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Branwell Brontë and Betty Hardacre brown plaque

Commemorative plaque
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This brown commemorative plaque records: 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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