Here is a little bit of our history which often gets over looked.
In 1916 Park Brow Farm was awarded a certificate of Merit at the Manchester Show “in the Competition for supplying Milk daily from Lancashire and Cheshire to Manchester and Salford or anywhere within a mile radius of Manchester Town Hall.”
In an age when a milk float is a rarity it is easy to forget that until very recently milk on the door step before eight in the morning along with a daily paper just how it was.
Of course on very hot days that milk had to be collected quickly and I do remember on occasion how the seal had been pecked by a bird.
And if like me you were born in the first half of the last century the chances are that your milk will have been delivered by horse and cart.
I know full well Mr Bailey who ran Park Brow delivered his by horse and cart as did Mrs Lomax who lived opposite and ran her milk round from Hough End Hall.
And back then the milk arrived in churns and was decanted into a jug. Sadly the stories of being sent to collect the milk direct from the farm are fading from living memory, but my old friend Marjory was full of the tales of being sent. and there were still plenty to choose from when she was young but given that she lived on Provis Road it was just a short trip across to the frm yard opposite
And that is all I am going to say having already in the past explored the demands for municipal milk and the milk boy of Edge Lane.
Location; Park Brow Farm, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Pictures, 1916 certificate, from the collection of Oliver Bailey
In an age when a milk float is a rarity it is easy to forget that until very recently milk on the door step before eight in the morning along with a daily paper just how it was.
Of course on very hot days that milk had to be collected quickly and I do remember on occasion how the seal had been pecked by a bird.
And if like me you were born in the first half of the last century the chances are that your milk will have been delivered by horse and cart.
I know full well Mr Bailey who ran Park Brow delivered his by horse and cart as did Mrs Lomax who lived opposite and ran her milk round from Hough End Hall.
And back then the milk arrived in churns and was decanted into a jug. Sadly the stories of being sent to collect the milk direct from the farm are fading from living memory, but my old friend Marjory was full of the tales of being sent. and there were still plenty to choose from when she was young but given that she lived on Provis Road it was just a short trip across to the frm yard opposite
And that is all I am going to say having already in the past explored the demands for municipal milk and the milk boy of Edge Lane.
Location; Park Brow Farm, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Pictures, 1916 certificate, from the collection of Oliver Bailey
In the 1890's Ivy Cottage Dairy in Cyprus St Stretford were advertising 'Warm Milk supplied Twice Daily' it being still warm from the cow guaranteed its freshness in an era when there was no refridgeration.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill glad you are back .......... warm milk only had it once on a farm shows how much of a townie I am I hated it!
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