1900's ? Old plaque for sale by J Frances Antiques
1976 Tithe Farm, Frith Manor Farm and Cricklewood Dairy History (EDT)
1933 Cricklewood visit of the Duke of Kent visit
1936 Filling line at Cricklewood - a maintenance record card (Courtesy Margaret Newman FB)
1930's Cricklewood from Express Story published in 1964, 1864 - 1964
1930's Cricklewood (Courtesy Craig Wells Dairy Commercial Vehicles FB Group)
1950's Cricklewood? (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1933 Express exhibition vehicle outside Cricklewood Dairy in Claremont Road. (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1945 A scene at Cricklewood bottling depot around late 1945 with, on the left, fleet no 594, AWO 298, a 12-ton Foden ‘DG’, first registered in Monmouth in April 1936, on chassis no 17024. It was purchased by the dairy in July 1943, from Fodens at Sandbach, for £1,751, with the box body being fitted at the end of the year at a further cost of £352. It passed to Birds at Stratford in March 1947, for £650. On the right, the ERF fleet no 605, GRB 939, on chassis no 2230, was first registered in Derby in August 1940. It was obtained from Murphy Bros of Leicester in August 1943, for £3,200, then received a new box body in December 1943, costing £378. Disposal followed in July 1947, again to Birds for £1,000. In the centre was perhaps a lone survivor of the many AECs to join the Express. This Mammoth Major, fleet no 293, chassis no 366099, DLM 480, was first registered in December 1936. At the time of its purchase, two Sentinel steamers, waggon nos 1581/82, fleet nos 37 & 38, were taken in part-exchange, at £20 each. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1950's Cricklewood. Gina Jackson comments "This is my late grandfather George Turner, I believe he was a catering manager at Express Dairy Cricklewood. On the back is written 'Mr Gibson (left), assistant manager and grandad George Sydney Turner, manager Express Dairy.'" (Courtesy Gina Jackson)
1950's David Ashby comments "Susan Grainger bridesmaid (in blue) at St Peters Church Cricklewood Lane"
1952 'The Express Dairy' Booklet
1952 'The Express Dairy' Booklet
1952 'The Express Dairy' Booklet
1920's Cricklewood Dairy brochure (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1920's 'Some Interesting Data' about Cricklewood Dairy (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1931 Express Rail Tank. Matthew Pinto comments "One of the very first 6-wheeled milk tanks built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for Express Dairies (earlier rail tanks were 4-wheeled and rode very roughly at high speeds). It is shown here at Cricklewood depot. Note the semi-cylindrical sunshade. These were common on early tanks but their effectiveness was questionable and the feature was eventually abandoned." (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1952 'The Express Dairy' Booklet
1952 'The Express Dairy' Booklet
1956 Milk Processing article featuring Cricklewood & South Morden, which had just been opened
1956 Pen & Ink drawing of Cricklewood Dairy, published in Express News July 1956
1950's ? Cricklewood Dairy and chimney
1950's Cricklewood. Matthew Pinto comments "Yes, think it is Cricklewood. It looks like the loading area at the south end near the railway sidings." (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1956 Milk Processing article featuring Cricklewood & South Morden, which had just been opened
1956 Milk Processing article featuring Cricklewood & South Morden, which had just been opened
1956 Milk Processing article featuring Cricklewood & South Morden, which had just been opened
1950's ? Cricklewood Dairy from Express Journey (Book)
1954 Refrigerated cold store, probably Cricklewood. (Express Salesman's Manual Fourth Edition)
1945 Taken at Cricklewood, this shows another mixture of box vans lined up at Cricklewood. The attractive TSC18 Leyland Beaver on the left, was one of a number of these purchased in 1942. A second, petrol-engined Mammoth Major, fleet no 303, supplied in December 1936 is seen on the right, and wears diminutive wartime headlights. The Atkinson in the centre, however, has a large set, and was another second-hand purchase from Murphy Bros of Leicester. New on January 1st, 1938, chassis no FC514 was fitted with a Gardner 5LW no 40725, fleet no 604, FRF 492. It was purchased in August 1943 for £2,750, and sold to Birds of Stratford on 28/1/47, for £1,175. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1954 Cricklewood Laboratory. (Express Salesman's Manual Fourth Edition)
1954 Cricklewood Bottling Lines. (Express Salesman's Manual Fourth Edition)
1950's Cricklewood Bottling Line. Philip Boyd comments "There were 10 Alka fillers, replaced with 4 UDEC. There were also five bottle washers, replaced with two. This is how it was when I joined in 1957. You can see 10 temperature recorders and there were no recraters-these were developed later by engineer Mr Frank George. Cricklewood also had a second bottling hall with two fillers and one bottle washer, for bottling gold top (CI) milk." (Still from Steve Wheeler Milk Bottle Museum film)
1950's Cricklewood ? (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1956 Maude Beauchamp, canteen manageress at Cricklewood Dairy
1957 Childrens' parties at South Morden, Cricklewood and Appleby
1958 FW Thomas, manager of Cricklewood Dairy
1958 Jack 'Snowball' Lethbridge retires from Cricklewood dairy after 35 years
1958 Cricklewood checker Bob Cox presents an engraved watch to Mr F.W. Thomas to commemorate 7 years as manager. (Express News July)
1959 South Morden welcomes visitors to the International Dairy Congress. (Express News October)
1959 International Visitors to Express sites at Cricklewood, South Morden, Northolt and Harrow Road (IMS)
1959 International Visitors to Express sites at Cricklewood, South Morden, Northolt and Harrow Road (IMS)
1959 Cricklewood Laboratory managers Messrs Ryan and Ron Cloake receive City & Guilds Awards
1960's Mick Culverhouse unloading a Cricklewood delivery, photo courtesty of Victoria Culverhouse from Facebook
1960's? Bill Boyd, celebrating with a colleague. Phil Boyd comments "My Dad was a bottling hall foreman, he worked at Cricklewood, South Morden, College Farm, Brentford and Ruislip. We lived in Claremont road opposite the dairy". Chris Austen comments "Leo Kirkland on the right; Leo and I were colleagues in the Work Study department, headed up by Philip Saxon." (Courtesy Phil Boyd)
1960's Cricklewood. Bulk Tanker (Courtesy Craig Wells)
1960's? Collection from Cricklewood
1960's? Independent Wholesale Dairies (IWD) operated from Cricklewood
1964 Cricklewood from Express Story 1864 - 1964
1965 All stations to Cricklewood - story of a milk train journey from Seaton Junction to Cricklewood Page 1 (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 All stations to Cricklewood - story of a milk train journey from Seaton Junction to Cricklewood Page 3 (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 All stations to Cricklewood - story of a milk train journey from Seaton Junction to Cricklewood Page 4 (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 "A mechanical glow-worm: an electric hurtles through the night; in the small hours: gathering steam for the last leg at Kensington Olympia' Journey's end: the brightly lit siding of our Cricklewood bottling dairy" (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 Cricklewood Dairy rail siding. (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1966 Cricklewood - Manager 'Jimmy' James presented with silver Tetra Pak crate to celebrate filling one million cartons in a week. Also features Tom Penfold, Denis Avins and Tony Gardiner. Reg Sharp comments "Mr James was a great manager, always had time for his staff."
1967 London Long Service Dinner, with Cricklewood's Gus Cushen celebrating 40 years. (Express News Summer)
1968 'Portrait Gallery' from Cricklewood Dairy (Jimmy James JP)
1968 'Portrait Gallery' from Cricklewood Dairy (Alice Phillips, Peggy Doyle, Charlie Wright)
1968 'Portrait Gallery' from Cricklewood Dairy (Gordon Ellis, Mary Brennan, Percy Attwood)
1968 'Portrait Gallery' from Cricklewood Dairy (Gareth Williams, Sid Carter, Terry Fraser)
1968 Sid Carter, Fork Lift Driver
1968 Marshall's Wholesale Delivery Truck in Regent's Street, London. Reg WMC 315G. Hilary Mccluskey comments "Marshall’s brings back memories. When we were running Bowyers Dairy, if I forgot to include, say a yogurt, on a delivery to one of our London Hospital customers; I would ‘phone Marshalls and they would pop it round by car for us! Thus saving my ‘bacon’. Companies would help each other out in the old days." (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1969 Long Service Dinner for Cricklewood staff (Express News Summer)
1969 Frank Gaylard with John Hunter, at Cricklewood Long Service Dinner. (Express News Summer)
1970 Bill Boyd receiving his gold watch as 30 year award from Walter Nell. Phil Boyd comments "My Dad was a bottling hall foreman, he worked at Cricklewood, South Morden, College Farm, Brentford and Ruislip. We lived in Claremont road opposite the dairy" (Courtesy Phil Boyd)
1971 Retirements from Cricklewood Dairy
1972 Cricklewood Lunch with retirees
1972 Cricklewood dog lovers 'Taffy' and Diane Thomas at home. 'Taffy' worked on the dairy floor since 1937, and was Cricklewood Shop Steward and Brent Trades Council President. (Express News Spring)
1972 Eric Robarts announced the sale of Tavistock Place, relocation of Bloomsbury retail to Wakefield Street and Marshall's to Cricklewood, Alresford Depot to Southampton and the 'phasing out' of Lapford and move to North Tawton, (Express News Christmas)
1972 retirements-Marie McCaskill, senior microbiologist at Cricklewood and Colindale. (Express News Christmas)
1973 John Travers Clarke announces the death of Jimmy James, former manager at Cricklewood. (Express News Summer)
1973 Rob Battle from Marshall's Dairies with Les Hose from Sydenham.(Express News Autumn)
1974 Kenny Spence (Cricklewood Assistant Depot Engineer), Ted Walden (West Hampstead Shop Steward), Bill Spencer (TGWU) and Fred Battle (Dairy Trade Committee). (Express News Summer)
1975 Bill Tagg, Cricklewod Processing assistant manager helps organise childrens' parties, and this letter was composed by John Reynolds' grand-daughter, Michelle Mercer. "Dear Sirs, My Grandad, who is Mr John Reynolds, will be retiring from the Express next week after working there for a long long time. I would like to thank EVERYBODY who must have worked hard to give their lovely Christmas parties every year. I have had lots of nice presents and I just wanted to thank you ALL. HAPPY NEW YEAR, From Michelle Mercer (10 years old)." (Express News Spring)
1975 Mary Reeves - Canteen Superintendant visits
1975 Mary Reeves - Canteen Superintendant
1975 Mary Reeves - Canteen Superintendant visits
1975 Cricklewood-The up slow platform buildings with the Express Dairy bottling plant, built in 1929 behind. This was rail connected and had it's own locomotive, a Ruston & Hornsby 4wDM, between 1945 and 1954. Kevin Lane, Flickr
1978 Memories of Sentinel Steam lorries, by Percy Attwood. Harold Burfield, Harry Moore, Joe Davidson, Cricklewood and Blackheath are all mentioned. (Express News Autumn)
1979 Cricklewood Dairy welcomes visitors, from Tempelhof, Germany, the borough's twin town. Ralph Emerson (sic) demonstrating. Suzanne Croombs (FB) comments that Tempelhof-schöneberg is still on the twinnng list, but always under Barnet, rather than Cricklewood. There are seven other Barnet twinnings, but I know they're also twinned with Barnet in Vermont, so eight twinnings really + Temelhof.
1980's Cricklewood Bottom Yard. Dave Fane comments "In the mid 1980s there used to be about a dozen Eden Vale vans parked on the left where the DAF van is. I imagine the platform on the right is where they unloaded the trunker with the dairy products for these vehicles." (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1981 Cricklewood Processing
1981 Cricklewood Processing
1981 Cricklewood Processing
1981 Len Elsey wraps a pallet of sterilised milk
1982 Cricklewood visit
1983 Cricklewood Football Team
1984 Cricklewood football teams
1986 Ralph Emerson as Cricklewood Manager
1987 Launch of 'Vital' calcium-enriched milk, produced at Cricklewood and Exeter
1988 August Express News Front Cover - Cricklewood new carton lines
1988 Cricklewood new carton lines (Express News August)
1988 Shikoku carton fillers installed at Cricklewood
1980's Cricklewood recognised by Antony Simmons. (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1980's Cricklewood polybottle line (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1989 'Stripes' UHT flavoured milk reformulated, and with a foil top, featured on BBC 'Food and Drink' with Chris Kelly.
1989 Milk processing strategy review (Tops Magazine-First Edition)
