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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.

We also haven't had any announcement from Dairy Crest.......



waiting.................

Like Gwyn, we also have a doorstep delivery with glass bottles and foil tops.

It's a shame that the bottling plant is to close. Does this mean that we will have to have plastic bottles? Is that as energy efficient as washing out the glass ones to refill?

TBH - the writing was on the wall when supermarkets were able to sell milk for considerably less than the Roundsman could. The doorstep sales is probably represented by the 4% of consumption in glass bottles.

I had not heard of this announcement, Elizabeth, although we do still have a doorstep delivery from Dairy Crest.
I will have to watch the dates on them. We have a mix of types of milk and sizes and the 1pint glass bottles always show a longer date on the tops.

We always saved the washed tops for many years as children.... either for charity collections of foil, but previous to that we'd bend them over a thimble to make bell shapes to hang in our bedroom at Christmas.

Gwyn

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI

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Dear All

Hello


Earlier this week, the firm Dairy Crest announced that their last glass milk bottle plant is to close.

In 1975, 94% of milk was put into glass bottles.

By 2012, this was just 4%.

"I can remember that wonderful clinking sound of the milk bottles arriving,"
says consumer historian Robert Opie.

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By the 1990s, the deregulation of the British milk industry and the decision by supermarkets to sell milk in plastic containers changed everything.

The delivery of milk by the regular milkman on the doorstep was the quintessential start to the morning.

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Who remembers the comedy song "The The Fastest Milkman in the West"
by comedian Benny Hill in 1970?


Who recalls saving milk bottle tops for charity?

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Take gentle care
Best wishes
Elizabeth,
xx