Cavendish Pharmacy stands across the road from its great local rival, the Waterman Pharmacy on the corner of Forest and Palmerston Road. It has all the usual accoutrements of these places - a green cross on display, a professional looking shop front (their main chosen colour is blue)..
They also give some useless information to an unthinking public to make them think they weren't just in the business of business, so a yellow and red sign proclaims that they offer "Free Advice and Information on Health Matters", and "Free Prescription Collection Service".
To scare a few more people in the doors, they have a poster in the window saying "Malaria - it only takes one bite", which, of course, is true enough in the plasmodium lands of sub saharan africa, but less of a threat to civilisation as we know it in Walthamstow. Still, it makes you think, as do the silly come-ons on some of the other posters - the place proclaims itself to be involved in some way with the "London Homeopathic Clinic - Seeing is believing".
There are adverts for various nostrums aimed at the elderly and insecure: the key words that leap out from the posters being "Young and Free". You can be sure that the target market is anything but that - old and captive is what they are after. The window display has a great big pile of toilet paper augmented with information about stairlifts.
Tel 0208 527 1358.
Between the now shut Hamdi Internet Cafe and Forest Kebab.