Ecton Creamery location kindly provided by Alan Salt
1918 Ecton Station - diagram of narrow gauge siding, agreed with F.W. Gilbert Ltd. (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1920s? A milk wagon on a short transporter wagon and one of the railway's two bogie open wagons loaded with milk churns. Dalkeith Trade Card No.75 (Courtesy Transports of Delight)
1920s Ecton Creamery. John comments "Two nice views of the Ecton creamery probably in the late 1920s. I think the biggest lorry is a WW1 Leyland 'RAF Type', ex-military truck.". (Courtesy John Irish)
1920s Ecton Creamery. John comments "Two nice views of the Ecton creamery probably in the late 1920s". (Courtesy John Irish)
1920s Ecton Creamery. John comments "Ecton creamery probably in the late 1920s. Matthew Pinto comments "The mines closed around the end of the 19th century IIRC. Ecton Creamery took over the buildings and opened in 1918 by F. W. Gilbert Ltd and was later absorbed into United Dairies. The creamery closed in 1932 and output was transferred to the newly opened Express Dairy at Rowsley which was connected to the main line rail network. The Leek and Manifold Light Railway closed in 1934. (Photo courtesy John Irish, colourised by Peter Neville, posted by Alan Salt)
1930 Video still from 'A Quaint Little Railway' - https://
1930s Ecton Cheese Factory. Transporter wagons in use with main line milk tanks.
1930s Ecton station with the engine about to shunt the creamery siding. John Irish comments "The creamery manager, Mr Dainton is next to the transporter wagon." (Courtesy John Irish, Butterton- A Doubly Thankful Village FB Group)
1930s? Ecton Cheese Factory. Alan Salt comments "Churns being delivered, or picked up-parts of the concrete dock remaining now are about the only sign there was ever a dairy there." John Irish adds "The building to the rear with the circular opening in the gable is the former 'clock house' smelter from the Ecton copper mine workings. This formed the basis of the dairy when first opened by F W Gilbert." (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1930s? Mainline gauge Rail milk tanker at Ecton, on a narrow gauge transporter wagon. Alan Salt comments "Farmers and contractors would bring milk to Ecton-some may have been used to make cheese but when excess milk was available, or when liquid milk was worth more to the Company, these tankers would take the milk to Waterhouses, then on to Manchester or London. Wilts United Dairies who ran Ecton were doing similar at their Uttoxeter site so these rail tanks could well end up at Uttoxeter for onward travel." (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1930c Ecton Dairy. View from river level, one of the churn wagons in the background. John Irish comments "... the wagon is one of only two open wagons that the railway possessed and was usually employed carrying churns." (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1934 Ecton station, next door to the Cheese factory. John Irish comments "I think that this was taken two months after closure, by the famous railway photographer H. C. Casserly." (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1940s ? Ecton Creamery. Alan Salt comments "Most of the old mine buildings and the Cheese factory have gone in this photo, I can remember going in the remains of the little shed- I think it finally went altogether in the late 80's, just a bit of concrete base left last time I looked," (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1940s ? Ecton Creamery. Alan Salt comments "Most of the old mine buildings and the Cheese factory have gone in this photo, I can remember going in the remains of the little shed-think it finally went altogether in the late 80's, just a bit of concrete base left last time I looked," (Courtesy Alan Salt)
1950s Hemyock Station, Devon, in the 1950s, open for dairy traffic until 1975. (Courtesy Christopher Leigh)
1950s? Hemyock, Devon-"A single carriage waits at the platform. Amyas Crump comments "Another from Edgar’s Lowmans set."Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1950s? Hemyock, Devon-"View from the platform, showing how close the track was to the river." Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1950s? Hemyock, Devon-"Looking back to the station, from Station Road." Amya's Crump comments "Edgar Lowman photo, from the top of the creamery oil storage tanks." Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1960s? Hemyock, Devon-"A rake of milk tanks on the northernmost siding that crosses the road and enters the dairy." Amyas Crump and Mike Pike recognise Len Mutter. Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1960s? Hemyock, Devon-"A steam locomotive moves a rake of milk tanks, while several other milk tanks sit behind the station". Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel." (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1960s? Hemyock, Devon-"Looking over the River Culm to a rake of milk tanks". Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1970s? Hemyock, Devon-"View from Hemyock towards the dairy and Combe Hill, with the station site in the bottom left. You can see the crossing gates where the southernmost siding traversed the road." Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1970s? Hemyock, Devon-A diesel locomotive and a rake of milk tanks stand on a siding, after the station had closed. The station building and platform were in the centre of the photo, with the cattle dock siding to the left, overgrown by this stage. Amyas Crump comments "I suggest it’s the last train, leaving." "Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1970s? Hemyock, Devon-"A diesel locomotive with a rake of milk tanks, after the station had closed." Amyas Crump comments "That’s after it had been demolished, quite possibly the last train." Express only did egg packing at Hemyock, the dairy later became St Ivel. (Courtesy Discovering Devon, Somerset and beyond FB)
1971 Hemyock station, Hymek D7003 on the branch from Tiverton Junction, with milk tanks bound for London, possibly South Morden. (Courtesy ©KDH archive)
1907 Hill View Dairies in Okeford Fitzpaine, just north of Milborne St Andrew. (Courtesy Andrew Wallis, FB)
1907 postcard of Hill View Dairies. Edward ‘Neddy’ Phillips founded Hill View Dairies in Upper Street, Child Okeford, to take advantage of improved communications brought about by the arrival of the railway. The milk was either sent by train from Shillingstone station to Bournemouth and other towns, or made into butter and cheese – with the leftover whey going to back to farms as food for pigs. (Courtesy Dorset Life October 2026)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1964 Staff from Magheralin Creamery visit Bovril's Lifton site. (Stills courtesy Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive)
1920s? Rosmond Cheese Factory, Lindfield, West Sussex (Courtesy Elizabeth Wickstead)
