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free school milk with cardboard tops.........

and Margaret Thatcher - milk snatcher :-P

I must be one of the last people in my area who still gets milk delivered.
Since daughter moved out, we have cut down on the amount that we use and reduced what the milkman brings.

I am going to cancel it this week
I have just discovered that a carton of milk from the supermarket costs £1 and I have been paying £2.48 plus a £1 weekly tip for the same stuff!

I went for a tramp in the forest today - and yes, he's getting fed up with me ;-)

We were walking through some woodland that was, one can only say, past it's best. Dead trees everywhere and quite a few dead trees held up only by the branches of nearby trees or the ivy that smothered them.

Anyhoo, I noticed a glass bottle lying in the leaf mould. On closer inspection - it was a milk bottle, with the name of the dairy on it. I also noticed it wasn't of the 'modern' shape. Ironic, I said, when they're about to stop delivering milk in bottles.

I picked it up - not wanting a pony/deer to stand on it, and bought it home. Got home, went on the internet to see if I could work out how old it was.

This milk bottle is from the late 1940's, early 1950's. The dairy it came from amalgamated with another dairy about that time.

It had been lying there for over 50 years - about the time the trees were planted!!

I love the internet
:-D :-D

That's great Maggie.

Are you going to keep it....Maybe start a collection?

Well done for probably preventing an injury to an animal, at some point.

Gwyn

If anyone wants to be more precise about the date, the bottle is embossed with E Williams, New Model Dairies Ltd Southampton.

They were established in 1830, were based in Vaudrey Road, Shirley, Southampton, their horses were stabled in Stratton road Shirley, and by 1959 were Brown & Harrison Model Dairies.
Someone mentions, in the 1940's that the dairies were soon to amalgamate.

Just trying to find out about the dairy elicited some fascinating memories (online) of Southampton, including memories of Benny Hill and his dad :-D

Gwyn, whatever made you think I 'may' start a collection? :-S

I have quite a few old bottles, and the ginger beer bottle could do with a 'friend' :-D

Also have an empty shelf......

Do I also admit to (yet again) hearing dead/dying trees creaking?
The people I'm with don't initially hear it, until I point it out. (so it's not my imagination)
Am I, instead of getting more hard of hearing as I get older, becoming 'attuned' to dying trees? :-S