IN DETAIL
Richard Gaylard provided some background information and pictures about Hall & Sons of Pinner. "During the spring of 1991 I started work as a trainee milkman at Express Northwood Depot, providing cover for staff holidays. At this time Express Milk acquired Hall’s retail rounds that covered the North Harrow and Pinner area. The farm and milk production remained under the ownership of the Hall family. One of the rounds I covered was an ex-Halls round and I can remember the incumbent milkman going to the farm for tea etc. once we had finished and were returning to Northwood."
The dairy was based at Pinner Park Farm on the A404, King George V Avenue, and was established as a family mixed farm and dairy business in the 1920's or earlier.
Hall and Sons, Pinner (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1930's article about Pinner Park Farm (Courtesy Alan Vinton)
1930's Pinner Park Farm (Courtesy Alan Vinton, Memories of Pinner FB Group)
Hall and Sons, Pinner (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
Hall and Sons, Pinner farmhouse. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1964 registered Hall and Sons, Pinner float HMV 180B. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's? Hall and Sons, Pinner float being loaded at the cold store. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's? Hall and Sons, Pinner Crompton & Parkinsons float 4883 MT. (Courtesy M20 Truck Photos, Richard Gaylard)
Hall and Sons, Pinner - churn bank. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1960's? Hall's of Pinner pint bottle (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
Hall and Sons, Pinner (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1984 Halls of Pinner and Braziers round swap correspondence. Paul Luke comments "Communication between local dairies organising rounds swaps in the early days" (Courtesy Paul Luke, Braziers Dairies FB)
1990's? Pinner Park Farm (Courtesy Stessy Haberfield)
1990's? Pinner Park Farm. Clive Hamling comments "My first paid job was there, 40 hours a week for £40 when I was 14, driving a tractor up and down the fields rolling the grass. Tedious cannot describe it, but I was driving! Plus the tractor had a radio, cool, and I could have as much milk as I could drink, which got quite warm quite quickly 🤮. Wouldn't happen now" (Courtesy Stessy Haberfield)
1990's? Pinner Park Farm. Clive Hamling comments "The round milking parlour was the original prototype for Fulwoods carousel type milking parlours, as such I think it was listed. It was reasonably reliable too, considering how many cows walked on and off each day, a herd of approximately 350, but when it broke, oh dear! You had get down into the depths of the gearing and hand crank/ winch the thing. Not fun, once I had rather large rat decide to use me as a ladder to escape, seems I had invaded its space." (Courtesy Stessy Haberfield)
Hall and Sons, Pinner (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
