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Title: Woodward chemist
Post by: sandra c on Monday 31 July 17 15:29 BST (UK)
Hi .
    Please can someone help my 11 year old grandson. When he was out the other day he found a bottle in the stream that runs through Ackworth in West Yorkshire. It is black and on it is the following Woodward Chemist Nottingham. He look on the internet to find  out about it , he found someone called Leonard Woodward. He was asking is the bottle very old and is Woodward still there Thank you
Title: Re: Woodward chemist
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 31 July 17 16:08 BST (UK)
There's a blue one here:
http://www.bobsbits.tv/bits/bfg0026

And a clear one here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/245302120/antique-bottle-woodwards-chemist

And another here:
http://www.oldstuff.org.uk/ourshop/prod_2158208-Victorian-Woodward-Chemist-Blue-Bottle.html


William Woodward invented Gripe Water, who bought a business in Nottingham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripe_water
Title: Re: Woodward chemist
Post by: sandra c on Tuesday 01 August 17 15:48 BST (UK)
Hi
    KGarrad Thank you for the information . We are going to read up about William Woodward on Thursday when he is with me for the day