1935 Locations of London Express Dairy Shops, compiled from Post Office Directory of that year.
1967 Banstead shop manageress Miss Margaret Mrazek receives award. (Express News Spring)
1957 Barnet Shop. Tony Cairns comments "My sister Lynda and myself waiting to go into the Odeon on a Saturday, at the top of Station Road. Note the Express Dairy and Chicken Restaurant in the parade of shops." Brian Wastell adds "My aunt Min Oakley was the manager of this shop." Paul Smith also added "My Auntie Barbara was manager of the shop in East Barnet Road, my mum also worked there and often went up to the shop pictured to help out." (Courtesy Tony Cairns)
1970 Beckenham shop manageress Mrs Peggy Price, and her area supervisor Roger Metcalf win holiday vouchers for this display. (Courtesy Doreen Williams)
1900's? Blackheath Dairy. (Courtesy Brian Wastell)
1900's? Blackheath Dairy. (Courtesy Brian Wastell)
1900's? Blackheath Dairy. (Courtesy Brian Wastell)
1900's? Blackheath Dairy. (Courtesy Brian Wastell)
1950's Burnt Oak Shop (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
2024 Canon's Park shop, still with some original features (Courtesy Mark Amies)
2024 Canon's Park shop, still with some original features (Courtesy Mark Amies)
2024 Canon's Park shop, still with some original features (Courtesy Mark Amies)
2024 Canon's Park shop, still with some original features (Courtesy Mark Amies)
2024 Canon's Park shop, still with some original features (Courtesy Mark Amies)
1933 Chalk Farm Underground station, Northern line, a Leslie Green corner site building; showing the Haverstock Hill side. Express Dairy shop and tea room occupies the corner, a station entrance is located to the far end, another entrance in the centre is shuttered up. View up Adelaide Road on opposite side of road by camera. (Courtesy London Transport Collection)
1933 Chalk Farm Underground station, unusually long Leslie Green building, Adelaide Road side, with Express Dairy shop at corner. (Courtesy London Transport Collection)
1953 Chalk Farm Shop (Courtesy Bill Taylor/ London Transport collection PL/15)
1960's Chalk Farm Station shop (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1960's? Express Dairy Chalk Farm shop with a range of food such as McVities digestive biscuits, processed peas and sliced peaches. (Courtesy Mary Evans Picture Library)
2023 Chalk Farm Station (Courtesy Google Street View)
1920's? Express Dairy Shop, Chiselhurst (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1972 Chislehurst Shop Operations
1972 Chislehurst Shop Operations
1972 Chislehurst Shop Operations
1972 Chislehurst Shop Operations
1972 Chislehurst Shop
1980 Chislehurst shop in step with the latest shopping trends
1980 Fresh Image for Shops - Chiselhurst
1980 Fresh Image for Shops - Chiselhurst
1920's? Croydon Shop (Courtesy Paul Smith)
2023 South Croydon Shop Location (Courtesy Lindsey Cannon)
1972 Smiles from Sidmouth, where Douglas and Irene Buse cope with a vast postal demand for Devonshire Clotted Cream
1977 Express shop in Bideford, with Gillian Upton behind the counter. (Express News Autumn)
1981 Selwyn Parkhouse retires as shop manager after 20 years, at Exeter, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton. (January Express News)
1957 Glenys Meager, shop assistant at Hayes, Kent and Sylvia Blackwell, Ealing High Street, try out the new uniform. The Training Centre was then at Connaught Street, W2. (Express News March)
1939 Bus/coach roadside passenger shelter at the Granville Hotel, Uxbridge Road, Ealing Common, with Hornby & Clarke Dairy shop. (Courtesy London Transport Collection)
1950's Express Shop at Eastcote, Field End Road
1960's Eastcote Shop (Courtesy Alan Vinton)
1960's Express Shop at Eastcote with Rider Pram (Courtesy Paul Luke). Stephen John Wills comments "As Foremen, one of our jobs on Rota was to collect Shops Days Takings and bring them back to our depot, at that time Hurlingham"
1940's Edgware Shop - Composite image. Roger Frost comments "My mother and father both worked for Express Dairy and lived in a flat above the Edgware shop when they first got married in 1938. When my dad was called up in 1940 my mum had to give the flat up and go and live back with her parents. I believe it was because she was classed as a single woman and as such could not have the tenancy." (Courtesy Michael Aldread and London Transport Archive from Mark Amies)
2024 Edgware shop scene (Courtesy Mark Amies)
1939 Bus shelter at junction of Cambridge Road and Silver Street, Edmonton. The parade of shops on the right includes a Tesco Stores and Express Dairy. (Courtesy London Transport Collection)
1928 College Farm shop, Finchley
1950's? Friern Barnet Shop (Courtesy Express Dairy Memories FB)
1934 Bus stand opposite "The Orange Tree" public house, Friern Barnet, with an Express Dairy shop opposite. (Courtesy London Transport Collection)
1900's? Golders Green Shop, The Promenade (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1936 A detail from a wonderful, commercial postcard view of Hammersmith Road, from around 1936. The shop assistant in the Express on the corner can be seen in her ‘whites and mop cap’, while two school girls peered into the window. They were probably pupils from the Sacred Heart High School across the road, which still survives. New laid eggs and cream are advertised while the delivery driver (spot his legs through the chassis!) sorted his load. This Ford ‘AA’ 30cwt box van, Express fleet no 25, GW 9102, was supplied on 8/12/31 by AE Gould Ltd, for £165 8 6d. TH Lewis built the body, which came complete with roller shutters front and rear and cake trays, for £155 19s. Chassis no AA4793085 was built at the new Dagenham plant during the first month of production there. The first vehicle off the line on 1/10/31 was an ‘AA’ truck, on chassis no AA4791110. The van was sold to G Ridler of London W11, in December, 1942, for £27 10s. Apart from the mounted policeman, passing traffic includes a large Sunbeam, an Austin 16/18hp and Morris Oxford. (Courtesy The Express Dairy Motorised Fleet, Allan Bedford, Heritage Machines)
1957-8 Hammersmith Shop, photo by James R. Macdonald (Courtesy Stan Hudgins, Old London Photos)
1959 Hammersmith Broadway (Courtesy Paul Smith)
Shop and delivery truck at Hammersmith Road, W London. (Courtesy Richard Gaylard)
1891, Hampstead Hygienic Dairies, Heath Street. Advertisement in Kelly's Camden Town and Hampstead directory. (Courtesy Camden Society)
1910's? Heath Street, Hampstead Express Shop. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1982 Express Dairy's first shop in Heath Street, Hampstead
1889/ 1965 Heath Street, Hampstead shop in 1889 and 1965 (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 Heath Street, Hampstead shop redevelopment. (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 Heath Street, Hampstead shop redevelopment. (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 Heath Street, Hampstead shop redevelopment. (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1965 Heath Street, Hampstead shop redevelopment. (Express News Summer/Autumn)
1905 Express Dairy Shop, Finchley Road, Hampstead (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1960's? Express Dairy Shop at Falloden Way, Hampstead, London NW11. Thanks to Brian Wastell and Paul Smith for helping identify.(Courtesy Paul Smith)
1957 Glenys Meager, shop assistant at Hayes, Kent and Sylvia Blackwell, Ealing High Street, try out the new uniform. The Training Centre was then at Connaught Street, W2. (Express News March)
1956 Hendon Central Express shop display
1950's? Herne Hill Shop and Depot (Courtesy Paul Smith)
1900's Islington Green shop (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1903 Express Shop at 'The Angel', Islington. (Courtesy Michael Aldread, photo from Gravelroots)
1960's Highbury Express Shop in 245 Upper Street, Depot behind in Swan Yard (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
1980's? View of 42 Amwell Street from the north-west, showing the corner entrance and double shopfront of the former Lloyd's Dairy with its gold painted lettering on glass.
1980's ? Islington. Michael Aldread comments "Lloyds of Amwell Street". Dave Luxford adds "Blimey, remember him, I can see him now standing outside his shop in his apron, he was on the phone nearly every day for something or other".
1950's Highgate Shop (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1968 Denise Oakley of Highgate Shop, photo received from Joe Birch. (Express News Christmas)
1968 Good Housekeeping Shield won by Doris Ielden at Kenton Lane shop
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1903 Clarke's expanded to open a shop at 7 Station Parade, Kew Gardens. Hornby opened a rival shop at number 16! Caroline Blomfield comments "16 Station Parade is now Pether's the butcher. The present owner of Pether's has been told that they used to keep their horse and cart for deliveries behind the shop. There was also an Express Dairy in North Road in 1960. By 1920, 7 Station Parade was Hornby & Clarke Ltd., a large local dairy, with shops all over south and west London." Michael Jackson remembers "deliveries of milk from Hornby and Clarke using the old hand pushed cart. I cannot imagine it was pushed each day from Richmond, so I imagine it was stocked up from a local point before the round was started. They kept their cows on Petersham Meadows from 1870 until 1935, when the farm was taken over by Express Dairy. By the mid-60s 7 Station Parade itself was an Express Dairy. After a spell as Hobson's Bakery, it is now Starbucks." (Courtesy Twickenham Park Residents Association)
1950's Hornby and Clarke's shop at Kew. (Courtesy Twickenham Park Residents Association)
1981 Kew Gardens shop manager John Hoare serviing a customer. (Express News December)
1981 Kew Gardens shop, from a day in the life of South London
1960's Kingsbury Shop (Courtesy Express Dairy Memories)
