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Allingham’s business card.
ingenuity.
After the war he returned to his pharmacy practice and the other sideline businesses he had developed, including the photographic labels.
One of his best known proprietary medicines was Twin Soda which was sold in pharmacies throughout NSW, and was advertised extensively by Allingham himself.
The retail price was one shilling for a quarter pound packet.
In the late 1940s he put a manager into the Pharmacy and he and his
wife built a new home in Chatswood, which would have been a long slow job due to the dearth of building materials after the war.
Twin soda label.
Their next move was to sell the Pharmacy to Wally Pinerua and his son John.
Wally, who later became president of the NSW Branch of the Pharmacy Guild, had been the manager of a
busy Friendly Society Dispensary located not far from the Allingham Pharmacy.
The Allinghams then decided to travel around Australia, and so they headed West across the Nullarbor
in their Holden car, their first stop being Albany. Charles registered with the Pharmaceutical Council
of Western Australia on March 7, 1950, and for the next 18 months or so he worked as a locum Pharmacist,
resigning from the WA register on August 7, 1951.5
On their return to Sydney, Charles worked again for H.J.Falk and later at Greenacre, part time.
He was then able to devote time to his other interests, one of which was gardening, and he developed a fine garden at
his home.
His photographic skills were turned to portraiture, still life and nature, the latter being
in the style of the well
known 1920-30s artist
Harold Cazneaux.
From the camera he turned
to canvas, and he found a ready market for his miniature landscapes in the tourist shops
around the Sydney Rocks area.
He was also a skilled wood worker and he made the long cases for grandfather clocks.6
Charles Allingham died in his 90th year on September 30, 1995, two years after his wife Angela.
Sadly his knowledge and skills were not passed on to another generation as he died childless, but he did leave us with one of his pillars of wisdom, build the tool first, in order to do the job.
References
1. Form or Apprenticeship Indenture
Dec. 1922
2. Sydney Post Office Directory 1923
3. Sands Directory 1932/33
4. Deed of Covenant 12/8/1939
between C.E.Peterson and C.A. and
A.E. Allingham.
5. W.A.Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists.
6. Personal Communication to the author
from Mrs.D.Fawcett, Queensland, niece of C.E.Allingham October 2003.
Examples of various labels.
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