IN DEPTH
How milk from Sussex was conveyed by train to Mottingham Station, then sent on by road to Eltham Processing Dairy, in the 1930’s onwards
Large scale map of location of Horam Creamery (Courtesy Matthew Pinto)
1930's Compliments slip (King George V died in January 1936), showing the Express Creameries at that time: Appleby, Billingshurst, Faringdon, Horam, Rowsley, Frome, Seaton Junction, Leyburn and Brailsford. (Courtesy Keith Sweetland)
1950's? Description of Horam Creamery workings. (Courtesy Robert Spalding)
1930's? Horam Creamery (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1950's Horam Country Dairy, Billingshurst, East Sussex (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1956 Horam driver Dick Lee's hobby is wireless. (Express News July)
1956 Horam driver Dick Lee's hobby is wireless. (Express News July)
1956 Horam Creamery in Sussex
1956 Mr C. 'Rusty' Bristow, Horam Transport Foreman appears in a 'What do you wan' article asking for ideas for future editions, in this fifth edition of Express News published in December.
1959 Horam Creamery, Sussex in the sunshine
1959 Horam by Air (Courtesy Robert Spalding)
1959 Horam Creamery, annotated aerial view.
1961 Long Service Dinner at the King's Head Hotel, Horsham for staff from Billingshurst and Horam creameries. Mr Archie Bartlett (Chief Office), Mr and Mrs H. Shaw, Mr George Laverick (Chief Office), Walter Nell (Chairman), Mr G. Aslin (Horam), Mr R. Gratton, Mr D.T. Gray and Mr David Mills (T.H. Lewis). Nick Thompson "I remember my dad Syd Thompson going to some dinners there, he is second from the left on the back row. I also recognise Les Banner (in the centre of the middle row) and Bert Emery (third from the left of the middle row)." John Southwell "I knew Roy Gratton when he was manager of Whittington". (LSA Annual Review)
1961 Long Service Dinner at the King's Head Hotel, three staff from Horam Creamery-Mr L. Banner, Mr K.W. Steel and Mr F.W.G. Blunt. (LSA Annual Review)
