Boots UK aka Boots the Chemist!

The famous drug store chain known as Boots has been in business for 160 years.  The Boots drug store, which used to be known as “Boots the Chemist: is a very familiar sight in all the UK including Ireland.  There is at least a couple of them on every High straight. If you are shopping at Boot.com be sure to pick up a Boots.com Voucher Codes from VoucherKid.com . Getting a discount will save you some money.

John Boot in Nottingham first established the chemist shop in 1849. It was just an herbal medicine shop back then until it was sold in 1d920 by his son Jesse Boot to the United Drug Company.  The Company was not American-owned for very long as it was sold back to the Boots in 1933.

The Boot drugstore legacy is not just about selling medicines. The Boots Company is also known for drug manufacture and research and in particular the development of ibuprofen as a painkiller in the sixties.  In the eighties Boots opened a branch of opticians as well as expanded it’s drugstores into Canada.  Some stores offer dentistry and well-being services such as laser eye surgery, nutritional advice, facials and Botox injections.

In 2005 the company merged with Alliance UniChem and then was bought out by Walgreens.  Currently Walgreens, an American corporation with many big drugstores, owns 45% of Boots.  However despite this it I a very British brand.

A popular tourist attraction and suburban Nottingham is The Boots Estate. The Boots Estate, located near the Nottingham suburb of Beeston, features several attractive historical buildings. It also has many health services in place.  This area is now known officially as New Addingting but it is often still called the Boot’;s Estage because Charles Boot, who was a descendent of Jesse and John Boot, was president of The Cbairman of the Trust which included, shops, two churches a cinema and a village green.  Still despite a great deal of development it is still surrounded by open space, woodland and chalk downland sites that have natural spring water.

Much of the area around this area is naturally protected. It is part of a green belt even though about four thousand houses were built on the property in the forties and fifties.

Boots makes its headquarters on the grounds.  The grounds include the Millennium Garden which features a herb garden (with some plants that Jesses Boots used in his original herbal remedies) in the shape of a goose foot – harking back to Jesse’s original shop on Goosegate in Nottingham.