
A picture postcard, one of many printed and sold by the Mere photographer Frederick Holmes, showing a lightning strike at Mere on 13th. May, 1906. The photograph won a prize.

A poster advertising Evening Penny Readings to be held in The National School Room, Mere on January 18th., 1864. The readings were often interspersed by piano and vocal solos.

A poster to advertise a meeting in the Lecture Hall Mere in 1879 to consider the destitute state of Negroes in America.

A poster printed by H.H.Edmunds of Mere for a public meeting in The National Schoolroom, Mere in 1893 in protest against Home Rule for Ireland.

An elaborately designed and colourful programme issued for the events in Mere to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

A colourful programme issued for events in Mere to celebrate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.

A poster advertising a Whist Drive at The Parish Hall, Zeals in aid of The Red Cross Agricultural Fund in 1944. Tickets were priced at 1/6d. and there was a sale of poultry and produce after the whist drive.