Boots the Chemists

[piggy and babs 544]

LATE 60S EARLY 70 I WORKED AT BOOTS ON THE BEESTON SITE MAINLY D10 ONE OF THE FEW ORRIGINAL BUILDINGS STILL THERE ART DECO DESIGHN O

 

WORKED ON THE FIRST FLOOR OWN GOODS FINISHED STOCK OR OGFS FOR SHORT THIS WAS WEAREHOUSE DISTROBUTION CENTRE FOR ALL BOOTS OWN PRODUCTS THIS INCLUDED MAKEUP NO 7 AND 17 SOAP PRODUCTS MEDICINESOUR DEPARTMENT WAS ABOVE SOAP PACKING DEPARTMENT WE COULD LOOK OVER A BALCOLNY AT THEM WORKING DOWNSTAIRS.

 

I WAS AN ORDER PICKER PACKER YOU HAD WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE A METAL TROLLEY THAT CARRIED WOODEN BOXES THAT YOU PICKED WHAT WAS NEEDED FOR THE ORDER YOU WERE ONLY SURPOSED TO HAVE TWO BOXES ON IT AT ONCE BUT IN REALITY YOU COULD HAVE UP TO 6 ON IT AT ONE TIME ONCE THE ORDER BOX WAS READY YOU PUT THEM ON A CONVEYOR BELT WITH THE ORDER NUMBER CARD ON EACH CARD NUMBER RELATED TO A CERTAIN STORE THOUGH OUT THE COUNTRY.LATER WE STARTED USING THE LARGE CADGES YOU STILL SEE IN STORES TODAY.

 

THE MAKEUP DEPARTMENT ALSO HAD ONE OF THE FIRST MOOVING SELVING SYSTEMS IN BOOTS WEARHOUSESIT CAME TO YOU RATHER THAN YOUR WALKING ALL ROUNDS THE PREVIOUS SHEVING SOME OF US MOVED TO STATION ST FOR AWHILE SO THIS SYSTEM COULD BE PUT IN.

 

WE ALSO USED SOME WEARHOUSING AT ISLAND ST AND STATION ST WHEN ENTIRE RANGE OF 17 STARTED AND THE WHOLE RANGE HAD TO GO OUT TO ALL THE STORES THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO START WITH FOR THE AMOUNT OF STOCK NEEDED . I LEFT IN 1974 I THINK BUT HAD LOTS OF GOOD TIMES WORKING THERE..

[fch782c 144]

Hi piggy & babs

My grandfather Hubert worked in D10 during the 60's and 70's retiring in the late 70's what a coincidence

Paul

[Val 11]

I worked on Station Street from 1962 till 1972 first in the General Office block and then moved into the Head Office block when they moved to Beeston. ( both been demolised now) Went to Boots college one day a week on Mondays for the first 2 years.

[piggy and babs 544]

WHAT WAS HIS NAME FCH782C

[fch782c 144]

Hi piggy and babs

His name was Hubert Stimpson he retired in1979

Fch782c

[Julian hughes 0]

Does anyone have any images of the canal which ran through the former Boots factory on The Island Site Sneinton? I have seen maps detailing its route at the Boots archive office but would like to view any images .

Thanks

Julian

[Cliff Ton 10,479]

Welcome to Nottstalgia.

If you go here http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php and in the Search box type in various combinations of words such as Boots, Canal, Island you'll get the kind of thing you're asking about.

[baddowtowers 0]

Does any one remember the T1 Ball held every year at the Sherwood Rooms? It was open to all staff in the T1 area. I seem to remember' in the mists of time' that it was held around April every year from the late 50's to the early 80's.

[piggy and babs 544]

dont remember them being called t1 balls but we used to go to a boots dance at sherwood rooms just before christmas every year when i worked for boots late sixties early seventies. beeston d10.wellcome to notts talgia

[Hackie 3]

The T1 Ball was a semi-formal affair very popular with all employees. It was held, as you say, March/April, which was when the bonuses were distributed. As was usual for the time the senior staff (managers etc) were still ‘segregated’, seniors upstairs, lower echelons downstairs. Integration was not encouraged. But a good time was had by all as they say.

 

If memory serves, at various times the “Sherwood Rooms” were called “The Astoria Ballroom” and at another time “The Greyfriars”. Can anyone recall the right order and maybe the years. I think it was the “Greyfriars” during the war.

[barclaycon 569]

I wonder if this will signal the end of Boots in Nottingham ?

Yes, yes I've heard all about the statements that they want to keep the headquarters in Notts etc,

but beware of 'chocolate promises'.

Remember the Kraft / Cadburys deal!

The car parking levy might just tip the balance anyway. They'll probably up sticks and move the headquarters to Chicago and the manufacturing to somewhere in Asia.

[mick2me 3,033]

I think you are dead right BC!

[Fynger 841]

all Burrows and Close Chemists are now taken over by Boots, and will be changing their names soon

[catfan 14,793]

The Boots site at Beeston will be sold for housing.

[littlebro 234]

The ultimate Boots HQ is in Switzerland now and this is an attractive element that may have encouraged the takeover. The USA are concerned that many of their big companies buy smaller ones domiciled in Europe (as with Pfizer and Astra Zeneca) as the company tax is 20% whilst in the USA it is 38%

[DaveN 1,118]

Boots throught the years

http://www.nottinghampost.com/pictures/Boots-years/pictures-22130272-detail/pictures.html#1

[The Pianoman 1,535]

The Beeston site will probably just become a distribution centre

[Limey 242]

Walgreens have also announced that they will NOT move their HQ to Europe (Ireland was talked about) even though they have bought the remaining stock of Alliance Boots. I doubt this will have any affect on Beeston as Walgreens are not a manufacturer, in fact obtaining the manufacturing ability was probably one of the reasons they were interested in the acquisition.

I get my prescriptions filled at Walgreens - they are a good outfit to do business with. It will be interesting if Boots labels start showing up in their stores. Boots used to have stores in Canada, but I think they all closed about 10 years ago.

[LizzieM 9,514]

Limey, when I've been in the USA I've seen certain Boots products for sale in Walgreens and also in CVS and Target.

[barclaycon 569]

Limey.

Promises from multi-nationals don't mean a thing.

They'll promise anything to get the deal through, then they'll just do whatever they want.

Close factories, move their headquarters, avoid paying tax etc etc.

They know they can because governments don't do a thing to stop them.

As they say..... watch this space !

[tomlinson 879]

If there's a profit motive involved, trust no one.

[blueh2steve 3]

Met my ex wife whilst i was repairing the broken windows on the D10 building, started on the roof and worked our way down repairing every broken pane, she worked on the 3rd or 4th floor in the drugs dept, that was about 1977/78

[barclaycon 569]

Announced today.

I wonder if this is the beginning of the exodus from Nottingham that has been predicted for a while.

Apparently half the jobs going are in Notts - particularly Beeston.

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Is there any industry left in Nottingham now??? Remember when there was manufacturing, large and small engineering works, Cycle manufacturing, drugs and telephones, coal, building, knitted products and brick making.... It was hard to make ones mind up in the early 60's what to do when we left school.

[Cliff Ton 10,479]

These days the choice is McDonalds, Poundland, Aldi, Capital One, Pizza delivery, or lock yourself in your room and hack websites.