A. H. Haddon’s dark olive green leather note book with recipes and notes
| Number | AMHAM: DOC. 829.9 |
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| About this object | Haddon’s the Chemists, was at 38 High Street, Old Amersham. It was run by Albert Haddon who came to Amersham in October 1892, just as the expansion of the Metropolitan Line railway began. By 1910, with business growing, a new shop front was installed which can still be seen today. The pharmacy offered wines, spirits, stationery and fancy goods, as well as local postcards from Haddon’s own negatives. Services offered were extended to included an optician and a London dentist who visited once a week for the extraction of teeth. |
| Physical Description | The note book is 17cm long and 11.5cm in width. It has a dark olive leather cover and contains recipes and notes. Its cover has some damage, scuffing on the front and back and tears along the spine. This might indicate that the notebook was heavily used. Several of the pages within are now foxed. The pages of the notebook are lined with red vertical margins. The notes are handwritten in ink and the handwriting is cursive. There are some printed recipes that have been pasted into the book. The notes include recipes for lavender water, cold cream and a soothing syrup for children. The book reflects the breadth of the Haddons pharmacy services, with further recipes for salad dressing, furniture paste and tooth polishing. There are typed recipes for a cold and influenza mixture, a pine inhalant and wild cherry cough balsam. These list much larger quantities where the recipes were made up and bottled in Haddons branded bottles for sale at the pharmacy. |
| Find Out More | The Old Pharmacy - Amersham Museum 32-38 High St - Amersham Museum |