Nostalgia for an old-fashioned milk bottle

[annie]

Do you still have a milkman?
We don't, as I only use  a couple of pints a week, but there is still one milk delivery float around here

The announcement that Dairy Crest's last glass milk bottle plant is to close has prompted a flood of nostalgia for a former staple of the British street.

Travel back in time to a British doorstep in 1975 at, say, 7.30am.

There's almost certainly a couple of foil-topped glass milk bottles there. Maybe more. Some of the tops may have been pecked by birds, although if you left a couple of plastic cups out the milkman probably popped those over the top of the bottles to protect them.

Then, 94% of milk was put into glass bottles, according to Dairy Crest. By 2012, this was just 4%.

"I can remember that wonderful clinking sound of the milk bottles arriving," says consumer historian Robert Opie. Then there was the ubiquitous morning whirr of electric floats. Others remember the colour coding on the foil tops. And that weirdly satisfying way of opening them - a push just powerful enough to dent but not break it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29327881

[Misspears]

We don't have a milkman,but my next door neighbour use to,the milkman didn't come I na milk float
Just a small van

Ann x

[maureenho]

Haven't had a milkman since the late 1970's, we don't use much milk.

I remember back in the 50's or 60's they use to have orange juice in little bottles.