I do like social history snippets. My friend Archie Simm shared with me recently some memories of various things once delivered reliably around Blantyre. Like Milk for example. He added, “I remember the days when we could count on the milk being delivered in bottles before 8:00am and depending where you were on the route, […]
What a photo! Outside Bardykes House, in the Avenue a few decades ago is the full vehicle fleet lined up for milk company, “Wilkies of Blantyre”. Pickups, milk floats and vans offering milk, butter, cream, rolls etc.. The drivers standing out their respective vehicles. With thanks to Sandy W again for sharing. Featuring Blantyre […]
Let’s go to the 1980’s in this article. Pictured is Wilkie’s of Bardykes, Parade Float. Shared here from Sandy Wilkie via our mutual friends Alex Rochead. Sandy explained, “It’s an old 1954 petrol Austin Dropside Lorry which my dad and I bought at a farm sale in Auchintibber in the late 70’s! I well […]
Dating from around the 1910’s, this previously unseen photo shows Blantyre milk deliveries taking place. Pictured is Alexander Craig and two milkmaids for his farm at Bellsfield, High Blantyre. The people stand holding milk jugs for delivering smaller quantities from the milk churns. The cart is clearly labelled although the exact location in unknown as […]
Pictured as a young man, Arthur Rochead is out delivering milk in the 1940s. Alex Rochead told me, “My uncle Arthur was born on 17 May 1929. Here is is delivering milk before the use of milk bottles.” If he’s eighteen or so in this photo, it may be around 1947. The location looks like […]