There were two chemists shops which went under the name
of Warner. It is not known what connection, if any, there was
between them but they certainly appear in the records as two
quite separate entities.
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This advert, from 1902, shows the shop of M. R.
Warner, MPS, Dispensing and Photographic Chemist, The
Red Cross Pharmacy, 42, Chapel Ash. By the time of
the 1914 Illustrated Review "Mr. Warner has recently
taken his son into the business" and they are going
under the name of Warner and Son. |
| "The stock embraces every description of pure and
fresh drugs and chemicals, all the most noted patent
medicines and proprietary articles, and a splendid
selection of nursery, sickroom and toilet requisites.
An
important department is that devoted to photographic
goods, the stock embracing the most popular cameras, and
the leading productions in plates, papers, and
chemicals. In this connection it may be added that the
firm have a dark room at the service of amateurs. ...
The firm are on the Insurance panel for both borough and
county." |
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The 1914 Review emphasises the photographic side of
the business. This was common enough for chemists
at the time but in Warner's case it was to take over
completely. This advert from 1955 shows how
the firm had, by then, stopped being chemists and had
become a purely photographic business.
They are
well remembered by local photographers and only moved
out in recent years. |
The other company with the Warner name, Charles Warner, developed
a chain of shops and also operated as manufacturing chemists, and it
seems they sold their proprietary remedies beyond their own shops. We have already seen them mentioned in the 1914 Red Book as being in
the Stafford Road and this is clearly the base from which they
expanded.
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The bottle on the right contained malt vinegar. Its label shows the address as 26 Stafford Road and
describes C. M. Warner as "Pharmacist and Photographic
Chemist". The bottle on the left contained
"Ammoniated Elixir of Cinnamon & Quinine" with a dose of
"half to one tea-spoonful in water every three or four
hours".
The address is 106 Stafford Road and
Warner is described simply as "Pharmacist". |
Below are three flyers, undated - and the central
one rather stained. The products are typical of proprietary
remedies and were probably prepared to a standard recipe.
The printed labels below give some idea of the
range of products which Warners would have been selling.
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