1937 Full page milk feature in Leeds Mercury, including advertisement for Manorcroft Dairy. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1939 Founder of Manorcroft Dairy, William Clay dies aged 70. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1939 Founder of Manorcroft Dairy, William Clay left £5278 in his will when he died aged 70. Equivalent to £294,000 in 2025. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1939 Fire broke out at Dewsbury Dairy leaving five families homeless. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1950's Manorcroft Dairy, Dewsbury. Margaret Brooke comments on another FB post "Manorcroft Dairy was at the top of Old Bank Road, on the site where York House is" (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1952 The Bradford Observer reports Express Dairy progress post-war, with four processing plants in London re-equipped, and three new dairies opened in the North- Sheffield (1947), Chesterfield (1951) and Bradford (1952). Dewsbury and Tarvin Dairies have also been re-equipped. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1956 Express News - September Front Cover-Dewsbury-A modern fork-lift truck helping to speed the turn round of vehicles at Dewsbury
1956 Dewsbury-a modern fork-lift truck helping to speed the turn round of vehicles at Dewsbury (Express News - September 1956 Front Cover)
1957 Manorcroft Dairy, Dewsbury-Relief driver Mr Norman Booth (L) talking to tanker driver Mr Laurie Wingfield (R). (Express News December)
1957 Dewsbury-Mr Jimmy Chilvers unloading at a BMB. (Express News December)
1967 Manorcroft Dairy employee Frank Holdsworth and his wife celebrate their Golden Wedding. (Express News Spring)
1968 Wakefield Dairy. Bradford and Dewsbury bottling plants were closed and production moved to Wakefield. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Roy Scholes and Ted Ottewell add a touch of blue and silver to the compressor plant. Both joined our Manorcroft Dairy in 1948. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Driver Tom Gibson makes four 1,000-gallon deliveries a day, three of them to retail branches in Bradford. He also keeps his 12-ton Commer absolutely spotless. A Dewsbury veteran. (Express News Summer
1973 New Eden Vale office and cold store opened at Dewsbury. (Express News Autumn)
1973 Dewsbury foreman Ben Robshaw pictured with a family he rescued from their burning home. (Express News Spring)
1987 Karron Milner, Purchase Ledger Clerk at Manorcroft Dairy, Dewsbury took part in Operation Raleigh for charity, supported by Express Dairy. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1988 Pensioner news-Ernest Pittock from Manorcroft revisits the site of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. (January Express News)
1998 Gerald Egan remembers his early days on the railways. "A milk tank arrived every morning for the Manorcroft Dairy." Gerald Egan, who died in 2016, was the former manager at Selby and Leeds railway stations, also responsible for other stations in West Yorkshire. He started his career on the railways as a messenger boy moving through the ranks. He was President of the Yorkshire Rail Campaigner in 2013. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1992 Ex-Dewsbury and Wakefield foreman Harold Hickling celebrates his golden wedding with his wife Alice. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
1996 Manorcroft dairy site in Old Bank Road, Dewsbury sold for development. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
