Places associated with Wellcome's museum and library.
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96-100 Aldersgate Street. Museum store.
96-100 Aldersgate Street, London.
Store for museum objects and visual material, in the basement of the building. In use c.1946-1950.
Building file: WAHMM/CO/Sub/184, includes reports of regular flooding between 1946 and 1950.
List of material stored at Aldersgate St in 1948, across 7 rooms: WAHMM/CO/Sub/202 (beginning at image 4)
10 Henrietta Street. Showroom.
10 Henrietta Street, London. Location of Burroughs Wellcome & Company (BW&Co) commercial showroom from 1928. Showroom was previously co-located next to the Museum in Wigmore Street
References: Symons 1993, p20.
Includes the 'Penicillin building' and possibly unnamed others. Photograph of Penicillin building c.1947 (not digitized):
File on storing WHMM material on the WPRL site, 1947-54:
Inventory of stored material, 1948:
, undated. , undated.
Reference: , p3, 26 and 54n2.
145 Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich. Museum Store.
145 Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, London.
Location of WHMM museum store. Post 1922.
See Symons 1993, p.15, p.55 n37
Stanmore. Location of stores for museum and library.
Still in use post 1928 after the move to Willesden.
References: Symons 1993, p20
Easley Mews / Easley's Mews
Street at the rear of Wigmore Street, which housed the first Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM) at no 54.
Curator C.J.S. Thompson used Easley Mews as a correspondence address, indicating use of rooms there.
This was also a connecting route to the Welbeck Palace Hotel which was frequented by Henry Wellcome and held functions for the museum. Symons 1993, p.54n15
76 Marylebone High Street, London
Location of WHMM museum store. Post 1922.
Dartford / 'Dartford works'. Factory in Dartford, London.
Manufacturing site for Burroughs Wellcome & Co from 1889 onwards.
Production remained at the site throughout the history of BW&Co, later the Wellcome Foundation. GSK now owns the site, since the merger of Wellcome plc pharmaceuticals with Glaxo in 1995.
https://dartfordarchive.org.uk/20th_century/industry_wellcome.shtml
28 Portman Square
WHMM premises during period Euston Road evacuated during WW2.
9-13 Hythe Road, Willesden Junction. Museum store and library
'Willesden' - An abbreviation for buildings housing the Library and museum stores, situated at 9-13 Hythe Road, Willesden Junction, London.
Plan of ground floor, February 1930
Plan of 1st floor, February 1930
Buildings files: WA/HMM/CO/Sub/188 and WA/HMM/CO/Sub/189.
Library store at Willesden, 1937
Photographs of Library stores, c.1937, with locations noted on reverse (WA/HMM/LI/Pho)
Library premises c.1921-1928. Office address.
7 and 8 Stratford Mews, Marylebone Lane, London W1. (Warehouse, workshop and premises at No.8; 1st floor at No.7)
Library premises from c.1921 until 1928. Library moved to Willesden after this date.
8 Stratford Mews used as a correspondence address.
Building files: WA/HMM/BU/5 and WA/HMM/CO/Sub/193
54a Wigmore Street, London
Acquired c.1911. Premises of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM) from opening in 1913 until c.1932.
Rear entrance was onto Easley Mews.