Edward Bach The Bach flower research programme

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Dr Bach's friends and colleagues established a Trust after his death, as a foundation to carry on his work. This later became a business called 'The Bach Centre'. This chronology details some of the events surrounding this and other centres.

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First Bach Remedy Newsletter	Newsletter			Widening influence	Mount Vernon fund	Australian group formed		New Zealand Bach Centre founded by Mr Ansell of Napier	Newsletter		First Rescue Remedy ointment	Nickie Murray joins Bach Centre		Book	Bach's books translated into German				Translations	Partnership change	Team change	Australia	Trustee changes	Weeks and Bullen trading as 'Dr Edward Bach's Centre'	Death of Victor Bullen	Weeks, Ramsell and Murray started trading as 'Dr Edward Bach's Centre'		Death of Nora Weeks	Trademark				Asset transfer		Judy Howard (J Ramsell's daughter) joins Bach Centre		Nickie Murray retires				A Nelsons Ltd take on bottling and distribution of products		Nelson's purchases Bach Centre business for £4.3m
Book translations						Newsletter		Formation of Trust	Francis Wheeler dies						Bach Centre Team						Handbook		Translations	Weeks and Bullen trading as 'Dr Edward Bach's Centre'
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1950	close
Bach Remedy Newsletter

In March, the first issue of the 'Bach Remedy Newsletter' appeared. Nora Weeks began her description in the newsletter of how to find the plants and make the remedies for yourself. The December newsletter included a description of how to prepare Rescue Remedy for yourself by putting two drops of each of the five remedies into a dosage bottle.

1954	close
Widening influence
Dr B Kanakagiri translated 'The Twelve Healers' into Tamil. Mr Hyman Klein mentioned as doing great work introducing the Bach remedies into South Africa.

1965	close
Bach Centre Team
Fiona Tweedale and Ethel Holliday join the Bach Centre team.

1964	close
Publication
Publication of Bach Flower Remedies, Illustration and Method of Preparation, Weeks & Bullen.

1959	close
Newsletter
Articles written by Fiona Tweedale and Betty Colenso appear in the newsletter. In Australia Dr Atcherley and Mrs F Cooper both created remedy gardens with all the Bach plants grown from seeds or cuttings. The newsletter noted that this would cut the delay in sending stocks from England as they could make the mother essences for themselves.

1979	close
Trademark
Ramsell applied to register the first of many trade marks in the name 'Bach'.

1983	close
Asset transfer
The business and assets of the Dr Edward Bach Centre were transferred to a company then known as Bach Flower Remedies Ltd.

1973	close
Translations \| French group formed
In France, Mde Cheminade translated 'Heal Thyself' and 'The Twelve Healers' into French and formed a Bach Society in Paris: Les Amis du Docteur Edward Bach.

1973	close
Trustee changes
Nickie Murray and John Ramsell became trustees of The Dr Bach Healing Trust.

1972	close
Australian group
Zena Otis was Secretary of the Dr Edward Bach Society of New South Wales, Australia. Maureen Edwards was President.

1971	close
Translation
Agda Pedersen translated 'Heal Thyself' into Danish.

1971	close
Handbook
Chancellor 's Handbook published.

1971	close
Bach Centre team
Nickie Murray and John Ramsell formally join the Bach Centre team.

1970	close
Partnership change
John Ramsell and his sister Nickie Murray became partners with Nora Weeks and Victor Bullen.

1969	close
Translations
In March, Dr Philip Chancellor translated 'Heal Thyself' and 'The Twelve Healers' into Spanish and Japanese.

1956	close
Publications
Dr JR Atcherley of Victoria, Australia, formed a Bach group of co-workers. The Bach Centre sent out mother tincture so that they could prepare their own stock bottles. This group was run by Mr Albert Abrams when Dr Atcherley moved to Queensland.

1958	close
Formation of Dr Bach Healing Trust
The fund to purchase Mount Vernon reached £1200 and the decision is made to borrow the remaining sum (from friends). The Dr Bach Healing Trust formed in September. It had three objectives: to purchase property (Mount Vernon) for the work of flower healing, to pay for its maintenance, and to promote and expand the work as the trustees thought fit. The first trustees were Nora Weeks, Victor Bullen and Frances Thomas.

1956	close
Newsletter
Recorded in the Bach Remedy Newsletter that Frau Gertrude Kern of Locarno, Switzerland, was the person who potentised Vine for Dr Bach in 1934.

1951	close
Bach Remedy Newsletter
The September newsletter stated categorically that the Bach remedies are not homoeopathic.

1955	close
Mount Vernon fund

In June a fund was established to purchase Mount Vernon. Mrs Dorothy Cornwall Legh held a garden party and raised more than £200 to inaugurate the fund.

1950	close
Edward Bach's books begin to be translated
Mlle Arlette Chabry of Renens, Vaud, Switzerland, translated into French 'The Twelve Healers', 'Heal Thyself' and 'Medical Discoveries'. Miss S Hartogs from Holland did a similar service translating the books into Dutch.