Jeyes of Earls Barton
A pharmacy that will make you feel better in every way
Jam packed full of surprises, perhaps the most surprising thing about Jeyes of Earls Barton is still the number of people who say they don’t know anything about it. What began as a pharmacy has been at the heart of village life in
Earls Barton for more than 40 years. When it opened, David Jeyes handled the pharmacy side of the business, more than ably assisted by his wife, Georgina, who saw the shop’s potential. A businesswoman who never wrote a business plan in her life,
she set about building the pharmacy into what it is today – fi rst add- ing tables and chairs to serve teas and coff ees, before expanding in a variety of ways, from the practical to the almost unimaginable, to create what today is very much a family business with a diff erence.
At last year’s Weetabix Northamptonshire Food and Drink
Awards, Georgina was announced as the winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Food and Drink in Northamptonshire award. Georgina’s reaction to the announcement was a resounding
“Me?” and it took some time to get over the shock. “I couldn’t believe it when it was announced,” she said. “We’d been
invited along by the organisers, even though we weren’t up for any awards this time, and we just thought it was because of the ones we’ve won over the years. I was stunned when I realised what they’d said.” Georgina was joined on stage at the ceremony by her daughters,
Philippa and Anna, who are also at the heart of the business. T ey grew up watching their parents build the business, although for Georgina, the idea of women working hard in a family company goes back much further. Her own mother, Marie Taylor, founded Taylors Coaches in
Long Buckby in the Fifties and taught Georgina the importance of hard work. It was Marie that fi rst entertained visitors to Jeyes of Earls Barton with talks on John and Philadelphus Jeyes, the brothers who started a pharmacy business on T e Drapery in Northampton that saw the invention of the famous Jeyes Fluid, the cleaning product that fi rst appeared in 1870 and which still holds Royal patronage today.
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