Larger scale location map of Billingshurst Creamery (Courtesy Matthew Pinto)
1930's Billingshurst Creamery. Caption reads "In the 1930s cooling stations were erected near many country railway stations. Here a line up of Bedford collection lorries delivers to such a station on the Southern Railway in Sussex. In 1935 the Express Dairy fleet numbered 302 vehicles." Chris Austen comments "I spent a few weeks at Billingshurst in 1959; Derek Gray was the manager. Ex-farm milk was cooled using a brine cooler; one had to be very careful not to freeze the product - otherwise it would come cascading out of the cooling system!" (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1930's Compliments slip (King George V died in January 1936), showing the Express Creameries at that time: Appleby, Billingshurst, Faringdon, Horam, Rowsley, Frome, Seaton Junction, Leyburn and Brailsford. (Courtesy Keith Sweetland)
Billingshurst Creamery, erected in the late 1920's, was the first country depot to be built by Express.
1931 Billingshurst Creamery churn tipping, from Express Story 1864 - 1964. Chris Austen comments "I spent a few weeks at Billingshurst in 1959; Derek Gray was the manager. Ex-farm milk was cooled using a brine cooler; one had to be very careful not to freeze the product - otherwise it would come cascading out of the cooling system!!"
1950 Map of Express Dairy Co. locations. Appleby, Bideford, Billingshurst, Bradford, Chester, Chesterfield, Dewsbury, Egham, Faringdon, Frome, Horam' Greater London (2 Farms, 5 Bottling Centres, 116 Retail Branches, 250 Dairy Shops), Leyburn, Midlands (Wholesale Depots, Milk Bottling Dairies, Retail Branches, Milk Delivery, Cheese Factories, Milk Collection), Rowsley, Seaton Junction, Sheffield, Tarvin (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1950's Billingshurst Creamery (Courtesy Matthew Pinto)
