Canonbury
1950's Newington Green Delivery Float, outside Canonbury depot in Newington Green Road. Reg: HYH 980, Fleet No. E216. Dave Fane comments "Built by Brush electric vehicles". (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1969 Profile of nine top milkmen in London - Albert Harvey (Canonbury), Stan Mordue (Amersham)
1980's? Canonbury Uniform Requisition Form (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1982 Canonbury Michael Aldread comments "My photos from Canonbury in 1982 when I first started with Express Dairy. Happy days 😀"
1982 Canonbury Michael Aldread comments "My photos from Canonbury in 1982 when I first started with Express Dairy. Happy days 😀"
1982 Canonbury Michael Aldread comments "My photos from Canonbury in 1982 when I first started with Express Dairy. Happy days 😀"
1982 Canonbury Michael Aldread comments "My photos from Canonbury in 1982 when I first started with Express Dairy. Happy days 😀"
1982 Canonbury Michael Aldread comments "My photos from Canonbury in 1982 when I first started with Express Dairy. Happy days 😀"
1983 Canonbury Depot (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
2012 Canonbury Depot (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Carshalton
Horses on display at Carshalton Depot. Lee Durham comments "Second from the left I’m pretty sure that is my uncle Vic Chapman. He loved horses and taught me to ride to a high standard. Rumour has it he took the job so he could work with horses." Dennis Cook adds "I`m sure the man on the left was the person who looked after the horses. He walked with a permanent limp because he had been kicked by one of them. We used to go and see the horses most days as I lived in Alma Rd; probably around 1948". (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1971 Summer Cream Sales Promotion - Alf Hermitage, Manager of Carshalton Depot receiving a record player as a prize! (Courtesy Doreen Williams)
1974 'Mac' McNair with Roy Skinner and 'Mick' Knight from Carshalton, with Andrew Paterson. (Express News Summer)
1976 Carshalton milkmen Steve Omley and Richard Wrait help with a Hackbridge house fire. [Steve's surname was 'Omley', corrected by Deborah Grace,who also wrote "I helped Steve Omley on weekends and school holidays for 5 or 6 years in the 1970's and have such great memories of that time. I often babysat for his young son, Ben and remember his wife Lynne. I usually cycled to the Shorts Road depot, but sometimes Steve came and picked me up in his Triumph Herald 6, which you could hear coming from miles away. I remember the fire that Steve and his trainee Richard Wrait helped rescue people from was in Reynolds Close, Hackbridge. The round was a long one which started near the depot and then finished in Hackbridge. I kept in touch with them until they moved to Australia in the early 1980's. I also remember Lee Wilding, and his Dad, Roger. I helped Roger out when others were away, and he had a big round, including the Roundshaw Estate. Bill Dowsing lived above the dairy shop, which was around the corner on Carshalton Road. He was the first milkman I worked for, after his previous helper Diane Parrott left. I must have been 10 or 11. 😂".] (Express News Christmas)
1980 Express winners in 'Play your cards right' TV programme - Eddie Batts of Carshalton Depot. (Express News April)
1981 Carshalton Depot staff Lee Wilding and John Saunders jump for charity. (Express News December)
1982 Carshalton Depot exhibit at Roundshaw Park, led by manager Len Thompson. (Express News Summer)
1988 Carshalton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1990 Brave employees at Carshalton and Rickmansworth (1990 April Tops Magazine)
1990's? Carshalton float by Sutton Station. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1990's Sutton, Surrey, franchise round from Carshalton Depot (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Carshalton Float. Suz Hudson comments "My late father Geordie was an Express milkman at first Banstead depot, then later moved to Carshalton Beeches. He met our step-mam Pauline who worked in the Office. (Courtesy Suz Hudson)
1968 Area Manager Charles Stanyon, George Timms from Hillingdon, Ronald McFahn from Chalfont St Peter and Leslie Colin of Wembley Central. (Express News Christmas)
1970 Chalfont St Peter milk girl Peggy Stallwood receives a poem in reply. (Express News Christmas)
1974 Chalfont staff held a Christmas dinner for local pensioners. (Express News Spring)
1982 Chalfont St Peter milkman Vernon Goodley retires after 51 years. (Express News February)
1956 Tuberculin Tested (TT) milk promotion at Cheam, Surrey
1962 Arthur Fluendy retires from Cheam Depot after 37 years. (Express News Spring)
1969 Arthur Thomas retires after 23 years at North Cheam. (Express News Summer)
Chelsea. Chris Austen remembers "I had a Lambretta; I used to visit customers - sometimes with the Chelsea (Ives Street) Manager, Evan Owen Griffiths, riding pillion!"
Ives Street, Chelsea. Rider Pram Reg: SLO 639 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1938 Receipted weekly milk bill, from Chelsea Depot. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1938 Reverse side of weekly milk bill, with advertising, from Chelsea Depot. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1966 Milkman Jack Hiskey retires from Ives Street, Chelsea branch after 42 years service (Courtesy Beryl Purslove)
1966 Ives Street, Chelsea. Long Service Dinner. Brothers George and Joe Rendall 'inspect their replacement cigarette lighters'. (Express News Summer 1966)
1969 Profile of Chelsea salesman George Aljovin. (Express News Autumn)
1969 Profile of Chelsea salesman George Aljovin. (Express News Autumn)
1969 Profile of Chelsea salesman George Aljovin. (Express News Autumn)
1972 Chelsea milkman Fred Port with his younger daughter Daphne is awarded for outstanding service.(Express News Summer)
1972 Charles Adams (Customer Relations) with Colin Pheasant, Alec Rogers and Eddie Evans from Chelsea Depot. Merit and Service Dinner.(Express News Summer)
1973 Tales from the milk round from Alan Breed of Chelsea Depot, as told to The Sun. (Express News Autumn)
1973 Colin Pheasant (Chelsea) with George Hurren (Bishopsgate) (Express News Autumn)
1980's Letter from Don Kirby to Chelsea Depot staff after its closure announcement. Dave Fane comments "We delivered to Chelsea on nights and they finished approx 1984. "(Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1982 The story of ex-Chelsea milkman and Shops Sales Manager Sir Christopher Leaver becoming Lord Mayor of London. (Express News February)
1982 The story of ex-Chelsea milkman and Shops Sales Manager Sir Christopher Leaver becoming Lord Mayor of London. (Express News February)
2000 Dave Chase recounts his experiences as milkman in Belgravia. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Chelsea (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Old Express hands get together, picture taken by John Carey at Mortlake Crematorium, at the funeral of Chelsea Milkman Steve Bloomfield. Eamonn Fay comments "Over 200 years (John Carey says 254 years if you include him too!) of being on the milk - Michael Hutchinson, Bobby Boothman, Morris (Mo) Oneil and Eric - most were at Express depots in London.". Mo Oneill adds "I worked at Chelsea, Southwark, Bloomsbury, Putney and finally Richmond. Sadly everywhere I went they closed... well Richmond closed after I left to be a black cab driver."
1966 Clapton milkman Charles Goldsby rescues a customer from fire
Clayton, Bradford
1975 Julie Ege (The Amorous Milkman star), Clayton Retail, Bradfprd
1930's Early three-wheeled delivery float from Cockfosters Depot (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1950's 'Cockfosters' 'Rider Pram' float Reg: RLW610 Fleet RP90 at the Wythall Transport museum (https://www.wythall.org.uk/). Paul Smith comments "Cockfosters depot was in a couple buildings at the back of the shop, I remember going in there a couple of times when my brothers round came was based." (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Cockfosters Rider Pram Reg RLW 610 (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Cockfosters Rider Pram Reg RLW 610 (Wythall Transport Museum
1968 Cockfosters milkman George Sturrock receives a tankard after 28 years service. (Express News Summer)
1971 Cockfosters milkman Sid Hart retires after 35 years. (Express News Christmas)
2000 Crawley sales manager Bunny Rush wins car competition. Paul Batchelor comments "I remember Bunny Rush at Three Bridges depot in Crawley and Nine Elms. A great manager, always had a smile on his face. Andy Drury was a great manager, and Area Manager when he was promoted. I had many dealings with them both about their transport. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1982 Dave Blanchford going above and beyond duty to deliver milk to his customers
1960 The Queen and Prince Philip visit Croydon, with J.A. Welch (Manager) and Bill Treherne (Salesman) handing out free cartons of milk and waving to the visitors.(Express News Christmas)
1966 Long Service Dinner 30 Year Award to Mr E.J. Clark of South Croydon, proposing a toast in honour of his gold watch. (Express News Summer 1966)
1972 South Croydon staff Ron Clack, John Beard and Bob Bowness at London Merit and Service Dinner.(Express News Summer)
1984 Winter Express News Front Cover - Paul Murray delivers a vintage hamper in Croydon
1984 South Croydon milkman Paul Murray delivering a Christmas Hamper. (Express News Winter)
1988 Croydon Depot joined up with Nestle for the Croydon Carnival. (January Express News)
South Croydon Reg: RAN 207L Allan Dawes comments "The only large Cabac we had at South Croydon, round 19 John McQuire. He always dressed the float up for Christmas." (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1971 Ace product salesman Hugh Heath with Cabac in Cumbernauld
Dawlish
1975 Dawlish Carnival Team from Express - John Adcock, Barry Crugden, John Whalley and Dave Tipping. (Express News Christmas)
1976 Exeter and Dawlish celebrate darts competition. The caption mis-spells Jim's name, it should be Jim Reid (correction thanks to his son Jimmy.
1981 Dawlish milkman David Fletcher rescues two girls from a runaway car. (Express News December)
1981 Dawlish retail depot win third prize in the local carnival. (Express News July)
1982 Lord Mayor's Procession, with Geoffrey Caines of Sherborne Depot (rescued an elderly couple from a burning house), Gerald Marnel of Birkenhead Depot (saved a child from a fire), David Fletcher from Dawlish Depot (saved two young girls in a runaway car), Peter Newton from Richmond Depot (uses a kidney dialysis machine but still does a wholesale round) and Ted Boorman, General Manager Transport and Services, Ruislip who was about to retire after 49 years, acting as host. (Express News February)
1984 West Country milkman see the advantages of using hand crates - John Champion (Yeovil, Ray Taylor (Exeter) and David Fletcher (Dawlish). (Express News Winter)
1985 Dawlish relief milkman Dave Tipping
1985 Riviera Roundsmen in the Dawlish area
1985 Riviera Roundsmen in the Dawlish area
1985 Riviera Roundsmen in the Dawlish area
1985 Riviera Roundsmen in the Dawlish area
1973 New Eden Vale office and cold store opened at Dewsbury. (Express News Autumn)
1978 Reg. Didcot Depot. Jason Eldridge comments "That’s my Dad, this was at Didcot depot, I think it was promoting either pintie bottles, or semi skimmed. I remember as a kid delivering leaflets for semi-skimmed milk.". Russell Finch adds "Dick Eldridge, Former Oxford Depot Manager-passed away a few weeks ago (posted October 2023). Lovely Fella."
1930's? "Uncle Sid on milk round in Ealing, W5" (Courtesy Beryl Purslove)
1947 Len Roper remembers his time at Ealing. (Express News Summer 1978)
1957 Eastcote Branch supplying Bourne School with third-pints, Manager F.J. Rowswell talking to Derek Gould. (Express News March)
1957 Bourne school making use of waste aluminium bottle caps in their Light Engineering workshop. (Express News March)
Edmonton
Edmonton Depot, milkman is Martin Ayres, location East Barnet. Photo by Paul Smith (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Edmonton (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1973 New Manchester Retail Depot in Elizabeth Street
1973 New Manchester Retail Depot in Elizabeth Street
1973 New Manchester Retail Depot in Elizabeth Street
1974 Elizabeth Street, Manchester milkman Vic Colman retires after 51 years. (Express News Summer)
1956 pen & ink drawing from article in Express News about Elmers End retail depot
1956 Elmers End retail depot
1974 Tom Houlahan and Carol Warfield from Elmers End, with Alan Savage. (Express News Summer)
1965 Mr John Gould of Enfield branch with his son Peter tried unsuccessfully to rescue an elderly widow from her burning first-floor flat in Enfield, Middlesex. (Express News Summer/Autumn)
Exeter
1976 Exeter and Dawlish celebrate darts competition. The caption mis-spells Jim's name, it should be Jim Reid (correction thanks to his son Jimmy.
1976 Exeter Retail manager sent in this picture from Pinhoe Summer Fete, of Mark Cox. (Express News Autumn)
1977 Exeter roundsman Daniel Berry features in Western Counties Building Society advertisement. Jimmy Reid comments in 2024 "Bloody nice bloke! Last time I saw him was in 1998 when I went to visit Exmouth depot where he was the manager and I was operations manager for Wessex Dairies, Thornbury. Sadly gone but NOT forgotten... RIP." (Express News Spring)
1977 Exeter milkman David Sanders raises an alert when he discovered and early morning house fire. (Express News Spring)
1979 Exeter milkman John Chave gets help from Brian Varley. (Express News Spring)
1979 Prince Charles at the Express stand at the Devon County Show.
1980's? Rider Pram at Exeter Retail Depot (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
Exeter (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1984 West Country milkman see the advantages of using hand crates - John Champion (Yeovil, Ray Taylor (Exeter) and David Fletcher (Dawlish). (Express News Winter)
1988 Janet Herd, wife of Exeter milkman Dave Herd wins Bingo contest of £38,000. (January Express News)
1989 Area Manager Ray Gillings awards Vince Herd of Exeter Retail Depot
1990 Customer Day activity at Exeter Depot (Tops Customer Day Edition)
Exmouth
1975 New Retail Depots at Exmouth, Barnstaple, Newbury, Whetstone and Maidstone
1975 Exmouth Depot under construction. (Express News Spring)
1979 Exmouth milkman Reg Franks retires after 42 years. (Express News Spring)
1980's Exmouth Depot (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1982 Exmouth milkmen tops at darts
1987 Exmouth milkmen darts success
Finchley
1958 Nellie Barrett retires from Finchley after 38 years. (Express News December)
1968 Woodside Park, Finchley
1978 Finchley milkman Arthur Eayres paints in his retirement. Lynne McDowall comments "I knew Arthur at College Farm, he was a gentleman-always kind and considerate, I went to tea at his house his wife was lovely too". (Express News Autumn)
Finchley Depot
1969 Profile of nine top milkmen in London - Den Dalton (Finchley), Don Weeks (Hemel Hempstead)
1976 Bill Melrose retires after 50 years at A1 Dairies, Whetstone, Barnet and Finchley. (Express News Christmas)
1973 Flixton Depot accident report following collision with a horse. (Express News Christmas)
1975 Flixton Carnival entry. (Express News Spring)
1975 Clayton manager Gordon Boden and six milkman look happy to be taking part in filming. Depot staff taking part were Glynn Hale, Billy Hodson, David Watts, Alf Varley and Bill Bracken. (Express News Spring)
1975 Norman Mitchell from Flixton Depot and his wife who also has a milk round at Norwest Co-op. (Express News Summer)
1976 Manchester entrants from Wythenshawe and Flixton raise funds for charity at the local Flixton and Urmston Carnival. (Express News Spring)
1981 Cheshire pair retire after 50+ years-Jim Secrette of Tarvin and Sid Wood of Flixton Depot. (Express News July)
1986 Reg refrigerated truck, D522 BLT. Fratton depot, Portsmouth. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1980's Frome depot getting ready for Frome carnival. Elaine identifies L-R: Jeff Wilkins, Jerry Pike, Derek Highfield and Bob Watts. (Courtesy Elaine Moyes)
1990 Frome roundsman Jon Sandy provides milk for a Rhino (1990 Winter Tops Magazine, Courtesy Beryl Purslove)
1977 Golders Green retail football team. (Express News Summer)
Grays
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
Grays (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1956 Greenford Office Clerk Miss Brenda Dorset. (Express News July)
1958 Roy Harding from Greenford branch announces engagement to Miss Ann Martin. (Express News July)
1965 Mr F. J. Cooper accepts award for Best Kept Dairy from Mr C. S. Kirby, MD London Retail, for Greenford Depot. (Express News Spring)
1969 Alf Seymour and his wife celebrate their Golden Wedding, Alf was former manager of Greenford Depot. (Express News Autumn)
1972 Letter from Charlie Crouch, former manager of Whitton branch who married Doris Baker, ex Chief Clerk at Greenford, whose mother was manageress at Sudbury Hill. (Express News Summer)
![1976 Carshalton milkmen Steve Omley and Richard Wrait help with a Hackbridge house fire. [Steve's surname was 'Omley', corrected by Deborah Grace,who also wrote "I helped Steve Omley on weekends and school holidays for 5 or 6 years in the 1970's and have such great memories of that time. I often babysat for his young son, Ben and remember his wife Lynne. I usually cycled to the Shorts Road depot, but sometimes Steve came and picked me up in his Triumph Herald 6, which you could hear coming from miles away. I remember the fire that Steve and his trainee Richard Wrait helped rescue people from was in Reynolds Close, Hackbridge. The round was a long one which started near the depot and then finished in Hackbridge. I kept in touch with them until they moved to Australia in the early 1980's. I also remember Lee Wilding, and his Dad, Roger. I helped Roger out when others were away, and he had a big round, including the Roundshaw Estate. Bill Dowsing lived above the dairy shop, which was around the corner on Carshalton Road. He was the first milkman I worked for, after his previous helper Diane Parrott left. I must have been 10 or 11. 😂".] (Express News Christmas)](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/2af86ba5-cc2e-48df-9280-3c42031e6b21/c066f27e-2044-4407-aaf9-7e535be23ac8_rw_1920.jpg?h=2a3458fd7306bb06f1a76e46b2131b25)
