Milk Delivery A7

[Mike Costigan]

Bob, our local farmer delivered his milk direct from the milking parlour this way in the early 1950s. Every few houses he would decant the milk from the churn into the pail, and each household would bring their own bottles or jugs to be filled with a ladle; the milk jug would be stored in the larder with a damp cloth over it. Eventually we got pasturised milk in bottles, by which time he had upgraded his transport to a brand-new A50 pickup and the Seven presumably went to the scrapyard.