Merehistoricalsociety.org.uk Website Review

since its founding in 1972, mere historical society has been encouraging the study of history in general and of mere and district non-members are welcome to attend the talks on payment of £3. at its first meeting in mere library (right) on 20th april 1972, more than 80 people enrolled, paying an annual subscription of 50p. now more than 40 years on, the society has a membership in excess of 100. that meeting grew out of the work of an ad-hoc local history committee, who had researched, written and published ‘the story of mere’ (blackmore press, 1958). the original committee members were: miss joyce rutter, mrs norah rutter, mr fenton rutter, mrs christine wallis, mrs ethel m. morris, to get a flavour of what the society is doing now, click on ‘what’s on’ above for full programme of events for the current search our online archive catalogue the digitised catalogue of our archives is now on line. enter your search terms in the box at the top of this page to find items of interest in the mhs archive. for more details about searching the catalogue and accessing the archive, go to the archive page. morning talks 10:30am (coffee is served from 10:15am): a donation of £3 asked of non-members for morning talks november 13:  alberto bioletti, soldier of napoleon and master clockmaker of wincanton by john baxter december 11:  55 years fighting rust by ian dean january 8 2019: the frome cheese fair by philip cary february 5 2019:  it wasn’t just alan turing by hamish bell march 5 2019:  dunster force by peter landymore evening talks 7:30pm a donation of £3 asked of non-members for evening talks december 4:  the death of gordon of khartoum by david baker 12th march 2019:   nathaniel ireson of wincanton, architect, the banner image at the top is from a 19th-century engraving of the market house (and surrounding inns and shops) in the square, mere, in about 1860. the market house fell into ruins and was demolished in 1863, to be replaced by the present clock tower in 1868.