Milk Delivery A7

[Mike Costigan]

Indeed, remember the Matchbox milk float?


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[Chris Garner]

When " I were a lad ", in summer we'd often find the foil top pecked open by the blue-tits to get at the cream and in the winter, the milk froze, pushing up out of the bottle top.

[Rick F]

You didn't have to have lived in the country to have horse drawn milk floats. I was born and bred on a London Council estate and we had them until well into the '50s. When they changed to electric floats the milkmen were not at all amused......

And my Dad's rhubarb was never the same again!

[charlie carpenter]

Myra's 33 high top van was the milk delivery van in Strathaven until 1953 when the farmer resorted to the horse and cart due to the Suez crisis. It was rescued from a cow barn by John Rooney in 1973 and we restored it in the late 80's. He took the back doors off and filled the bottles from churns in the back. The van with doors open wide serving tea and coffee this time