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St Editha's Church and the Old Paregoric Shop, Tamworth

Image credit: Tamworth Castle

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One of the two subjects of the painting, the late mediaeval Paregoric Shop, on Church Street, was demolished in 1936. It sold soothing medicines and paregoric or camphorated tincture of opium was sold well into the last century, having been developed in Leiden in the early eighteenth century.

Tamworth Castle

Tamworth

Title

St Editha's Church and the Old Paregoric Shop, Tamworth

Date

1856

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 42 x W 58 cm

Accession number

2003.8.1

Acquisition method

purchased with the assistance of the Friends of Tamworth Castle, 2003

Work type

Painting

Tamworth Castle

The Holloway, Tamworth, Staffordshire B79 7NA England

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