At the age of 73, most people are taking it easy and enjoying their retirement, perhaps on a relaxing cruise or the golf course. Not Phil Hunt, the Bristol community pharmacist affectionately known to many as ‘Phil The Pill’.
Phil still works at the award-winning Stokes Croft Pharmacy most days and this week he marks 50 years since he qualified as a pharmacist. It’s also half a century since he bought his first shop in Clifton Village, which kickstarted a successful chain of pharmacies.
Business was going so well in the late 1970s and early 1980s that Phil even bought his own hot air balloon in the colours of his favourite football team, Aston Villa. Although it raised the profile of his business, he soon had to explain his ‘flash’ advertising method to the Pharmaceutical Society’s ethics committee.
