1900's First Bowyer's premises at 310 Lee High Road, Lewisham (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1900's Location of first Bowyer's premises at 310 Lee High Road, Lewisham (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1920's Bowyer's West Wickham shop (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1925 Milk Distributive Trades Board document. Disabled workers could be awarded wages less than the minimum, by order of the Board.
1930's Robert Bowyer Senior (Hilary's grandfather) at West Wickham (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1940's 'George' Bowyer at the bottling line at West Wickham (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1940's Bowyer's fleet on parade at West Wickham (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1940's Delivery van at West Wickham (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1946 R Bowyer and Sons, letter heading
1950's? Bowyer's Show Horse, Champion at Windsor and Regent's Park (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1950's advertisement. Hilary McCluskey remembers that at Bowyers Dairy, Shirley, we put short poems on our bottles! For example: 'Please rinse me quick, And put me out, For I can hear, The Milkman about'. The elderly mother of one of our clerks used to compose them!" (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1950's Bowyer's laboratory at Shirley. Left: Rose, who worked with George during the war. Right: Betty Bowyer, youngest sister. (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1950's? Bowyer's first Wales and Edwards electric milk float. (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1950's? Bowyer's Widmore Road shop, Bromley (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1959 Bowyer's 50 year celebration (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1960's Shirley Depot at 568 Wickham Road, Shirley (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1960's Hilary Bowyer's "Company Car". (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1964 Bowyer's sold to Express Dairy (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
1972 Elsie Bedford and Rose Baker from Upper Norwood at London Merit and Service Dinner. Hilary Bowyer comments "How great for me to see these two clerks. I was an Area Clerical Supervisor when I met Elsie at Gypsy Hill. A really cheerful person and always smiling. It was known to be advisable never to book a holiday the same time as she took hers as it ALWAYS RAINED whenever she went on holiday - never failed! I knew Rose from childhood as she started working for my father where we processed and bottled milk during the war at West Wickham. After the end of the war, when the men returned, Rose worked in our Laboratory based at Shirley and finally ended up as a clerk on the closure of our Shirley Processing Centre at the takeover by Express Dairy. Very mixed memories for me as Rose, her lovely Mum and four sisters were part of my growing up." Paul Batchelor remembers "I used to work at Upper Norwood in those tiny little sheds on the milk floats. I remember one of the managers Dickie Herbert and a milkman Freddie Hough." (Express News Summer)
2005 - Post retirement article about Hilary Bowyer's charitable activities in Africa. (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
2005 Hilary Bowyer (Courtesy Hilary McCluskey/Bowyer)
2023 History of R. Bowyer and Sons-Page 2
2023 History of R. Bowyer and Sons-Page 1
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2023 History of R. Bowyer and Sons-Page 3
2023 History of R. Bowyer and Sons-Page 5
2025 More memories of Bowyers-Rose Baker (Express Dairy Tales publication)
