Opening Hours:    Monday–Friday   8.50am-5.30pm    Saturday   8.50am-12.30pm

			The Boulder Pharmacy commenced business as Stewart & Co at 25 Piesse Street, Boulder in January 1897, the third substantial business in the commercial area and the first pharmacy in Boulder. The owner, Harrie Saxon Lee, son of an immigrant clergyman living in Hamilton Victoria, had completed an apprenticeship at Ballarat School of Mines but had not passed the preliminary exam. He was therefore unable to be registered and worked around Victoria as a dispenser and manager before coming to the Eastern Goldfields where he acted as manager of John Boileau's Boulder Block Pharmacy on the 'Dirty Acre'. A year later, he began in Piesse Street and traded successfully until the Pharmaceutical Council forced him to use Dr Edward Elphick, medical apothecary, as cover under the name of The Boulder Pharmacy. He eventually passed a Modified Examination after three attempts and settled down to become a pillar of the community, Justice of the Peace, mayoral candidate, councilor and Grand Master of his lodge. In 1918 as Piesse Street declined due to the tramway running down Burt Street, he moved camp to the current premises. Harrie's son Norman qualified in 1921 and in the early twenties Harrie moved to Perth and started a Pharmacy in Barrack Street, leaving Norman to run the Boulder business. The metropolitan venture closed in 1927 and in 1928 he retired passing on ownership to his son. Norman was large, impressive and a fervent monarchist. He ran a successful business noted for its cosmetics and perfumery. In the photographic section, he was something of a martinet, forcing the staff to pay for every bungled print at the retail rate. There were very few mistakes thanks to a rebellious staff conspiracy. His tonsure was quite bald but every year he would make up a batch of hair restorer, advertise it in the window and sell the lot! A tribute to his salesmanship and the gullibility of the public. The local larrikins would bait him at the outdoor pictures, remaining seated while the national anthem was played, and provoking an imperial verbal barrage to the embarrassment of his wife. In the late thirties, father and son were involved in promoting a hinged toothbrush company together with a crippled entrepreneur, who sold script from the rear seat of a car driven by a chauffer. The war intervened and the company failed. In 1958, the business was sold to Arnold Butler who was instrumental in the retention of the Boulder name in the 1969 merger of the Town of Boulder and the Shire of Kalgoorlie. The business ran down in the recession of the sixties. The present owner took over in 1972 and the business narrowly avoided closing when the Golden Mile closed in 1975. The copper-coated showcases came from the Goomalling Pharmacy in 1976, classic examples of early century joinery by the Western Australian Arcus Company, which is still in business. The exhibits, most of which come from the Boulder area, show a progression of products, from the original galenical bottles imported in 1897, through the decades to modern day products that are no longer made. There is a significant number of prescription items no longer used which show how medication becomes redundant through the years. The fixtures on the walls appear to be the original shop fittings transferred from Piesse Street and made from the long straight lightweight pine from packing cases. A collection of razors, surgical implements, baby bottles, scales and other hardware implements, generally sold by pharmacies and a range of old cameras and film developing kits, cosmetics and perfumes rounds off the display.