Allisons Chemist

Allisons Chemist 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!!

Start the year with confidence and support at Allison’s Private Weight Management Clinic ✔️ Professional, honest advice✔...
28/12/2025

Start the year with confidence and support at Allison’s Private Weight Management Clinic

✔️ Professional, honest advice
✔️ Personalised weight management support
✔️ Competitive prices

With many patients already having benefited from the service and heading into 2026 in a much healthier situation. If you want no feedback, advice or oversight then our service isn’t for you. But if you want support, input and honest suggestions then our service is here to help.

📞 Ring 01900 822292 to make an appointment and take the first step towards a healthier you.

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for your custom and support over the past year. Before a...
25/12/2025

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for your custom and support over the past year.

Before anyone asks; we’re back open again on Saturday!!

And before anyone else asks; today is Thursday!!!

Have a good one 🎅 🎄

*The appearance of some staff members may have been altered in the making of this image 😬

Tonight is our Christmas night out – a chance to celebrate the incredible hard work and dedication of our team over the ...
20/12/2025

Tonight is our Christmas night out – a chance to celebrate the incredible hard work and dedication of our team over the past year. As always, my hope is that our patients feel we’ve done our absolute best to deliver the excellent service they deserve.

Our team truly represents what our pharmacy stands for. The values and ethos we work by were established long before my time, and I feel incredibly lucky to be surrounded by such committed, caring people.

Here’s to another successful year ahead, with plenty of positive (and excitingly challenging!) things already in the pipeline.

Mickey never quite made it to nights like these – we all know how difficult it was to get him off the premises – but it wouldn’t feel right not to mention him now that he’s become such a familiar face. He will be greatly missed, but his absence will also drive the necessity and innovation that helps us move forward and continue improving our service.

Merry Christmas to everyone 🎄

Good morning,Here is our flu jab availability for the rest of the week. We will post something similar for next week at ...
18/12/2025

Good morning,

Here is our flu jab availability for the rest of the week. We will post something similar for next week at the weekend. Please note that we don’t offer the service at the weekend at this stage of the service.

At present we still have adequate vaccine and we will post when that is no longer the case.

We have appointments for other services in the pharmacy so there may be a wait for your flu jab if you turn up and were in with someone.

**THIS IS TAKEN**Good afternoon,We’re having a bit of a tidy up. We have a brand new (obviously 😬) fixed height, mobile ...
17/12/2025

**THIS IS TAKEN**

Good afternoon,

We’re having a bit of a tidy up.

We have a brand new (obviously 😬) fixed height, mobile commode like this available. It comes boxed and would need to be collected.

It would retail at over £120 but we will take a £30 donation to one of our charity tins from the first person to message us on here and to commit to collecting it within a week.

Thanks.

Good evening, Some of you have followed our sad dispensing robot situation over the past few weeks. This weekend the fir...
15/12/2025

Good evening,

Some of you have followed our sad dispensing robot situation over the past few weeks. This weekend the first phase of life after Mickey was completed as we were visited by the robot engineer and we proceeded to take the rest of Mickey apart.

It was one hell of a job as I assisted the engineer, hanging on his every word as he told me what to do in order to both dismantle the robot and not injure/maim myself in the process. He was there opening his toolkit with his DeWalt this and his Makita that, whilst I was reaching into my plastic bag for whatever had been on offer in the middle aisle of Lidl!

After a long couple of days and considerable blood (not mine), sweat (mostly mine) and tears (of relief) we got the robot down into the shop in bits.

This was when I started to get worried as I feared that the scrap merchants wouldn’t come this morning and I’d be left with well over a tonne of hazardous metal in the shop for customers to injure themselves on.

Anyway, I needn’t have worried as they turned up, somehow managed to drop as skip into a ridiculously small space and get all of the metal into it, with only one sliced finger (once again not mine).

Although I’m very much a person who focuses on what’s in front of him and I keep on telling myself that these are exciting times, it was sad to see Mickey go. He has literally been a fixture here for 15 years and we will miss him.

This concludes the Mickey chapter and we will let you know when we’ve got the energy to move onto the next one.

Good morning,Final time I’ll put this on before they go to the tip. Free to anyone who can come and collect them. Heavy ...
15/12/2025

Good morning,

Final time I’ll put this on before they go to the tip. Free to anyone who can come and collect them.

Heavy pair of fired doors. No very good condition.

Thanks

Good evening,We’re being asked more frequently about the situation regarding children who have missed getting their nasa...
13/12/2025

Good evening,

We’re being asked more frequently about the situation regarding children who have missed getting their nasal flu vaccination at school or the GP surgery.

Unfortunately our standard NHS service only covers over 18’s and this year we have offered the nasal vaccine to 2-3 year olds as we’d been invited to join a pilot scheme.

We can inject children over the age of 10 privately for £15 but that’s all we can offer.

If your child is eligible for a flu jab for medical reasons, your first port of call would be your GP but I’m not sure that they have any vaccine left to be honest.

In the past couple of years a mop up session has been put on at Workington for those who missed out and this was communicated through the schools. I’ve asked around and there’s no news of this happening yet. If I find anything out then I’ll post it on here.

Thanks

Good morning,Just a quick post to say that at this stage of our service we aren’t offering flu jabs at the weekend. The ...
13/12/2025

Good morning,

Just a quick post to say that at this stage of our service we aren’t offering flu jabs at the weekend.

The news of the ‘super’ flu has resulted in us being rather busy over the past few days. We currently have plenty of vaccine available for both private (£15) and NHS jabs and will be offering them on a walk in basis from Monday. These will have to fit in amongst our other appointments as our dedicated clinics have finished. We are usually booked up later in the day so the last walk in flu jab is about 4.30pm and I’m out from 1-2pm.

Thanks

So after a long period of disappointment and soul searching, we have reached a significant step in the life of Mickey th...
10/12/2025

So after a long period of disappointment and soul searching, we have reached a significant step in the life of Mickey the robot at Allison’s.

Mickey didn’t perform too well in his exit interview and it was decided that we would go our separate ways. This resulted in considerable surgery (with more yet to come) and some of Mickey has now made his way to his next port of call. 😢

Yes, there may have been an element of child labour utilised during this procedure, but it was willing labour and there was never a drill bit in the drill at any point.

We will continue to work around the rest of Mickey and hope to have the engineer with us this weekend to do the stuff 10 year olds probably shouldn’t be doing!

Thanks for your patience as it’s not been easy and thanks to our staff who have taken it all in their stride.

Onwards and upwards. Literally up the stairs many, many times a day.

Good morning,Here are our hours over the festive period. In a nutshell we are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Ne...
09/12/2025

Good morning,

Here are our hours over the festive period.

In a nutshell we are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. We are open as normal on the other days.

We will be open until 7pm this Thursday for Cockermouth’s late night shopping event.

See you there

🎅 🎄 🎁

Good morning,We have a pair of fire doors we no longer need. Here is a photo of one of them. They used to be in front of...
06/12/2025

Good morning,

We have a pair of fire doors we no longer need. Here is a photo of one of them. They used to be in front of our dispensing robot and were there just in case Mickey got hot and bothered.

Nowadays there’s not a chance of him getting hot and he clearly can no longer be bothered, so they are surplus to requirements.

Each door is 840mm wide by 2000mm high and pretty heavy.

If someone is willing to collect them then they can have them. Just drop us a message or a comment.

Thanks

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

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