Read about the 'Forgotten milkmaids and cows of St James’s and Green Park', an illustrated extract from '‘Memoirs of a Metro Girl" blog, about cow-keeping in Central London parks, published in 2023
Read about the supply of Goat's Milk for London, in the 1860's onwards, from an article in St. James's Gazette, 1882
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.
