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Your local pharmacy The pharmacy has been trading under its current name since the turn of the 20th century.

JWW Allison & Sons is a long-standing independent pharmacy that has been in its premises on Cockermouths Main Street for over 200 years, widely known as Allisons or Allisons Chemist. The pharmacy has had the same owner, Mrs Vera Lowrey for over 30 years. The shop is very lucky to have many loyal staff, who between them have served JWW Allison & Sons for almost 200 years!!

02/11/2025

Another fantastic display this year. Well done to all involved. 🎇👏🏽

02/11/2025

Good morning,

Here’s three useful facts about our COVID vaccination services:

*FACT ONE*
We are back in the pharmacy and all NHS COVID jabs require an appointment (via national booking system or 119). If you have an elderly relative then please consider helping them with this if it’s a problem. Link in comments.

*FACT TWO*
Only those who are over 75 by the end of January 2026 or who are immunosuppressed now get a free NHS COVID jab.

*FACT THREE*
We do have a private COVID jab available, it costs £80 and is made by Pfizer.

Wherever possible, we will try to accommodate walk in NHS and private flu jabs in between all the other things that we do, but there may be a wait or you may be asked to call back at busy times and when I’m back in if you call and I’m out. I didn’t put myself through those insanely busy walk in clinics at the Globe a few weeks back to do it all over again in the pharmacy!

If you’d like a private COVID jab, then I’d advise ringing ahead to ensure we have them in stock as they’re not always available when we order them in and they’ve been very popular.

Thanks

31/10/2025

**ROBOT UPDATE** 🤖

The engineer has been and after the best part of 5 hours and lots of drilling and sawing has gotten us up and running again, if not at full speed. But at this stage I’ll take that.

Thanks for your understanding as not having added pressure on top of the unavoidable technical issue does help us to navigate the situation much better.

In a new development, whilst the robot is back on track we now have a member of staff malfunctioning so I will be making a rare appearance tomorrow.

That does mean that anyone who can only make it for a flu jab on a Saturday can come in tomorrow and get one. Please note that this doesn’t apply to NHS COVID jabs, they still require an appointment during the week.

Thanks

30/10/2025

Good morning,

Some of you will know this, and others will be shocked to discover that we are anywhere near this modern!

Since the flood of 2009 and us finally getting back in our premises, we have had a dispensing robot upstairs. It served the purpose of storing medication higher up, giving us much needed room in our small dispensary as well as streamlining our dispensing process. It’s basically like a big vending machine, which we load and it then sends the medication down as we dispense it.

About 80% of what we dispense comes out of the robot so it’s a vitally important member of our team.

However…….

Of late our robot has been slowing down a lot (I’m not sure how many human years 15 robot years is) and yesterday a rather important piece of metal just fell off it. It’s survived threats of a Basil Fawlty style thrashing many times, but threats won’t cut it this time and I fear that a big decision on its future is imminent.

So for the next day or two (we are hoping that the engineer arriving on Friday can fix it) it will take us longer to dispense your prescriptions as there’s going to be a lot of running up and down stairs for us. So if you don’t really need your medication right now, then we’d appreciate it you gave us a few extra days to get back on track. If you need it then we’ll obviously take to the stairs!!

Thanks for your understanding

24/10/2025

Good evening,

That’s us done in the Globe for this year with our flu and COVID clinics. We will continue to vaccinate in the pharmacy but on a much smaller scale.

I’d like to thank everyone who’s come to us for their jab this season and for all the lovely comments we’ve received. I have huge appreciation for my volunteers who continue to step up every time I ask them to and do such an outstanding job.

Thanks to Peter and Helen who own the Globe and despite running a growing holiday accommodation business, continue to help us out by offering the ground floor to be used for our clinics. Without it we’d be stumped and a lot of people would find it much harder to get their jabs.

And finally thanks to my staff in the pharmacy who have to fill in all the gaps and answer all the questions when I’m in clinic mode.

Anyway, it’s time for a beer. 🍺

Have a lovely weekend.

Cheers

Nat

24/10/2025

My absolute pleasure. Injecting dentists and hygienists is extremely satisfying 😂

24/10/2025

Good morning. Today we have our last walk in flu & COVID clinic in the Globe from 10-4. After today it will be appointment only for COVID in the pharmacy

23/10/2025

I think the word ‘penultimate’ may have caused a little confusion. Tomorrow is our last walk in clinic not today. It’ll be 10-4 in the Globe.

23/10/2025

Penultimate walk in COVID and flu clinic at the Globe today from 10-4. After this you’ll require a booking for a COVID jab

21/10/2025

Walk in flu & COVID clinic today from 1-4pm. This is the last week for walk ins and after this an appointment will be required. Eligibility rules still apply

20/10/2025

Good morning,

For a few weeks we have struggled to obtain this vaccine, which we administer quite often for trips to India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia in particular.

We’ve received a delivery of some vaccine so please call to book an appointment if you need this vaccine before your travels.

https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/factsheet/55/japanese-encephalitis

19/10/2025

At Lorton for our final weekend flu clinic. NHS and private service available. Here until 11.30.

Address

31 Main Street
Cockermouth
CA139

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 6pm
Thursday	8:30am - 6pm
Friday	8:30am - 6pm
Saturday	8:30am - 4pm

Telephone

+441900822292

Website

http://allisonschemist.com/

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