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Penrith: Cowper's
Street:-   King Street
locality:-   Penrith
civil parish:-   Penrith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   chemist's
locality type:-   shop
coordinates:-   NY51613009
1Km square:-   NY5130
10Km square:-   NY53


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BOG92.jpg "DISPENSING ... CHEMISTS" (taken 17.10.2007)  

photograph
BVV52.jpg (taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) 
source data:-   Advertisements, ... for Joseph Cowper, chemist, 50 King Street and 23 Main Street, Penrith, Cumberland ... published in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, 1903.
image  click to enlarge
UN1A23.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 1023.48
Image © see bottom of page


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BVV50.jpg  Shop window.
(taken 27.1.2012)  
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BVV51.jpg  Shop window.
(taken 27.1.2012)  

photograph
BVV53.jpg (taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
photograph
BVV54.jpg (taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd

MN photo:-  
The business is long established. Reminders of the former style of business are still to be found in the shop storerooms, where a run of account books from the late 19th century is also kept.

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BVV55.jpg  Old chemist's drawers.
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
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BVV56.jpg  Old chemist's drawers.
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
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BVV57.jpg  Content notes on one of the drawers.
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
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BVV58.jpg  Bottles for Cowper's own preparations.
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
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BVV59.jpg  Old jars.
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
photograph
BVV60.jpg  Jospeh Cowper, 1920s?
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd
photograph
BVV61.jpg  Jospeh Cowper, by H Irving, 1923.
(taken 27.1.2012)  courtesy of Phil Caton, Jospeh Cowper Ltd

person:-   chemist
 : Cowper
date:-   2007

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