A pharmacy …. a heap of praise …… and a bit of history

We all have our favourite shops.  

Beech Road Pharmacy 2022

They are ones which are rooted in the community, and whose loss would leave a hole in where we live.

Now, I have lived on Beech Road for almost half a century, and I have seen shops come and go.

Some were here when I arrived, others appeared, promised much, and disappeared with little to mark their passing.

But then there have been those which are still fondly remembered and some which still do the business. *

All of which is a lead into The Beech Road Pharmacy.

In the long history of dispensing chemists on Beech Road it follows on from Joy Seal and Harry Kemp which takes us back through the last century to 1901.

Shopping on Beech Road, 1900-2021

And my reason for selecting it lies very much in the professionalism of the staff and the service they offer which extends to the routine of prescriptions and medical advice to the help they have shown to my Italian mother-in-law.

In an age of online communication which make it difficult to talk to someone it is always reassuring when you get that personal assistance.

Of course, there will be plenty of other chemist shops which people will claim do the same, but ours does the business and like us is on  Beech Road and that is enough.

Location; Beech Road

Picture; Beech Road Pharmacy, courtesy of their facebook site, and shopping on Beech Road, 1900-2021, from the collections of Lawrence Beedle, Tony Walker, the Lloyd Collection and the collection of Andrew Simpson

*Muriel & Richard’s green grocery shop, Buonissimo run by Bob and Del Amato, Etchell’s, The Lead Station, Sunflowers, Marcell Materials, along with the Pet shop, Richardson’s and Dave the Butcher. It is of course a personal selection to which other’s will add their own to the list.