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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.
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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.
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A poster to advertise a meeting in the Lecture Hall Mere in 1879 to consider the destitute state of Negroes in America.
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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.
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An elaborately designed and colourful programme issued for the events in Mere to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.
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A colourful programme issued for events in Mere to celebrate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.
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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.