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Description: | This shop at 5, Market Place later became better known as Cherrington's Chemist Shop. The proprietor of the shop at the time of the photograph, Frederick March, is pictured here with some of his staff. There has been a chemist shop on this site as early as 1780 with George Cherrington becoming an apprentice at the business in 1882. The tennant in 1780 was George Stevenson, 'Druggist'. The building was part of the Duke of Newcastle's Estate and Stevenson paid an annual rent of £120. The next known tenant was Thomas Carpan who was probably Stevenson's apprentice and had taken over the business following Stevenson's death. Successive generations of the Carpan family then held the tenancy for the next 44 years. In 1851, William John Carpan having no heir, the business passed to William March who has served his apprenticeship in Stamford and gained experience in Paris and Boulogne. Once he had returned from France he became an assistant in an important establishment in the West End of London where he used to dispense medicines for the Duke of Wellington. March bought the tenancy of 5, Market Place and in 1882 took on George Cherrington, a former veterinary surgeon from Stamford, as his apprentice. In 1887 Cherrington became the sole proprietor and the firm of G W Cherrington was born. Many changes took place whilst the business was held by the Cherringtons. The cellars beneath the shop were converted to house barrels of port and sherry which customers could buy over the counter siphoned off into their own bottles. In a warehouse further down Chain Lane the Cherringtons manufactured their own soda and mineral waters, as well as their own paint and distemper. A profitable sideline was also carried on in manufacturing veterinary preparations such as sheep dip and horse powders. In the early years of the 20th century, Cherringtons was one of the few places where Newark motorists could obtain their petrol. The shop closed in 1993. | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | Shaw, N | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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