This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs make for interesting reading.
Geoffrey Sewell
Johannesburg
South Africa
This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs make for interesting reading.
Geoffrey Sewell
Johannesburg
South Africa
Parishes Food was an tonic based on iron -tasted AWFUL !
On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 07:29:08 UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:children, I was unusually small for my years and very thin and pale. Every day I had parishs foodat the school, I gained weight and it saved my life. when I left school and had no more parishs food, I gadually got very ill again and was diagnosed with
This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can
remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which
necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it >> was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs >> make for interesting reading.
Geoffrey Sewell
Johannesburg
South Africa
I have come across this in my search to find Parishs food, which I had as a child but no ones seems to have heard of it. None of my four sisters had it but I had been sent from the east end of london in 1953 to a school in sussex for "delicate"
This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs make for interesting reading.
Geoffrey Sewell
Johannesburg
South Africa
On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 7:29:08 AM UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can
remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which
necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it >> was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs >> make for interesting reading.
Geoffrey Sewell
Johannesburg
South Africa
On 16/09/18 20:31, sari.byrne@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 7:29:08 AM UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:It seems to have been a tonic:
This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was
born
and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can >>> remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which
necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me
what it
was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His
memoirs
make for interesting reading.
Geoffrey Sewell
Johannesburg
South Africa
https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1954799/medicines-you-remember-from-childhood/p4
Another link suggested that it was bright red.
HTH,
Doug.
I'm 76 and as a child in London, loved parishes food. It was for anaemia and I thought it delicious! It was red and came in a medicine bottle.
On 6/13/2020 4:13 AM, marg...@gmail.com wrote:Is this Jamaica y'all talking about?
I'm 76 and as a child in London, loved parishes food. It was for anaemia and I thought it delicious! It was red and came in a medicine bottle.
Are you sure it was not "Geritol" or the GB equivalent?
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