Old Pharmacy in Burnley

[ClaretTony]

Does anyone remember this building?

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[giveusaB]

I think it was at the mitre Accrington Rd/Padiham Rd junction.

[ClaretTony]

I think it was at the mitre Accrington Rd/Padiham Rd junction.

It was and was just about to be demolished 50 years ago. It was an iconic and well known building in town. Spotted it in an old Burnley Express this morning from October 1973.

[giveusaB]

Loads of great pictures around Burnley in the 60s & 70s

http://oldburnley.blogspot.com/p/padiham-road.html

[DCWat]

It was and was just about to be demolished 50 years ago. It was an iconic and well known building in town. Spotted it in an old Burnley Express this morning from October 1973.

Not more iconic than the floodlights though, surely!?

[jsclaret]

I seem to remember the chemists used to have very large bottles of coloured liquid in the window

[ClaretTony]

I seem to remember the chemists used to have very large bottles of coloured liquid in the window

I think it did

[longhair]

Did this chemist have anything to do with Barlows herbalist on Standish Street,still there but under third? Owner

[MeeActon1]

I seem to remember the chemists used to have very large bottles of coloured liquid in the window

Barlow’s from the inside looking out.

Picture from Burnley Civic Trust Archive

[gawthorpe_view]

There was a doctor's surgery very close by.
A stone detached house facing the Barracks Station.
Dr. P.C. Lala was the last in residence I think.

[Rowls]

I seem to remember the chemists used to have very large bottles of coloured liquid in the window

https://www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-chemists.htm

[Clovius Boofus]

Here in the UK, many pharmacies struggled when the 1920 Dangerous Drugs Act was brought in. Before the Act, you could walk in and buy a whole host of concoctions that were primarily made up from opium, cannabis and cocaine. There were no restrictions. I once read a book about 'high' Victorians/Edwardians. It's certainly an interesting history.

[Claretnick]

There was a doctor's surgery very close by.
A stone detached house facing the Barracks Station.
Dr. P.C. Lala was the last in residence I think.

In the early 60's my mum worked as a receptionist in that surgery/house for Dr Gray before he emigrated to Tasmania.
I have memories of being in the back garden of the house watching the steam trains pull out of Burnley Barracks Station.

[ClaretTony]

There was a doctor's surgery very close by.
A stone detached house facing the Barracks Station.
Dr. P.C. Lala was the last in residence I think.

I read the first line of your post and the name Dr Lala came straight into my head, and I'm sue you are correct. His son was in the same year as me at Burnley GS and there were lads called Nazar Shar and Richard Lee in our year too. Was it the Small Faces who sang Shah Lala Lee?

[gawthorpe_view]

Prescriptions from Dr Lala were dispensed at Barlow's chemist, and I remember clearly the bottles of coloured water around the inside of the pharmacy as well as in the windows.
Glass jars with liquorice root and coltsfoot also, plus a large wire stand with every variety of Heinz baby food imaginable.
Strange what sticks in your memory sometimes.

[Guitargeorge]

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[sjb]

Loads of great pictures around Burnley in the 60s & 70s

http://oldburnley.blogspot.com/p/padiham-road.html

In that 2nd picture down there is a shop named 'Gordon Haigh.' I imagine that may be the same Gordon Haigh who played 18 times for The Clarets after the 2nd World War? I know he returned to the area after spells with Bournemouth & Watford and died in Nelson at the age of 90.

[J_Grimshaw]

our family lived in the flat above that chemist for a short while in the mid fifties before moving south. I subsequently grew up in west London, acquiring a west London accent and have spent the rest of my life explaining why l am a Burnley fan talking like wot l do.

[FigSlice]

Is there a scene in the film "A Kind of Loving", where the Alan Bates character goes into a chemist to buy "something for the weekend" but is too embarrassed to make the purchase because he is served by the shop girl? My mum said that was filmed at Barlow's chemist.

[sjb]

Is there a scene in the film "A Kind of Loving", where the Alan Bates character goes into a chemist to buy "something for the weekend" but is too embarrassed to make the purchase because he is served by the shop girl? My mum said that was filmed at Barlow's chemist.

Very possibly - the scene where Bates & June Richie go to look at a flat with a shared bathroom was filmed on Ormerod Road.

[Summerseat Claret]

Loads of great pictures around Burnley in the 60s & 70s

http://oldburnley.blogspot.com/p/padiham-road.html

You've made my day posting that: those pictures were taken by my grandad, William Green. Apparently he realised that the town was going to undergo massive changes in the 60s and 70s and he wanted a record of the town that he knew growing up.

My dad transferred them from slides to pictures a few years ago and one of his old school friends, a chap called Bill Stuart, posted them on YouTube where they have had over 60,000 views.

[Eloise Laws]

When talking about the town centre works/roundabout with my 80+ year old mum the other day, she was saying before the roundabout was there, there was a large pub that split the road in two??? but she couldn’t remember the name of it? Can anyone??.
The roundabout has always been there in my memory
TIA

[MeeActon1]

When talking about the town centre works/roundabout with my 80+ year old mum the other day, she was saying before the roundabout was there, there was a large pub that split the road in two??? but she couldn’t remember the name of it? Can anyone??.
The roundabout has always been there in my memory
TIA

It was the Yorkshire Hotel. My parents had their wedding reception there in 1958, not long before it closed.

[Eloise Laws]

Ah brilliant. Thanks, I can show her the photograph too.
I love that you can get answers to most things on this board
Thanks MeeActon1

[ClaretTony]

I just saw the Barlow's pic yesterday - what a brilliant thread it has been

[sandy richardson]

Yorkshire Hotel might be on this footage from late 1940s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0J7y9oxSU

Well worth a look anyway.