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#Harvey's Chemist
Heritage Blue Plaque #Nr 40
HARVEY'S CHEMIST - 38 Ueckermann Street
What is the story here?
Harvey was born in Verulam in Natal on the July 8, 1861. During the second Anglo Boer War Harvey and his good friend Dr O’Reilly was arrested on October 12, 1900 and sent to Cape Town. Reports came out that Harvey used his farm as a Boer Post Office, and that the letters had been taking there secretly in the Doctor’s cart. Dr O’Reilly and Harvey where both members of the Red Cross.
On February 25, 2022, Tony Burisch from the Heidelberg Heritage Association awarded the latest blue plaque to Harvey’s Pharmacy in Ueckerman street. The sponsor of the plaque is Mr. Jaco Coetzer.
Walter Harvey was a local pharmacist and Mayor in Heidelberg in the 1920’s.
After the war Harvey resumed his practise as a chemist and was Mayor of Heidelberg in 1923. Harvey’s Pharmacy existed for a number of years. The pharmacy shop was located next to the Old Standard Bank in Ueckermann Street. Harvey died in Heidelberg on October 27, 1938, aged 77. His wife Jessie Elliott Harvey, who was born in Scotland on September 13, 1868, and died 15 years later on the July 16, 1953. They are both buried in the Heidelberg Kloof Cemetery.
Harvey opened the Old Landbank in 1923 with the foundation stone been laid by himself. .
Source: Article written by Eugene Viljoen in the 2nd of March edition of the Heidelberg Herald.
See Blue Plaque No 16 posted on the 1st September 2021
