Thompson's Chemists
This chemists bottle was donated to us anonymously at our Open Meeting on The 1950s in May 2019.
The front label reads:
CONCENTRATED
ESSENCE OF RENNET
FOR EXPEDITIOUSLY MAKING
CURDS & WHEY
ALSO FOR CURDLING MILK
in the Manufacture of
CHEESE CAKES & CHEESE
DIRECTIONS FOR USE
For CURDS & WHEY - To onequart of cold new milk add one teaspoonful of
the Essence and put the vessel containing it in a basin of boiling water.
N.B. MILK, when made more than LUKE WARM loses its curding properties.
C. N. THOMPSON
Dispensing Chemist,
45, Baslow Road,
Totley Rise, SHEFFIELD.
The back label reads:
CONTENTS
3
FLUID OUNCES
The label on the bottom reads:
ESS
RENNET
Charles Noel Thompson was born in Liverpool on 17 December 1909 and baptised at St. Barnabas Church, Penny Lane, Mossley Hill on 17 February the following year. He was the only son of Alexander Thompson, a cashier in the wine trade, and his wife Louisa, née Lang. On 2 April 1911 the family lived at 61 Brookdale Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.
Charles was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and had become qualified as a Member of the Pharmaceutical Society prior to his marriage to Edna Maud Marshall at St. Peter's Church, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on 19 September 1934. Born in 1907, Edna was the third daughter of Thomas Cropper Marshall, a railway engine stoker, and his wife Annie Eliza née Pykett. We have found that Charles and Edna had at least one child, daughter Shirley being born on 31 August 1935.
It is not known when the Thompson Family came to live in our area but at the time of the 1939 National Register they were living at 22 Totley Lane, Bradway. From advertisements in the Totley All Saints' Church Parish Magazine we can can see that Charles Thompson ran the chemists shop at 45 Baslow Road from 1948 until to around 1963 when it was taken over by William Burton.
Edna Thompson died in 1958 and three years later Charles married Janet May Loukes at St. Swithin's Church, Holmesfield. After leaving Totley Charles took over F. Elliott's chemists in Chesterfield until he was forced to retire due to ill health. Charles Noel Thompson died in Sheffield on 12 June 1996 aged 86.