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very rarely see a milk float these days. remember our order when we were kids....... 1 bottle of sterilised 2 cows milk.....still with the cream on the top, if the crows had'nt got to it first. 1 bottle of orange in proper glass bottles. wednesdays and saturdays. the milk float came from the depot in goldhawk road, the co op. used to have a saturday morning job with them back in 1974/75.
and the coalman.....who still uses the coalman. used to have a coal shute in what we called the skullery come kitchen, and that was in the suttons off dalgarno gardens.
My mum arranged for her and dad's milk to be delivered a few years back. Dad was reluctant as it's a bit more expensive but went along with it. They deliver all kinds of things you might not think. I had mum order me some multi-purpose compost last year.
We had a very famous local one, who had a girlfriend Sue who lived at 22 Linley Lane. Unfortunately, his rival Ted, from Teddington, who drove the baker's van got the better of him and he is no more.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 19:45 - Nov 9 with 5865 views
Milk and More milkmen deliver all over the country - they've been on their way back for years, we went back to it about 2 years ago, and it's been great and think they had a lot more business start in lockdown too. Highly recommend it.
Bare bones.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 19:48 - Nov 9 with 5850 views
We do in Kensal Green - started it cos we had two babies and it was properly handy, carried it on ever since. He’s doing well more signing up all the time
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Who still uses the milkman. on 19:53 - Nov 9 with 5836 views
We used to have milk delivered in the West Berkshire village we recently lived in between 02.00 and 03.00 every Tues/Thu and Saturday morning, our village was about 4 miles West of Newbury and our village was the first port of call as the milkman worked his way back to the depot in Newbury. When I was a nipper in London we did have a coal bunker but couldn't afford coal maybe more than three times a year.
We had second hand paraffin heaters and the paraffin was delivered on the back of a bowser, the delivery man used to pump it into a 5 gallon can and it was my job to keep the paraffin heaters 'topped up' in the house, if any of the heaters used to run out of paraffin it used to knacker the wick and my old man would go apeshit, take his belt off and chase me round the house. The paraffin heaters only run out of paraffin once.
Esso Blue.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 19:56 - Nov 9 with 5830 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 19:53 - Nov 9 by ted_hendrix
We used to have milk delivered in the West Berkshire village we recently lived in between 02.00 and 03.00 every Tues/Thu and Saturday morning, our village was about 4 miles West of Newbury and our village was the first port of call as the milkman worked his way back to the depot in Newbury. When I was a nipper in London we did have a coal bunker but couldn't afford coal maybe more than three times a year.
We had second hand paraffin heaters and the paraffin was delivered on the back of a bowser, the delivery man used to pump it into a 5 gallon can and it was my job to keep the paraffin heaters 'topped up' in the house, if any of the heaters used to run out of paraffin it used to knacker the wick and my old man would go apeshit, take his belt off and chase me round the house. The paraffin heaters only run out of paraffin once.
Esso Blue.
yeah the old paraffin heaters as well. used to get our paraffin from a little garage in dalgarno gardens, still there.
At the start of the lockdown in March, we signed up to have our milk delivered from the local farm. Twice a week we have 2 x 2 litre bottles delivered at 6am.
Would never go back to supermarket milk.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 21:38 - Nov 9 with 5686 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 19:43 - Nov 9 by HantsR
We had a very famous local one, who had a girlfriend Sue who lived at 22 Linley Lane. Unfortunately, his rival Ted, from Teddington, who drove the baker's van got the better of him and he is no more.
Didn't Ted end up marrying Sue?
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Who still uses the milkman. on 22:35 - Nov 9 with 5603 views
Every Saturday when the milkman came round to collect his money, my mum would buy me and my sister a Mikki chocolate milk drink each. Used to love those.
Had a mate who spent his life searching for something similar and eventually found it in Belgium. Only bloke Know who would go on a day trip to the Continent and come back with crates of chocolate drinks rather than booze.
Anyone else remember the Mikki>
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Who still uses the milkman. on 22:44 - Nov 9 with 5582 views
Braziers Dairy, top of Elmstead Ave, tucked in behind the shops on Preston Rd.
What about the ‘fertilser / manure’ for the garden, lorry(horse drawn cart when I was real young), smell ‘em up the other end of East Lane, crikey! Two blokes running door to door(people in Wembley used to garden back then), another bloke driving a truck load of turd, my old man would have a couple of barrows as he was big into growing yer own veg.
Who still uses the milkman. on 19:53 - Nov 9 by ted_hendrix
We used to have milk delivered in the West Berkshire village we recently lived in between 02.00 and 03.00 every Tues/Thu and Saturday morning, our village was about 4 miles West of Newbury and our village was the first port of call as the milkman worked his way back to the depot in Newbury. When I was a nipper in London we did have a coal bunker but couldn't afford coal maybe more than three times a year.
We had second hand paraffin heaters and the paraffin was delivered on the back of a bowser, the delivery man used to pump it into a 5 gallon can and it was my job to keep the paraffin heaters 'topped up' in the house, if any of the heaters used to run out of paraffin it used to knacker the wick and my old man would go apeshit, take his belt off and chase me round the house. The paraffin heaters only run out of paraffin once.
Esso Blue.
bom bom bom bom.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 08:17 - Nov 10 with 5403 views
yep... been using a milkman for about 3 years now... We even got some bog roll from them a few months ago when none of the supermarkets had any. We've been trying to bypass supermarkets as much as poss so we get bread from the local bakers, meat direct from a farmer, seasonal veg deliveries every week.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 08:25 - Nov 10 with 5392 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 19:53 - Nov 9 by ted_hendrix
We used to have milk delivered in the West Berkshire village we recently lived in between 02.00 and 03.00 every Tues/Thu and Saturday morning, our village was about 4 miles West of Newbury and our village was the first port of call as the milkman worked his way back to the depot in Newbury. When I was a nipper in London we did have a coal bunker but couldn't afford coal maybe more than three times a year.
We had second hand paraffin heaters and the paraffin was delivered on the back of a bowser, the delivery man used to pump it into a 5 gallon can and it was my job to keep the paraffin heaters 'topped up' in the house, if any of the heaters used to run out of paraffin it used to knacker the wick and my old man would go apeshit, take his belt off and chase me round the house. The paraffin heaters only run out of paraffin once.
Esso Blue.
Which village Ted....?
I used to work at Elcot Park in the 90s...halfway Inn my local....
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Who still uses the milkman. on 09:39 - Nov 10 with 5286 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 19:45 - Nov 9 by Antti_Heinola
Milk and More milkmen deliver all over the country - they've been on their way back for years, we went back to it about 2 years ago, and it's been great and think they had a lot more business start in lockdown too. Highly recommend it.
We’ve been using them for years now, during first lockdown existing customers got preferential treatment when it came to “extras” like bread, eggs etc. Slightly more expensive than the supermarkets but much more convenient.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 09:47 - Nov 10 with 5261 views
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