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Post by Ken on Apr 27, 2021 11:09:05 GMT
No Milk Today. A very English Story. The vanishing world of the milkman. In his heyday, over 40,000 milkmen and women were delivering milk to virtually every household in the UK, however now only a few thousand remain serving less than a tenth of all homes. ISBN 9781472136893  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2021 14:03:18 GMT
No Milk Today. A very English Story. The vanishing world of the milkman. In his heyday, over 40,000 milkmen and women were delivering milk to virtually every household in the UK, however now only a few thousand remain serving less than a tenth of all homes. ISBN 9781472136893 View AttachmentNot even a tenth here or in Canada. In fact I think they're obsolete. |
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Post by Ken on Apr 27, 2021 14:09:57 GMT
Blame the supermarkets.
I remember as a nine year old going out with a milkman on his horse and cart serving milk from straight from the churns into customers own milk jugs and containers.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 27, 2021 14:31:13 GMT
Blame the supermarkets. I remember as a nine year old going out with a milkman on his horse and cart serving milk from straight from the churns into customers own milk jugs and containers. I milked cows by hand as a teenager. The cows in question had to have regular checks for transmissible disease. To this day [nearly half a century later] I rarely drink milk without at least some cream content. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2021 15:02:30 GMT
Blame the supermarkets. I remember as a nine year old going out with a milkman on his horse and cart serving milk from straight from the churns into customers own milk jugs and containers. That's wild. I'm almost jealous. I've said before that I feel as if I've traveled 200 years in the past. I see horses at the beach, not for show, but being trained to walk casually among people. It's startling. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2021 15:03:15 GMT
Blame the supermarkets. I remember as a nine year old going out with a milkman on his horse and cart serving milk from straight from the churns into customers own milk jugs and containers. I milked cows by hand as a teenager. The cows in question had to have regular checks for transmissible disease. To this day [nearly half a century later] I rarely drink milk without at least some cream content. Never done that either. How lucky you are. |
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Post by Ken on Apr 27, 2021 16:01:14 GMT
 Old milk measures. 1/4 (Gill), 1/2 and 1 pint. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 27, 2021 16:59:45 GMT
I milked cows by hand as a teenager. The cows in question had to have regular checks for transmissible disease. To this day [nearly half a century later] I rarely drink milk without at least some cream content. Never done that either. How lucky you are. I've churned butter with a hand-powered churn as well. Fortunately I never had to learn to utilize a mule-drawn plow as my father did when he was a kid.
I still have a hunting horn my paternal grandfather made from a cow's horn long ago.
Whenever my daughters complain about the internet going down [temporarily] I remind them I was born before the internet and managed to survive.
Changes in technology, population, and attitudes drive the changes in how we live. Thanks to the pandemic the job of milkman is making a bit of comeback in the US. |
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Post by Ken on Apr 27, 2021 18:18:16 GMT
My wife’s family were farmers in the middle of England.
She recalls her mother going into the diary each morning to take a jug full of cream from the top of a churn to bring home for the children’s breakfasts.
A churn can be described as the large multi gallon container to transfer milk for the milking parlors to the diaries for distribution or the butter making machine that were revolved to make butter.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 27, 2021 19:02:21 GMT
In my youth it was a stoneware container, a rod with a paddle attached, and arm power. Nothing as modern as a mechanical rotary apparatus.
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