Two views of Wm, Salmon and Co, dispensing chemists on the corner of Garbutt Street and Victoria Terrace (now Norton Road), Stockton.
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Two views of Wm, Salmon and Co, dispensing chemists on the corner of Garbutt Street and Victoria Terrace (now Norton Road), Stockton.
Scott Riddell was over the other side of Norton Road from here as I used to go there as a child. He saved my arm from a very serious fall on a fire I had. My mother said it was rather nasty and had to apply jelonet dressings and remove them with tweezers. I have no scars so he did an excellent job.
There was a company that used to have offices above this shop in the 1960s called Henry Mortons which sold vouchers on credit a bit like the Provident. I remember my mother would purchase some for my school shoes and uniform.
Yes, I belive that Dr Harkness was the senior partner, and I think Scott Riddell would have joined in the late thirties. Scott Ridell was quite a decent doctor, but unfortunately in these pre-National Health days he misdiagnosed the effects of a fall I had as an infant. As a result I have a permanently weak shoulder. An X-ray would have shown what was wrong, but at that time would have been too expensive. I only began to get proper treatment after the NHS came into being in 1948
There were a number of doctor’s surgeries and dentists in this part of Norton road. Ours was run by Dr Riddell, a Scotsman. I recollect a house vist from him in 1960 when I went down with hepatitis. No cure in those days just rest.
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A few weeks After I “recovered” I went on the Stockton Grammar three mile, all school, cross country run. Most unwise. Hepatitus leaves one in a very weakened condition for months after wa
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Was it Dr Scott Riddell and Dr Harkness’s surgery who were on the other side of Norton Road to the Chemist shop?
Passed by this shop many times on way to school at Bailey Street when it was Salmons, the mother of my friend Avril Wilson (name of mother was Eva) was the cleaner there for a time. There was a fruit shop just round the corner in Garbutt Street.
This was the chemist we used after a visit to Dr. Walsh. Lovely guy, though the stuffed birds in their glass domed cases used to scare me !
I can remember when this chemist was called Middlemass and there was a Pet shop next door.