David Christie and Rosemary Wellman have been working together at the Roseville Pharmacy for 40 years

A PHARMACIST and dispensing assistant are celebrating 40 years of team work at Roseville Pharmacy this month, where they are very familiar faces to many customers.

Superintendent pharmacist David Christie, who was born in Fife, Scotland, opened the pharmacy in March 1969 and four months later Rosemary Wellman started work there as a trainee dispensing assistant.

At that time, the pharmacy was half the size that it is today, and as the Island’s tourism industry was then at its peak, many of their customers were visitors staying in nearby hotels.

The pharmacy also sold Max Factor cosmetics and within a year of being open, those sales had risen by 500 per cent. Open every day from 9 am until 9.30 pm, except on Christmas Day, the pharmacy has expanded over the years, as has its team.

Miss Wellman, who was born in the Island, assists the pharmacists by making up prescriptions. She also prepares ointments and mixtures, although this work has reduced over the years as medicines have changed.

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