Industrial Archaeology Of Wiltshire’, edited by M C Corfield, 1978

Production:
    Date: 1978
    Person:
        Person Name: Corfield, M, C
        Person Role: editor
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Library and Museum Service

Association:
    Place:
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Archaeological And Natural History Society

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2052

Identification:
    Object name: book
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Title: Industrial Archaeology In Wiltshire
    Brief Description: Book, ‘Industrial Archaeology In Wiltshire’, edited by K G Ponting, c.1971

Production:
    Date: 1971
    Person:
        Person Name: Ponting, K, G, Mr
        Person Role: editor

Association:
    Place:
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wiltshire Archaeological And Natural History Society

Object location:  Box 26A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 19 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2053

Identification:
    Object name: journal
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Title: Wiltshire Industrial Archaeology
    Brief Description: Booklet, ‘Wiltshire Industrial Archaeology’, the journal of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Industrial Archaeology Society, edited by John Sawtell with an article on William Lander of Mere by H R Bristow, 1971

Production:
    Date: 1971
    Person:
        Person Name: Sawtell, John
        Person Role: editor
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Industrial Archaeology Society

Association:
    Place:
        County: Wiltshire

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2054

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Ten pages of typed notes and illustrations relating to Sturminster Newton Mill, undated

Production:
    Person:
        Person Name: Musto, John
        Person Role: artist

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Sturminster Newton
            County: Dorset
            Locality Type: mill
            Site Name: Sturminster Newton Mill

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Fiddleford
        County: Dorset
        Locality Type: mill
        Site Name: Fiddleford Mill

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2055

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: environment
    Classification: buildings
    Brief Description: Two pages of handwritten notes and plans, possibly by David Spiers, and a black and white photograph of Hinks Mill, Mere, undated

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

Content:
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire
            Locality Type: mill
            Site Name: Hinks Mill

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2040

Identification:
    Object name: booklet
    Classification: domestic
    Classification: housecraft
    Title: Instructions In Housecraft
    Brief Description: Booklet produced by the Girls’ Friendly Society, ‘Instructions In Housecraft’, 1929

Production:
    Date: 1929
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Girls’ Friendly Society

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Girls’ Friendly Society

Object location:  Box 26A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18 cm
Width: 12.5 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2025

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: environment
    Classification: nature
    Title: Blizzard Death Boy Feared Snow
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on the death from exposure to a blizzard of Mark Meyer, Mere, 25th December 1981

Production:
    Date: 25.12.1981
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Meyer, Mark
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
        Locality Type: house
        Site Name: Down Cottage
    Event:
        Event Type: death

Object location:  Box 26A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 14 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2041

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: society
    Classification: health and social services
    Title: The Doctors Of Mere
    Brief Description: Fourteen pages of notes concerning the doctors of Mere, given as a talk to the Mere Historical Society by Dr David Longbourne, December 1997

Production:
    Date: 12.1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2026

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: society
    Classification: health and social services
    Title: Have A Heart – It’s A Joke
    Brief Description: Cutting from The Western Gazette reporting on the presentation of a defibrillator to Dr David Longbourne and Dr Bill Price of Mere, 9th December 1988

Production:
    Date: 9.12.1988
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: The Western Gazette

Content:
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr, Price, Bill, Dr, Coward, Chris, Mr
    Place:
            Parish: Mere
            County: Wiltshire

Association:
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Resuscitation Fund
    Event:
        Event Type: presentation

Object location:  Box 26A

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 24 cm

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2042

Identification:
    Object name: notes
    Classification: society
    Classification: health and social services
    Title: The Doctors Of Mere
    Brief Description: Ten pages of notes concerning the doctors of Mere, which was given as a talk by Dr David Longbourne to the Mere Historical Society, edited by Michael Tighe, 1997

Production:
    Date: 1997
    Person:
        Person Name: Longbourne, David, Dr
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Historical Society

Object location:  Box 26A

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

 

 

MHS Archive entry MHS:2027

Identification:
    Object name: correspondence
    Classification: society
    Classification: health and social services
    Brief Description: Handwritten letter from Muriel Carter, treasurer of the Mere Resuscitation Fund, to Miss Taber about the monetary target of the Fund, Mere, 22nd February 1988

Production:
    Date: 22.2.1988
    Person:
        Person Name: Carter, Muriel
        Person Role: author

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Taber, Miss
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Mere Resuscitation Fund

Object location:  Box 26A

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