1974 History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
History of Clifford's Dairies. Thornbury was purchased by Express in June 1987(Courtesy David Montgomery, posted on Bygone Bracknell FB Group March 2016)
1982 Cliffords Dairies delivery vehicle, Ford (Courtesy Grantley Kingscott)
1980's? Clifford's Dairies Head Office, Western Road, Bracknell
1980's Thornbury. Jimmy Reid comments "I worked at Thornbury for 5 years as a Distribution Ops Manager from 1994 (then Dale Farm). It closed in 2002 as a processing centre and I was made redundant in 1999. It became Wessex Dairies the following year, after a management buy out." (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1980's Thornbury dairy yard and EVM workshop (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1980's Kettner recrater at Thornbury Dairy
1981 This picture of kids and float was taken at an open day at Clifford’s HQ in Downshire Way, Bracknell. The float itself is tiny and there has to be a risk that the extra yoghurt, potatoes and spring water in the back caused it to do a wheelie on its rounds. The firm of Clifford’s began life in Middlesex in 1874, when patriarch William began selling milk from his two cattle door-to-door in Hounslow. This was in the days when milk was carried in pails on a yoke across the seller’s shoulders. By 1907 William had a herd of seventy cows, a farm and a number of horse-drawn milk carts. The business expanded still further between the wars and began to use dairy herds in Berkshire. Eventually the company’s offices were moved to Bracknell in 1947, and there they stayed until Unigate bought the firm in 1993 and moved operations elsewhere.
1982 Thornbury High Street, Clifford's Dairy truck. Grantley Kingscott, whose picture this is, tells that the milk tankers were towed to the dairy by tractors, and they were selling milk in the big car park that winter. Steve Tyersadds "That's me in the passenger seat and Graham Patterson driving" (Courtesy Grantley Kingscott, Thornbury retro history FB Group)
1989 - Thornbury after purchase by Express Dairy in swap in June 1987, published in Express News March 1989 Steve Tyers comments "Dick Seamen in white coat and Grantley Kingscott next to him". Grantley Kingscott comments "That's me stood with my old manager Dick Seamen-I worked there for 22 years in total"
1990 Thornbury win BS5750 award (1990 Winter Tops Magazine, Courtesy Beryl Purslove)
1991 Dave Bullingham is responsible for UHT sales, Steve Hedge is appointed Factory Manager at Crediton and Ian Turner becomes factory manager at Thornbury (1991 Summer Tops Magazine)
2000 Wessex Dairies, Thornbury, split and sold (Courtesy Farmers Weekly)
