The way we were…. and going back to!
A glass bottle of milk!
When did you last have a glass bottle of milk?
We managed to get a couple of bottles of milk from a farm shop, instead of mass produced milk in plastic bottles.
Feels like a real treat.
Only difference to the old days is that it’s a litre bottle and not a pint, and it has a screw top.
I used to deliver milk for a couple of hours before school, when I was 15 yo.
On the milk round we delivered… Farm bottled milk (green top), Pasteurised milk (silver top), semi skimmed milk (red and silver top), skimmed milk (red top), sterilised milk (a top that you had to get off with a bottle opener), full cream milk (gold top), and gills in half pint bottles (green top) .
The milkman would pick me up at 6.00am and drop me off at school at 8.00am, on Saturdays we delivered double, and had to go back to the farm to re-load up, we finished at 12.00 ; we were also taken for breakfast on Saturdays to a cafe… for a chip butty and a horlicks.
I got £1.20 per day, and £2.40 on Saturdays. I was quite well off!
The way we were…. and going back to!
A glass bottle of milk!
When did you last have a glass bottle of milk?
We managed to get a couple of bottles of milk from a farm shop, instead of mass produced milk in plastic bottles.
Feels like a real treat.
Only difference to the old days is that it’s a litre bottle and not a pint, and it has a screw top.
I used to deliver milk for a couple of hours before school, when I was 15 yo.
On the milk round we delivered… Farm bottled milk (green top), Pasteurised milk (silver top), semi skimmed milk (red and silver top), skimmed milk (red top), sterilised milk (a top that you had to get off with a bottle opener), full cream milk (gold top), and gills in half pint bottles (green top) .
The milkman would pick me up at 6.00am and drop me off at school at 8.00am, on Saturdays we delivered double, and had to go back to the farm to re-load up, we finished at 12.00 ; we were also taken for breakfast on Saturdays to a cafe… for a chip butty and a horlicks.
I got £1.20 per day, and £2.40 on Saturdays. I was quite well off!