Milkmen/women

[Twocky61]

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Wowwww that's a good idea Zabadak I'll email Dairy Crest & suggest it to them

[DSCOMAN]

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Of Course milk floats ........great ! unless the battery was discharging too fast and running out of 'steam'.

I once got a lift to a job interview in a milk float on an industrial estate
and another firm used to have one to transport equipment between its local sites.

You can see one in 'open all hours' - Granvilles love interest, the milk lady

[Twocky61]

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Mostly Transit & LDV flat beds when as when a milkmen retires rounds are broken up and added to other rounds as nobody wants to be a milkman

[Richard1978]

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Where my parents live it's too hilly to be able to use electric milk floats.

I sometimes see one returning from a rounds when I'm at work, going too slow for the traffic.

[marc]

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My mother still has her milk delivered. The same milk man makes a delivery where I work. Does anybody remember the electric milk floats? The Co-op used to use them. The milk man delivering milk to my grandmother used to drive one.

[zabadak]

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We had this delivered with our milk when I were a lad!

[Richard1978]

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I did see a glass milk bottle with orange juice in it, I didn't know any dairies still did it.

[Twocky61]

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I still have my milk delivered by a trusty milkman. The milk seems to taste better from a proper bottle.

I agree with you Arran

All those crappy poly bottles

Milkmen even sell fruit juice in pint bottles

[DSCOMAN]

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and the 'older/poorer' people used to get steri. in the Long necked bottles ...YUK

[havasack]

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We had the milk delivered till about 2 yrs ago, was the plastic containers aswell. Had to put a stop to it when it became nearly double the price we'd pay for milk weekly.

As a kid I remember the clink of the bottles, each morning bar Sunday. 3 or 4 times the bottles came on Friday night, 74 cup final, 75 league cup final and a stag doo and wedding.

[aaronoxford77]

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I still have my milk delivered by a trusty milkman. The milk seems to taste better from a proper bottle.

[DSCOMAN]

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Nope, did hear a milk delivery van a few years back, but not heard it in a while.

When I was a lad I used to work on a milk round (a few actually), the best was the milkman with a horse and cart !!!- great clip clopping down the streets riding on the milk cart - he also had cows in a shed in the urban area !

(You didn't mention rag and bone men, knife sharpening men........at least everyone still has binmen ?)

[darren]

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MY DO I REMEMBER THAT THE FESTIVE MILK BOTTLE LIDS.
I THOUGHT IT A NICE TOUCH.
AND YES THE WEE BIT OF CREAM AT THE TOP ETC.

JUST AS I REMEMBER IT BELOW.

Aw milkmen with their clinking bottles early in the morning and back in the evening to collect the empties...the wee blob of cream at the top if you got it in quick enough before the birds pecked the lids open. Then a sign of Christmas on the way with the seasonal lids. Milkmen, postmen, breadmen, vegetable men, soft drinks men (we in Ireland called the mineral men) and the ice cream and shop van men. You could live alone in the country and still see a few friendly faces everyday.

[amethyst]

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Tesco put pay too them

[darren]

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i never see milk being delivered to ones door now.

not seen a milk van in many yrs full of bottles and the clink of them as they are put on your windowsill.

milkmen etc u had a bit of a chat with them too
.i miss them times.