Pharmaceutical and Dispensing Chemists

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2025.64
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Pharmaceutical and Dispensing Chemists
Scope and content: This archive contains items from various chemists, pharmacists, or druggists in the vicinity of Antrim and Down. Businesses from Lisburn include R.L. Chambers, Johnston's Pharmacy, C.V. Bolton, and G.S. Anderson and from Belfast: T. McMullan & Co., Ltd., Castlereagh Road, Blake's Surgical Store, Chichester Street, R. Andrew, Crumlin Road, Ulster Chemists Ltd., Grosvenor Road, George & John Kirk, Newtownards Road and McGowan and Ingram, Ann Street. The archive contains dispensary labels for products such as oils, creams, liquid paraffin, cough medicine, sulphur, tonics, and powders. There are also order forms, invoices, shop installation specifications, price lists of drugs with one inscribed "David Henderson Craigtara, Holywood," and a County Borough of Belfast Tuberculosis Department formulary of methylated spirits prescriptions with a list of names.