There has been a pharmacy on this site since at least 1856 and the business has changed hands just 12 times in the following 150 years.
Pharmacists through the years
1856 - 1870 Josiah Oliver
1870 - 1879 Edwin Shrivell
1879 - 1891 Frederick Shrivell
1891 - 1903 Richard Griffiths
1903 - 1909 William Hailstone* and Thomas Knight
1909 - 1913 Frank Sanderson
1913 - 1933 Frederick Hinks
1933 - 1946 Percy White
1946 - 1949 Clifford Hunt
1949 - 1966 Tecwyn Bowen
1966 - 1976 Winifred Bowen (no relation to Tecwyn!)
1976 - 1996 John Jardine (joined by Chris Nicholls in 1991)
1996 - Chris and Manda Nicholls
* William Hailstone subsequently left the pharmacy to become the dentist and postmaster