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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.
We've been having bottled milk delivered for the last 10+ years.
The birds don't peck holes in the foil lids anymore like they did when I was growing up. I guess they lost that knowledge when supermarkets became most people's source of dairy.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 11:14 - Nov 10 with 2041 views
Remember cold Saturday nights in the 60’s, back from LR, and just as you were ready to rush out and get the Saturday night paper with full football reports, much quicker than Clive, coming round the corner of St Helens Gardens you’d hear... MUF-FINS, MUF-FINS.
Happy days.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 11:32 - Nov 10 with 2027 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 09:14 - Nov 10 by hoopsmark
Which village Ted....?
I used to work at Elcot Park in the 90s...halfway Inn my local....
Lived in Boxford for nigh on 40 Years, sold up when I retired a couple of years ago. Elcot Park is still going we used to have our annual H&S construction staff seminars there. The Halfway Inn sadly shut down a while ago, surprising as it was always busy, sign of the times I guess.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 11:34 - Nov 10 with 2025 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.
Yep that's the company we use as well.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 11:38 - Nov 10 with 2019 views
We use Milk and More too. From chatting with friends and neighbours, they do a fair bit of business around our way. They had to stop taking on new customers at the start of the first lockdown, because they were so busy. Drop off at 2am, though, which is a bit of a ballache in the Summer when we have the windows open.
Fulham FC: It's the taking part that counts
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Who still uses the milkman. on 12:23 - Nov 10 with 1977 views
we have one much against my will. Mrs Crowe thinks she's saving the planet by not buying plastic milk cartons. I think the price is more expensive than supermarkets and that it all seems a bit brexit. Gotta choose your battles though and this one ain't worth it.
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.
In the mid 1980s, I was going out with a girl from a rural part of Cheshire. Her dad had a bread van and he used to trundle round the lanes delivering to small villages and isolated houses.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Who still uses the milkman. on 15:39 - Nov 10 with 1827 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 11:38 - Nov 10 by Konk
We use Milk and More too. From chatting with friends and neighbours, they do a fair bit of business around our way. They had to stop taking on new customers at the start of the first lockdown, because they were so busy. Drop off at 2am, though, which is a bit of a ballache in the Summer when we have the windows open.
Ours normally comes before we go to bed, latest midnight! He must have more than 1 round to make ends meet.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 09:31 - Nov 11 with 1672 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 11:38 - Nov 10 by Loftgirl
My main memory of trolley buses is how cold they were in winter.
Good point. No motor, so no waste heat to be pumped round the interior.
Edit: that must be the case with electric cars, too. You'll have to use up some of your precious driving juice to heat the interior in winter. Or drive around chilly in order to get further.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 09:41 - Nov 11 with 1663 views
In the 1950s, in what is now UB6 0LN, two companies delivered milk - Express Dairies and United Dairies. This was usually by battery-powered milk float, but, occasionally with a horse-drawn cart. I cannot remember which firm still used the horse, but, I do remember the gardeners' interest in what the horse left behind.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 20:12 - Nov 11 with 1592 views
Who still uses the milkman. on 09:41 - Nov 11 by kernowhoop
In the 1950s, in what is now UB6 0LN, two companies delivered milk - Express Dairies and United Dairies. This was usually by battery-powered milk float, but, occasionally with a horse-drawn cart. I cannot remember which firm still used the horse, but, I do remember the gardeners' interest in what the horse left behind.
Did you live in a Norman Wisdom film.....
Extra mature cheddar......a simple cheese for a simple man
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Who still uses the milkman. on 22:21 - Nov 11 with 1554 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.
You'll probably get this old joke then:
Qn. What's blue and has four bums?
Ans. "Bum, bum, bum, bum - Esso Blue!"
(Kiddies ask your Granddad)
Edit: Found it:
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Who still uses the milkman. on 15:16 - Dec 7 with 1028 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.
Sorry, downvoted in a clumsy attempt to upvote.
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Who still uses the milkman. on 16:44 - Dec 7 with 898 views
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