Boots

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Introduction
Based on 16 Goosegate in Nottingham, the Boots model retired in 2005. It is part of the Hazle 2000 series of ten Limited Edition ceramics of 2000 pieces each. To mark the new Millennium, Hazle recreated iconic stores that celebrate a century of shopping on the British High Street. Window details here are taken from the 1950s.

The Market Bar has leased No 16 since 2001. As a listed building the frontage by Hazle should lay underneath. Jesse moved here in 1877 and he soon expanded next door right, currently an Oxfam. 

 Back lit by gas lamps, carboys of bright liquids were chemists’ symbols. From The Book of Shops 1899, illustrated by F D Bedford.

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Hazle Ceramics
Boots
Limited Edition of 2000
on Nottingham

Boots History
Farm worker John Boot learnt herbalism from his father. In 1849 he opened at 6 Goosegate and got the doctors’ monopoly on dispensing removed. Son Jesse took over in 1877 and created the iconic High Street dispensing chemists, which now sell herbal remedies once more!

One retired piece

Private Sale £145

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A re-enaction of an 1800s North Carolina apothecary. 
No 6 Goosegate today. 

 Sir Jesse Boot was made Lord Trent of Nottingham in 1929. His wife Florence founded the Boots Library (1899-1966).