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Stilton Cheese - Story from 'The Great North Road'
Web article from the village near Peterborough that gave Stilton Cheese its name.
Reprint of an article about Seaton Junction station by Rick Wood, published by Umborne.org
(16 pages with illustrations, pdf)
The Milk Supply of a London Borough (Finsbury) was published in 1903 by Dr George Newman, the Finsbury Medical Officer of Health. It traced the supply of milk from over a thousand farms, through 14 'wholesalers', also direct supply from around 50 rounds that obtained supplies from other farms, and around a dozen shops that obtained their milk from local town cowsheds. He found many issues with lack of hygiene, adulteration with water and preservatives (formalin), TB and (lack of) temperature control.
(pdf, 37 pages)
(pdf, 37 pages)
Academic article about the development of the milk trade in the UK during the 20th Century, by Chris Otter
Department of History, The Ohio State University, USA
(pdf, 16 pages, plus references)
Department of History, The Ohio State University, USA
(pdf, 16 pages, plus references)
The Society of Dairy Technology published a very comprehensive review "The Evolution of the British Cheese Industry", written by Nigel White, 2018
(pdf, 168 pages)
(pdf, 168 pages)
Tower Creameries became Mitcham Foods, and was acquired by Express Dairy in 1960.
This fascinating story is by Irene Bain, who recorded her memories of working there in the 1940s. She began at the creamery as a messenger girl in 1944; her duties took her into almost every department and office, and her memoir is illuminated by sketches of the people who worked in them. Irene moved on to the Accounts Department and then the Typists Room, and gives us a real feel for working there, with some lively anecdotes. ‘It was a lovely place to work’, she says.
(pdf, 12 pages, Merton Historical Society)
This fascinating story is by Irene Bain, who recorded her memories of working there in the 1940s. She began at the creamery as a messenger girl in 1944; her duties took her into almost every department and office, and her memoir is illuminated by sketches of the people who worked in them. Irene moved on to the Accounts Department and then the Typists Room, and gives us a real feel for working there, with some lively anecdotes. ‘It was a lovely place to work’, she says.
(pdf, 12 pages, Merton Historical Society)
Job's Dairies published their magazine 'The Book of Job' over many years. The complete set of editions has been digitised, thanks to the Roberts Foundation.
A1 Dairies was acquired by Express in 1966. This document describes the farms that A1 operated
in North London and Hertfordshire.
in North London and Hertfordshire.
(5 pages with illustrations, pdf)
Milk Trails around Euston
In this People's Museum article by Esther Leslie, site workers on new buildings unearth remnants of the dairies that once served the local population, tracing the area’s milky history, from cow pastures to rapid urbanisation, and from milk adulteration to the 20th-century emphasis on the health benefits of dairy products.
In this People's Museum article by Esther Leslie, site workers on new buildings unearth remnants of the dairies that once served the local population, tracing the area’s milky history, from cow pastures to rapid urbanisation, and from milk adulteration to the 20th-century emphasis on the health benefits of dairy products.