Page 25 - Thrapston Life March 2024

GLANCE AT
THE PAST
Eric Franklin looks back
Between 1871 and 1891, Robert Correli Pars from Cambridgeshire was a pharmacist and druggist in the High Street. His business was bought by Joseph Hind Payne from Stamford who lived in Fair Lane
An Edwardian advertising postcard from
J. H. Payne (above) shows a group of ladies surrounding a recent addition to a family with
(now Chancery Lane). He is shown standing outside his premises in this photograph (top left) taken in circa 1905 (from the Hazel Evans Archive).
By 1936 John
Cawdell had taken over the business at 46 High Street
the caption “How Sweet!”. The reverse lists the multitude of products kept in stock for the Nursery. These include:
- “feeding bottles, infants foods, puffs and boxes, soothers, Violet Powder and Fuller’s Earth, waterproof bibs, nipple shields and breast pumps. Crown brand malted food costing 8d a tin; Payne’s teething and cooling powders at 71⁄2d
Payne’s also sold perfumes, one of
which was Floralia Bouquet, the bottle
and cardboard box being shown both
retaining the very strong aroma, as well as developing and printing photographic films (top right). Both items are in my collection of what I term “Thrapstonalia”.
and 1s 11⁄2d; and wind and gripe mixture at 6d a bottle.”.
By 1936 John Cawdell had taken over the business at 46 High Street offering the full
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