Inside the Huddersfield medicine factory that you may not know even existed

[Northerner]

For years the pharmaceutical heritage of Huddersfield was hard to forget.

After all, the town’s football stadium was named after local drugs firm Galpharm.

The company has since upped sticks to Nottingham and Linthwaite cough medicine specialists Thornton and Ross are the highest profile medicine firms in these parts.

But did you know Huddersfield Royal Infirmary has its own unit producing gallons of creams, liquids for injections and a host of other key potions and pills?

The facility has been there more than 50 years and is not only producing pharmaceuticals for Huddersfield but for hospitals across Yorkshire and beyond.

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/health/gallery-take-tour-round-hris-8335933

My Mum used to work at that hospital 🙂

 

[Medusa]

I used to work there too

 

[Northerner]

I used to work there too

It's a small world! 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Blimey!

I had no idea such facilities still existed - I can remember actual pharmacists making stuff up specifically for you, at the chemist's shop. And ours (a Mr Cyril Smith) produced an insect repellent liquid - called it 'Ivy Lotion', until they would no longer supply the essential ingredient to private concerns.

No idea what was in it but it certainly worked - by that time the lads doing their National Service etc were going to some fairly far-flung places, and they swore by it for proper mozzies, it also worked against Scottish midges and everything else - since I've always been a positive magnet it was brill.

They'd also make up cough medicine and stuff like that, according to your individual symptoms.

Best of it was - it used to work, too !

 

[Medusa]

It's a small world! 🙂

Indeed it is and I don't remember anything about it. But that is probably not surprising.