1920's? The Express Dairy cafe and depot off Eltham High Street. (Courtesy Robin Fraser Bell)
1905 'The Eltham Dairy' before the new shop/cafe/processing dairy was built.. (Courtesy www.dover-kent.com/2015-project/Greyhound-Eltham.html)
1949 Eltham Express cafe and shop with processing dairy behind. (Courtesy www.dover-kent.com/2015-project/Greyhound-Eltham.html)
1950's Express delivery in Purney's Road, Kidbrooke. (Photo Stephen Sopp, courtesy John Kennett and SEnine magazine)
1956 Knighthood of the Road presented to Yorkey Robshaw, then at Eltham Depot, later at South Morden. Yorky took a seriously injured child to an ambulance station. (Express News July)
1954 Eltham Processing Centre, Pasteurising Plant. Anne Pordage comments (on Francis Frith website) "My dad worked at the Express Dairy bottling depot opposite side of the road to the church. I often went to watch and be treated to a drink in their canteen, as a child I found it fascinating watching the bottles being cleaned and refilled with milk. Unfortunately, it was closed and moved to Morden in Surrey so Dad had to travel there everyday on his motorbike!" (Express Salesman's Manual Fourth Edition)
1964 Eltham Express shop with processing dairy behind. (Courtesy www.dover-kent.com/2015-project/Greyhound-Eltham.html)
2013 Eltham article by John Kennett-1 (Courtesy SENine magazine)
2013 Eltham article by John Kennett-2 (Courtesy SENine magazine)
2013 Eltham article by John Kennett-Mottingham Delivery in 1981 (Courtesy SENine magazine)
2011 Mottingham Station
2024 Express Dairy in Eltham, from SEnine Magazine, March 2024. Author: John Kennett.
