Comments on: Allen & Hanburys’ Surgical Appliances

By: Carmen Chilson

Carmen Chilson — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:53:27 +0000

Nicola found part of a container from your company. Only words on it we can make out are: IS ENTIRETY SAFE,
-MENT THAN HALF A -, and
MOTHER FOR NURSING
Could you share a photo of a complete bottle?

By: GSK Heritage Archives

GSK Heritage Archives — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 08:47:34 +0000

Hi all, if you have any questions regarding the history of GSK, including Allen & Hanburys please send them to our archives email: heritage.archives@gsk.com.

By: antonio marte

antonio marte — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:00:27 +0000

Dear Sirs . I’m the chief of Pediatric Surgery – Vanvitelli University- Naples Italy.
I’m preparing a manuscript on History of Hernia in children entitled :The history of inguinal hernia repair in children.
Could I have the permission of reproduction of the images : Trussess and specifically n. 8526,8527, 8528, 8540?
Best Regards Antonio Marte MD

By: Pam victors nee Ayton

Pam victors nee Ayton — Sat, 21 May 2016 17:36:34 +0000

Further to my previous comments, I was reared on Allenburys baby food,risks etc. ,and remember Haliborange as delicious!

By: Pam victors nee Ayton

Pam victors nee Ayton — Sat, 21 May 2016 17:01:58 +0000

Aged19 in 1952 I worked in the Export Dept., as a secretary. The surgical dept. shared this space. I remember prosthetic legs “with squeaks” arriving from Africa etc, to be repaired, with accompanying beatles and spiders. I went on to be private secretary to Raymond Hanbury, New Products Dept. A wonderful boss who was in charge of company archives. I was sent to the British Museum to a musty room there where these papers were stored. They were used for “Through a City Archway”. When I left A&H in 1958 to have my son, Raymond insisted that we should really keep in touch. He took early retirement and with Betsy, his wife, moved to Scotland. We kept in touch for about 26 years. He kept up with the lives and careers of all of my three children. A real gentleman.

By: Max Hall

Max Hall — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 05:50:55 +0000

Whist searching my family history, I have discovered that a descendant of my Great Grandfather’s brother was a Director of Allen & Hanbury Ltd in 1939. He was John Netherway.
He had a wife Charlotte and 3 children, Kathleen, Stanley and Mabel. Any information about him or his descendants would truly be gratefully appreciated.

By: Kathryn Barnicott

Kathryn Barnicott — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:27:46 +0000

I am staying with my 96 year old mother-in-law who grew up in Bethnal Green and worked for Allen and Hanbury’s from the late 1930’s until early 1950’s. She has been telling me fascinating stories of working life in the East End of London during the war years, including the bombing of the Bethnal Green factory which lead to her working at Ware in Hertfordshire. She recalls meeting Alexander Fleming who came to visit the factory where she was working on the production line for the manufacture of penicillin. The old catalogues are a fascinating record of medical history.

By: Estelle Voges

Estelle Voges — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:55:28 +0000

I am an amateur antique medical instrument collector and a nurse educator, who stumbled upon a post mortem Allen and Hansbury set and collected their pastille boxes, infant rusk boxes and ventolin apparatus. I love medical history and like all shudder at the instruments used in the past….Very grateful to be alive in this day and age, enjoyed your site tremendously, thanks!

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 08:51:48 +0000

I must admit I am a bit late reading this, but I am mightily impressed. Wow, some of the
appliances and instruments are terrifying…..glad I was born too late to be subjected to them.

By: Andre Roets

Andre Roets — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:21:54 +0000

I need urgent information on a Allen & Hanbury operating table. Can anyone please direct me to somone? Kind regards