An apothecary was a mix of merchant and healer. Many times, they would have a wide display of healing herbs and spices that they would sell. But many of the apothecaries were also priest who were just using it to heal their congregation.
Apothecary house
They lived in a normal house for the time and work from there if they were in a smaller town.
Apothecary guilds
In medial times they didn’t have any guilds, but they would have their shops close together showing that there was some type of apothecary identity. The Society of Apothecaries was the first apothecary guild was the first apothecary guild established in 1606.
Apothecary stores
If an apothecary were in a larger town or city, they might have a store front that had ready made medicines on shelve in the front and a back area to prepare more "over the counter" type medicines or prepare a specifically ordered medicines.
Apothecary training
Many times, the local apothecary were not fully trained medical professionals. However, because many people could not reach a physician or hospital the local apothecary was there best chance at getting healed. This lead to many apothecaries having a wide knowledge of the human body and healing herbs.
candle makers house
They lived in a normal house. However, their house was outside of town because making candles pout of animal fat is a generally stinky process, more so then normal medieval lives.
Candle makers job
Chalders were important to people of the middle ages. Candle making was not a particularly difficult task as most people could possibly do it on their own. It was however time consuming, so the task was generally centralized to one group of people.
The candle makers
There are no famous candle makers that we know of, however, many candle makers were well liked by their town for providing them light.
Light for the commoners
A chalder would go around the town collecting the animal fat most commonly used to make candles and then make them into candles. This fat was then melted down and poured around strings to make the candle. Tallow candles made in this process were very foul smelling to burn and to make.
The candles
A chandler sometimes had bee hives around their house to make candles with bee’s wax. This required some skill and was also time consuming. because of the bee wax used to make these candles it was more expensive then a regular tallow candles but they had no smell and burned more evenly so the rich would buy many of them.
