Hayle

 

 

Palmer

 

A lone bottle marked simply ‘Dr Palmer’ has been recovered from a dump in Hayle, being of a fairly late form it would appear to be likely that it is related to Dr Walter Henry Palmer MB BS of Brookvale, Hayle. Dr Palmer is recorded in the 1939 trade directory and no other doctors of the name appear in earlier directories for Cornwall.

 

 

Bottle marked ‘Dr Palmer’

 

 

 

Detail of bottle marked ‘Dr Palmer’

 

 

Uren

 

Ernest Frederick Uren operated from premises in Copperhouse between 1893 and some time after 1906, from at least 1914 to 1926 he was operating from Fore St, Hayle. He seems to have left few traces of his operations.

 

 

Uren label

 

 

Wakeford

 

Rupert William Wakeford appears to have taken over the operations of Ernest Frederick Uren although some confusion appears in the trade directories. The 1939 trade directory lists him at Uren’s premises in Fore St, Hayle. However, the bottle and slide below show him at Uren’s Copperhouse premises which are last listed as occupied by Uren in 1906 but Wakeford is not listed at all until 1939.

 

 

Magic lantern slide advertising Wakeford

 

 

 

Bottle marked RW Wakeford late Uren

 

 

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