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Branwell Brontë

Photograph at the Branwell Brontë brown plaque

When the Brontë family lived in Haworth this was the druggists house and shop. The pharmacist at the time was Betty Hardacre & it was she who dispensed laudenum an opium derived drug to Bramwell Brontë in the years leading up to his death in September 1848, aged 31.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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