Inside the Victorian Pharmacy

21Aug10

My wife went down to the quilting show in the NEC; so, I took the opportunity to visit Blists Hill Victorian Town, the site of the BBC’s ‘Victorian Pharmacy’. Fascinating, and the pharmacy looked just as it did on the television, although without the interesting experiments in manufacturing gunpowder and fireworks, or drilling teeth, that seem to have been lucrative sideshows for pharmacists of the day.

This is what the interior of the shop actually looks like:

But then I thought, what would a more period look look like?  This version is lightly split toned sepia/blue:

The jars make the colour version stronger, but the toned black and white version has its own appeal.

These were converted in RPP and the colour version had no other adjustments other than correcting for lens distortion and adding a vignette.  The black and white version was converted using a yellow filter and the with a light sepia/blue split toning effect.

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