IN DEPTH
George Barham set up the Dairy Supply Company in Coptic Street; later the Company was run by his youngest son, Arthur Barham and expanded with branches in Edinburgh and Belfast. Read this illustrated account which shows the London headquarters as they still exist today, as a Pizza Express restaurant.
1888 Express Dairy Co. stoneware cream jars commemorating 'First Prize for Cream' at the Dairy Show. The 'Dairy Show' was founded in 1876 and held annually at The Agricultural Hall, Islington up to the early 1930's when the show moved to the then newly built Olympia. Left jar: holds 10 fl. oz. and stands 5" high, Centre jar: holds 5 fl. oz. and stands 4" high, Right jar: holds 2.5 fl. oz. and stands 2.9" high. (Courtesy Mark Hudson)
1888 Express Dairy Co. stoneware cream jars commemorating 'First Prize for Cream' at the Dairy Show, supplied by the Dairy Supply Company. Left jar: holds 10 fl. oz. and stands 5" high, Centre jar: holds 5 fl. oz. and stands 4" high, Right jar: holds 2.5 fl. oz. and stands 2.9" high. (Courtesy Mark Hudson)
1890's The Dairy Supply Company, Coptic Street, from framed picture in Pizza Express 2016. (Courtesy Baldwin Hamey, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dairy-supply-company/)
The Dairy Supply Company, Coptic Street (Courtesy Baldwin Hamey, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dairy-supply-company/)
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)
1900's Dairy Supply Company milk can, made for
Dairy Supply Co. Ltd utensils and equipment from the Strathnairn rally, September 2014, and the Scottish National Tractor Show, Lanark, September 2015 (Courtesy Heather Holmes, Dairying with the Dairy Supply Co. Ltd, Edinburgh)
Dairy Supply Co. Ltd utensils and equipment from the Strathnairn rally, September 2014, and the Scottish National Tractor Show, Lanark, September 2015 (Courtesy Heather Holmes, Dairying with the Dairy Supply Co. Ltd, Edinburgh)
Dairy Supply Co. Ltd utensils and equipment from the Strathnairn rally, September 2014, and the Scottish National Tractor Show, Lanark, September 2015 (Courtesy Heather Holmes, Dairying with the Dairy Supply Co. Ltd, Edinburgh)
1900's Dairy Supply Company catalogue-Bottle Discs. After George Barham's death in 1913 the Dairy Supply Company was headed by Arthur Barham. (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1900's Dairy Supply Company catalogue-Bottles and Refrigerator. After George Barham's death in 1913 the Dairy Supply Company was headed by Arthur Barham. (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1900's Dairy Supply Company catalogue-Delivery Barrows. After George Barham's death in 1913 the Dairy Supply Company was headed by Arthur Barham. (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1910 Egg-tester, supplied by the Dairy Supply Company. Illustration for The Book of the Home edited by C E Humphry. (Courtesy Look and Learn)
1931, from Dairy Supply Co. Ltd accounts department : Cumberland Avenue, Park Royal, London, N.W.10. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
1948 Letter from the Dairy Supply Company to J B S Haldane, UCL (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
1948 Receipted Invoice from the Dairy Supply Company to Professor J B S Haldane, UCL (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
1948 Dairy Supply Company Catalogue Entries (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
1948 Dairy Supply Company Catalogue Entries (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
1954 Dairy Supply Company advert in the 'Milk Producer' MMB magazine (Express Dairy Tales archive)
1958 Obituary of Mr R.J. Hewson, Director of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express News July)
The Dairy Supply Company, Coptic Street (Courtesy Baldwin Hamey, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dairy-supply-company/)
Dairy Supply Company (now Pizza Express) Architect: R.P. Wheelock. 1888. Location: 30 Coptic Street and Little Russell Street, WC1. Courtesy(Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/architectural/92.html)
Dairy Supply Company (now Pizza Express) Architect: R.P. Wheelock. 1888. Location: 30 Coptic Street and Little Russell Street, WC1. Courtesy(Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/architectural/92.html)
Dairy Supply Company (now Pizza Express) Architect: R.P. Wheelock. 1888. Location: 30 Coptic Street and Little Russell Street, WC1. Courtesy(Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/architectural/92.html)
Dairy Supply Company (now Pizza Express) Architect: R.P. Wheelock. 1888. Location: 30 Coptic Street and Little Russell Street, WC1. Courtesy(Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/architectural/92.html)
Dairy Supply Company (now Pizza Express) Architect: R.P. Wheelock. 1888. Location: 30 Coptic Street and Little Russell Street, WC1. Courtesy(Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/architectural/92.html)
The Dairy Supply Company, Coptic Street. Inscription, above a door, on a cartouche:AD 1888, on the plaque below: Directors: Viscount Combermere, J. C. Lawrance, QC, MP, George Barham, Secretary R. W. Shackleton, and a monogram: DSCL. (Courtesy Baldwin Hamey, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dairy-supply-company/)
Dairy Supply Company (now Pizza Express) Architect: R.P. Wheelock. 1888. Location: 30 Coptic Street and Little Russell Street, WC1. Courtesy(Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/architectural/92.html)
The Dairy Supply Company, Coptic Street (Courtesy Baldwin Hamey, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dairy-supply-company/)
The Dairy Supply Company, Coptic Street (Courtesy Baldwin Hamey, https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dairy-supply-company/)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
2023 Illustrated History of the Dairy Supply Company. (Express Dairy Tales publication)
Dairy Supply Company. Helen White comments "My grandad Joseph Stockwell worked for the Dairy Supply Company, and his apprentice was Jet Harris (Rock Musician, ex 'The Shadows', 1939-2011) Brian Hobbs adds "I also worked at Dairy Supply Co. from 1958 to 1964, and remember Joe Stockwell. I have been aware of the Museum Street offices from those early days, retained as the Registered Office and very much of architectural interest. My engineering career took shape alongside Jet Harris as an apprentice trainee working my way through to the Drawing Office. Innovation seemed to be the order of the day – the “Silent Revolution” where noisy milk bottle deliveries in metal crates were replaced by the first UK plastic crate, plus DESCO (trade name) also led the field and development of bulk farm tanks." (Courtesy Helen White)
1932 Park Royal Estate, showing location of Dairy Supply Company off Cumberland Avenue (Courtesy National Library of Scotland)
1933 Park Royal Estate, showing location of Dairy Supply Company off Cumberland Avenue. Roger Cox comments "My grandfather, Ernest Moggridge worked for Dairy Supply in Cumberland Avenue, Park Royal. I believe my grandfather was on site security and lived in a tied house almost opposite . I'm not sure of the dates but Guinness Brewery was at the top end of Cumberland and I can recall as a child the many pitched roof buildings along the road. Park Royal vehicles was nearby, nowadays Diageo is at the top." (Courtesy English Heritage)
Development of Park Royal over the years "At the start of the 20th century Park Royal was no more than a modest rural area, albeit with railway lines woven across it and a workhouse. During the First World War the area became a vital munitions supplier and thereafter it was utterly transformed, crammed with factories producing an extraordinary range of industrial and domestic products. At one time the main landowners, Allnatts, were building two factories a week at Park Royal. By 1932 there were 83 factories employing 13,400. The photo in 1937 shows how densely developed the area has become, with works producing goods of every variety; foodstuffs, packaging, electrical and mechanical engineering, radios, condensers, cosmetics and vehicles. World famous products originated at Park Royal, from biscuits to buses, beans to magazines. The Vandervell factory on Western Avenue was the home of the Vanwall racing car, driven by Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks to win the World Championship in 1958. London Transport’s celebrated Routemaster bus was made here. The biggest employers were Heinz, employing 3,500 at their peak in 1964 and producing a million tins of baked beans a day; Guinness, at one time the world’s biggest brewery, and McVities in Waxlow Road, where by the Second World War 2000 workers were making 300 varieties of biscuit." (Courtesy Old Oak and Park Royal Heritage Strategy, Final report March 2017, Allies and Morrison, Urban Practitioners)
Dairy Supply Company (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company, Joseph Stockwell sitting on the right. (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company front entrance (Courtesy Helen White)
Dairy Supply Company (Courtesy Helen White)
