1890's? Early milk bottle. (Courtesy Steve Wheeler Milk Bottle Museum)
1900's? bottles. Jimmy Reid comments "Peter 'Pickles' Haywood, former Express Exeter transport manager used to collect milk bottles. I remember him being interviewed about his collection in his garage on 'Spotlight Southwest' about 2014"
1900's Primrose and Len bottle. John Hakeman comments "My best mate Peter used to help our local P&L milkman on Saturdays in the early ‘60s. I stood in for him when Peter was on holidays. The old milky was known as 'The General'! He was a right character shouting out directions in a nice way though. 2 pints for no 6, 1 pint of gold top for number 8, etc etc. He was just like Clive Dunn, Corporal Jones in 'Dads Army'. (Courtesy John Hakeman)
1900's Primrose and Len bottle. (Courtesy John Hakeman)
Early half-pint milk bottle from the Primrose Dairy at 32 King Street, Maidstone. (Courtesy Robert Church, More Memories Of Maidstone FB Group)
1900's C M Robarts enamelled bottle from 100 Acre Farm, Northwood. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
Express Milk Bottles (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Steve Wheeler's Milk Bottle Museum
A1 Dairies bottle. (Courtesy Mark Amies)
1950's enamelled promotional pint bottle. Paul Smith comments "There are at least three different butter advert bottles." (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1950's? Express Milk Bottle (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1950's 1/3 pint school milk bottle (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1950's Express milk in enamelled bottles (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1950's Express homogenised milk, with College Farm enamelled bottle (Courtesy Paul Smith)
Cardboard bottle tops inscribed with the logo of Kilmaurs Dairy Farmers Ltd. Object No : EAGL007n (Courtesy futuremuseum.co.uk)
1955 Kilmaurs Dairy Farmers bottle. John Buchanan MacGilp comments "Presumably from the creamery on Crosshouse road? My grandad worked for them picking up milk, sometimes as far away as Girvan. My dad used to help him when he was at school. (Courtesy Neil Mackenzie, Kilmaurs And Stewarton Memories FB Group)
Kilmaurs ½ pint bottle. Neil Mackenzie comments "Found under the floorboards in a church in Paisley". (Courtesy Neil Mackenzie)
1950's? Express enamelled bottles (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1950's? Express enamelled bottles (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Express Milk Bottles (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's Express Milk Bottles (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Express Milk Bottles (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's ? Express bottles (From Andrew Bell, Instagram)
1970's 1 pint milk bottle, before 'pintie' (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1970's Express enamelled pintie bottle collection (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1970's? 'Milk Minder'/ bird protector/ cooler. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1990's Express Wakefield bottle cap (Courtesy Mark Hudson)
Orange Juice bottle caps (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Pasteurised and homogenised milk bottle caps from South Morden (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1980's Express Dairy South Ruislip - die used for stamping foil for caps (dates were inserted into slot) (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1900's Dairy Supply Company milk can, made for
1930's 17 Gallon Churns, at the Didcot Rail Centre, 2024
1930's 17 Gallon Churns, at the Didcot Rail Centre, 2024
1930's? Express Dairy Milk Can (Courtesy Paul Smith)
2024 Beryl Purslove memorabilia-hand milk churn. (Courtesy Beryl Purslove)
1950's? Galvanised steel 10-gallon churn at the North Norfolk Railway. (Courtesy Allan Dawes)
1950's Milk Churn label, these were attached to a small circular lug on the neck of milk churns, to identify the farm and total consignment. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1950's Milk Churn label, reverse side. These were attached to a small circular lug on the neck of milk churns, to identify the farm and total consignment. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1960's Primrose and Len 10 gallon churn (Courtesy Brian Clarke, Maidstone Past FB Group)
1960's Blank milk churn label. Fields include: gallons in this churn, total gallons, number of churns, address. Guarantee of "sweet, clean and marketable" Channel Islands milk on the back. Each churn had a label, pressed onto a stud on the neck of the churn, to indicate the producer and contents... (Courtesy Peoples Collection Wales - Michael Morgan)
1960's Blank milk churn label. Fields include: gallons in this churn, total gallons, number of churns, address. Guarantee of "sweet, clean and marketable" Channel Islands milk on the back. (Courtesy Peoples Collection Wales - Michael Morgan)
2023 Leslie Croxford's great collection of Express Dairy memorabilia (Courtesy Leslie Croxford)
Paul Smith's collection
Steve Wheeler Milk Bottle Museum
2023 'Dairy to Doorstep' collection at the MERL. (Courtesy Museum of English Rural Life)
2023 Bottle Collection at MERL, Reading (Courtesy Museum of English Rural Life)
1970's? Express Red crates - Allan Dawes comments "Back in the good old days we were all issued with a red crate to put damaged or foreign bottles in." (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1998 Peter Rowland explains "I've tried to show how you can see old crates are: this was made for Express in July 1998. The clock faces show the dates."
1990's? North Tawton Cheese Storage crate. Ron Iles comments "Good strong boxes but a b*gger to get the 40 pound block cheese out." Tim Schofield comments "These were modified after a couple of years, holes were drilled into the bases. This allowed air into the bottom to release the vacuum/suction that the cheese caused." Dai Williams said "Remember these well. Never had enough in stock for the April flush !! Also the 4-post metal pallets that they were loaded onto for storage. No mobile racking required in those days. Mark Hudson adds "The circles at the top left and right of the crate show the month and year of manufacture... 1982 in this case." (Courtesy Phillip Budd)
1870's? Victorian cream/ milk bowl for shop counter. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1880's Clotted Cream Jars, College Farm (Courtesy Mark Hudson)
1888 Cream jar found in 1984 at West Drayton, Middlesex
1888 Cream Jar from Bollo Lane
1888 Cream Jars (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1890s? Horners Cream jar. Alex Dickinson comments "William Horner patented his clotted cream in September 1884. The pots were made in the Potteries and delivered to Acton Bridge along the Trent & Mersey Canal." (Courtesy Clare Kay)
1890 Victorian Devonshire clotted cream pot, made by the Dairy Supply Company. Height, 11.5cm, Diameter, 6.3cm (Courtesy jfrancesantiques.co.uk)
1890 Victorian Devonshire clotted cream pot, made by the Dairy Supply Company. Height, 11.5cm, Diameter, 6.3cm (Courtesy jfrancesantiques.co.uk)
Express Dairy cream pots (Courtesy John Ault, Real Diggers FB Group)
Express dairy cream pot London David comments "5 inches tall, rare in this size." (Courtesy David Matthews, Real Diggers FB Group)
Express dairy cream pot London David comments "5 inches tall, rare in this size." (Courtesy David Matthews, Real Diggers FB Group)
1918 Primrose Dairy, pre Primrose and Len. (Courtesy Mark Whyman)
Cream pots from the Primrose Dairy in Maidstone, There are three different sizes and two different addresses in King Street, 16 and 32. (Courtesy Robert Church, More Memories Of Maidstone FB Group)
1913 Cream Jar advertising the newly opened Chiswick shop. (Courtesy Twickenham Park Residents Association)
1930's? Blue top cream jar with King's Royal Coat of Arms
1933 Ann Cator "Two women filling jugs at a milk vending machine, 18 February 1933. Milking the 'iron cow' at the Putney Dairy in London. By placing a coin in the machine it is possible to obtain a desired quantity of milk after closing time'." (Courtesy Ann Cator)
Express Dairy cream jug (Courtesy Laurence Cooper, Real Diggers FB Group)
Express Dairy cream pots (Courtesy John Ault, Real Diggers FB Group)
Dumfriesshire Dairy Company, Lockerbie cream pots. (Courtesy Stew Digger, Real Diggers FB Group)
1900's collection of Express product labels and posters
1960's Paper Bags. Front 2. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Paper Bags. Front 1. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Paper Bags. Back 1. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1960's Paper Bags. Back 2. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1964 Promotional Shop Paper Bag (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
Pergall MilkPak containers at MERL, Reading. (Courtesy Museum of English Rural Life)
1967 Ski Carton, Strawberry, also from Eden Vale story so far... (Courtesy Mark Ludgate, FB)
1967 Eden Vale story so far... (Express News Summer)
1970's? Ski yogurt selection (Courtesy Mark Woodhead)
1980's ? Cuddington Ski Carton (Courtesy Tim Randles)
1910's? Express Dairy stoneware ginger beer with a Royal insignia (Queen Victoria). Mark comments "Express Dairy received it’s royal warrant in 1895 from when it proudly displayed the Royal insignia alongside its name. By the turn of the nineteenth century Express Dairy was running tea houses (light refreshment restaurants) across London and was manufacturing the majority of it’s own foods and beverages including ginger beer." (Courtesy Mark Hudson)
1900's? Delivery Box, with interesting list of Express Farms (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1940's Express Dairy 'EMPIRE HONEY' jar. (Courtesy Milkmark Mark Hudson, Real Diggers FB Group)
