A medical amnesty in North Norfolk has revealed more fascinating medicines from days gone by.
The Hoveton and Wroxham Medical Centre is running the amnesty, which will continue until October 11, to raise awareness about the problems of wastage and medicine disposal.
It had seen someone hand in the two 1987-dated bottles containing temazepam, a class C controlled drug which is a benzodiazepine used to treat insomnia.
And now further interesting medicines and treatments have been handed in - including Lloyd's Ardenalin Cream, Evans Dermal Powder and Boots Prepared Fuller's Earth.
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Dispensary manager Charlotte Watlow said: "We believe most of the finds are from the 1980s or even earlier.
"However it is hard to tell because they were made before regulations were brought in about dates on bottles.
"All medication returned has to be destroyed appropriately.
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"The event has been run to highlight the need for only ordering the medication you require each month and not storing medication at home that is out of date and disposing of them appropriately."
Medicines are being deposited in a bin at the practice for processing.
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The labels and contents are removed before the packaging is displayed in a boat, symbolic of the centre's logo and its Broads location.
Medicines are being totalled up at the end of each day and destroyed as part of the month-long amnesty.
According to a government website, £300 million is lost every year in the NHS due to medicine wastage.
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