New Pharmacy building in Newtown
The pharmacy has now moved around the corner to new premises in Old Station Court opposite the Co op. This is a win, win move giving more interior space, better parking for patients /delivery vehicles and closer to the Health Centre.
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Unfortunately no news on the long awaited new Health Centre apart from that the existing building has been sold and Doctors are now tenants !
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Unfortunately no news on the long awaited new Health Centre apart from that the existing building has been sold and Doctors are now tenants !
John McDougall (Pharmacist)
Rosemary McDougall (Pharmacist) Contact Details:Eildon Pharmacy Ltd Old Station Court Newtown St Boswells TD6 0PB Tel: 01835 823732 Fax: 01835 82 |
Photo below of John and some of his team |
A few memories supplied by Douglas Rob village historian
Douglas Robb's grandfather, William Hunter, was the chemist at Newtown after being at Earlston. He had been asked to take over the Butcher shop which had belonged to Mr. Wood of Tweedside Road in 1932. Nancy Henderson helped in the shop. Mr. Hunter always held the cork or the top of a bottle in the palm of his hand when holding a phial. He would make up his own hair cream and even made lipstick during the war years.
There was no electricity in the shop, only gas lamps. The glass was removed, gas turned on at the bottom, lit by a match and glass put back on. Can you see the hole on the wall on the second shelf in the drawing? This was to observe anyone in the shop while Mr. Hunter was working in the back.
Douglas Robb used to watch his grandfather and Nancy Henderson making up powders. They would lay out 10 or 12 papers at a time, grinding up the medicine into powder in a bowl, measuring it onto the papers using a spatula and then folding the papers. He used aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine for the powders.
William Hunter worked until he was 80, retiring in 1954 when he sold the shop to William Bain in 1955 who, kept it until his retiral in 1992.
Sketch by Douglas
Mr Hunter's Obituary