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Last of the Bottle Milk Delivery
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 27 Sep 2014 17:11 |
Dear All |
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Graham | Report | 27 Sep 2014 17:20 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI |
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AnninGlos | Report | 27 Sep 2014 17:23 |
I can remember when about 12 going to the local dairy and helping doing something with the bottles, I can't remember what we did though. Although I can 'see' the bottles whizzing round being washed etc. I think we may have helped to load them onto the machine that moved them around. Can't see H&S allowing that these days. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 27 Sep 2014 17:23 |
I had not heard of this announcement, Elizabeth, although we do still have a doorstep delivery from Dairy Crest. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 27 Sep 2014 18:20 |
Like Gwyn, we also have a doorstep delivery with glass bottles and foil tops. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 27 Sep 2014 19:10 |
We also haven't had any announcement from Dairy Crest....... |
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Jane | Report | 27 Sep 2014 19:17 |
We too still have a doorstep delivery with the glass bottles.Funnily enough we have recently been thinking of stopping it and just buying at the Supermarket as it is so much cheaper .But we have always wanted to support the local Milkman. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 27 Sep 2014 20:42 |
We're the same, Jane. |
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Jane | Report | 27 Sep 2014 21:15 |
Our Milkman delivers sometimes before 3am !!!!.I only know this because the security light goes on ,and I then have to have a peek out the window to see what has made it go on.I always think it might be a fox or some other night time creature.But it is just the good old Milkman :-D |
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Linda | Report | 27 Sep 2014 22:04 |
I remember when has children we came up to stay with our grandparents in London nan once a week along with her milk she had this bottled orange drink delivered, I can still taste it sometimes |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 27 Sep 2014 22:12 |
That's really sad news for me Elizabeth as I used to be the manager of a Dairy Crest Distrubution Centre in Cambridge. Over twenty years ago the big supermarkets were telling the dairies what they were prepared to pay for milk, not the dairies saying what they wanted for it. The milkmen all sold a range of other goods too including Christmas Hampers, turkeys etc. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 27 Sep 2014 22:17 |
when I was a child our milk was delivered by the local farmer and Ginger the horse and cart - milk was in churns and it was measured out into the jug my mother left on the doorstep - if I had to go up the farm for milk I waited in the dairy while he ran it through a cooler thing and put it in a bottle with a cardboard top - the top had a small hole in the middle for a straw presumably. We used the cardboard tops to make woollen bobbles |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 27 Sep 2014 22:35 |
another end of a era :-( :-( |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 27 Sep 2014 23:38 |
Dear All |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 28 Sep 2014 08:27 |
According to a neighbour, Dairy Crest already deliver in plastic bottles. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 28 Sep 2014 10:13 |
When I was a child, we lived near a dairy farm. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 28 Sep 2014 10:46 |
My Grt grandfather and later my grandfather owned a Dairy in Poplar, London! |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 28 Sep 2014 11:23 |
When I was just a lad our milk was delivered from the Co-op by horse and cart, my Gran/Mum would buy plastic milk tokens every Saturday from the Co-op and the number of tokens they put out, told Ben our milkman, how many pints you wanted. |
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AnnMarieG | Report | 28 Sep 2014 11:30 |
I recall with fond memories the milk being frozen in the winter with the tops sticking over the top of the frozen cream. Ah, lovely days. xx |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 28 Sep 2014 11:40 |
and bluetits pecking holes in the tops to get at the milk :-D |
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