Does anyone know/have a Milkman in Manchester area please?

[zuzka]

Hm? 

[celeste]

Hello Zuzka and welcome to the forum.  I always buy my milk from a supermarket so if anyone else can help Zuzka with this please post

[Cupcake]

There must be a thousand milkmen in the Manchester area as a whole.  Perhaps a slightly more specific area would help?  Failing that, the easiest thing is probably to just check the yellow pages for dairies and get in touch with them. 

[Churchmouse]

You still have milkmen in the UK? I thought that was a thing of the past. It is here. I used to like seeing the milkman as a kid and also the bread man. He always smelled like a bakery.

[Cupcake]

We have milkmen.  They arrive in diesel vehicles at the crack of dawn and leave plastic cartons of milk and usually offer an assortment of other things like eggs, cream, butter, orange juice, yoghurts, bread etc.  The days of milk churns, glass bottles and horses have gone though.....    My great-granny used to nip out with a carrot for the milkman's horse every day and it usually obliged her a couple of times a week with a shovelful of fertiliser for her roses.   I doubt milkmen these days would do that.....well, most of them wouldn't anyway!
 
 

[Churchmouse]

What kind of fertilizer would you get from a diesel vehicle?
 
Where we lived before there was a place where they milked two or three cows. They pasturized the milk in a metal vat, then put it into glass quart bottles. The cream was on the top. We would spoon some of it off, put it in a jar and shake it until it turned to butter. Our kids wouldn't drink it. They wanted "real milk" from the grocery store.

[Jim44]

I see a milkman each morning I'm on work. He always waves from his electric float.

When I was about 9 or 10 I used to help the milkman on his rounds, on the old horse and cart. The horse always knew what houses to stop at.
I used to be up at 4am and walk half a mile down the dark gas lit streets to the stables. Then back to the dairy to load up. It took about six hours to deliver then back with the empties. Then horse and cart to the stable. Happy days.

[Cupcake]

Electric milk floats!  Never had one of those round here.  Used to be a local man with a flat bed truck and his big hunky sons.  Don't know who it is now - just know he's here at dawn cos his damn racket wakes the dog every time.....
 
Churchy, pardon my language, but I reckon I'd get a fair bit of cr*p off most milkmen if I stuck a carrot up their diesel's exhaust..... 

[Churchmouse]

You may get a bit of trouble if you stuck a carrot up a horses exhaust   Not to mention a bit of crap.

[Jim44]

When they stopped using horses I used go on the electric floats, and returning to the dairy they were more tired than the horses as the batteries were running low. They always seemed to make it back though!

[sheilanz]

I remember horse and carts being used to deliver milk & bread
 
The milk came from the farm up the lane and one got fresh eggs and could order a chook or a Capon for Xmas.
Gladys and Jim Bro and Sis ran the rounds for their Dad,Mr Wright
he was the one who bred Donkies  and they lived just up the Lane.. The two horses had the names Cheyanne and Apache and where huge Shire horses...........May Day the horses and
carts got dressed with bells and flowers ribbons and bows
I have a cinefilm of my son feeding Apache on May Day trouble
is the tape is so faded after 50 years one can hardly see it
 
It was also on the local news on TV
 
Oh dont I ramble on, sorry.

[celeste]

Used to have milk delivered but one always has to have the right change when they knock at the door so I prefer to buy it with the the groceries.
Pity we can't see your cine-film it would interest people and don't bother about rambling on, your posts are enjoyable just as they are

[Jim44]

We also used to have milk deliverd, many years ago, by the same milkman who waves. but it kept getting stolen from ouitside the house so decided to cancel.

[Cupcake]

It's one of those things that's making a bit of a comeback.  When I was a kid, everyone got their milk from the local milkman.  Ten years ago, there was no milkman here at all, everyone went to the supermarkets.  Over the last few years, it's crept back steadily, so I reckon maybe a third of my neighbours now get milk delivered.   The other thing that's getting more common is vegbox delivery.  Local farms send you a box of assorted fruit and veg according to the season, for a fixed price.  You can stipulate things you don't want, and quite a lot of the boxes are organic produce.  There are at least two such schemes delivering here. 
 
I reckon a milkman who came round with a horse and cart would do a roaring trade.  I would pay just for the pleasure of seeing it.  Last horse and cart we had here was "rag and bone" and that was decades ago.  Now we get dodgy looking blokes in flat bed trucks scavenging - and one lot swiped two iron bench ends off my front patio! 

[Hovis St.]

I can remember the school milk being delivered to our school (Elysian St. Openshaw) during the war. It came on a horse and cart from Dales Dairy. I even remember the milkmans name, Ronnie, a big blond haired man who sometimes let you have a ride on the cart.

We used to take turns to be "milk monitor". It was a good job as it got you off a few lessons. It was delivered to the main entrance and we had to take it round to the various classrooms. Happy days.

Alec.