1958 Wakefield Dairy opening
1958 Wakefield Dairy opening
1958 Wakefield Dairy opening
1958 Wakefield Dairy opening
1958 Wakefield Dairy opening
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens, pen and ink drawing from Express News December
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens-profile of Tom Price, Manager. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. "An observation window, featuring a colourful display of flowers, is one of the highlights of the contemporary entrance hall." (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. "Milk storage tanks are recessed into the cream tiled walls of the processing room. Clean bottles pass along a covered conveyor to be filled and capped". (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. Scrutiniser Mr Frank Lord and Dairyhand Mr Tom Bradley hold a watching brief in adjustable chairs. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. Mr Barry Speed in the laboratory. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. "Assistant Manager at the age of twenty-four, Mr Charles Straker typifies Northern's willingness to give the younger man a chance. He has worked at most of our depots, including Cricklewood and Morden". (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. Receptionist Miss Jennifer Smith. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. "Mrs Lily Sandford prepares a strawberry milk shake in the dream-like surroundings of the kitchen. Unlike most housewives she has at her command a number of gadgets that range from a self-contained fish frying unit to the electric mixer in the background". (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. "Occupying a place of honour opposite the main gate is a reproduction of our trade mark". (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. Mr C. P. Lamont, Director of Express Dairy Northern, who supervised the design and layout of the centre talks to Development Engineer Mr Bill Shires. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy staff canteen. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy opens. Fork lift Driver Mr Jeffrey Booth swings in to collect a stillage of milk. Apart from the mechanical crate-stacker, the cold store has rubber doors to maintain the low temperature and permit easy access. (Express News December)
1958 Wakefield Dairy appointment letter submittted by Ben Doughty from FB (His grandmother "Mrs Mavis Cartledge")
1959 Wakefield Dairy official opening
1959 Wakefield Dairy official opening
1959 Wakefield Dairy official opening
1964 Wakefield dairy, from Express Story 1864 - 1964
1968 Wakefield prepares for VIP visit
1968 Preparation for VIP visit to Wakefield Dairy
1968 Preparation for VIP visit to Wakefield Dairy
1968 Preparation for VIP visit to Wakefield Dairy
1968 Preparation for VIP visit to Wakefield Dairy
1968 Preparation for VIP visit to Wakefield Dairy
1968 Wakefield. Bradford and Dewsbury bottling plants were closed and production moved to Wakefield. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield VIP visit by Walter Nell. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield Manager Maurice Waring consults with Processing Manager Geoff Moore, Senior Dairy Foreman Arthur Taylor and Foreman Dairy Engineer David Whittaker. Mick Whittaker comments "David Whittaker, my dad. His funeral at St Andrews was packed with Express Dairy staff, so not much milk was bottled that day."
1968 Wakefield. Area Manager Harold Underwood, Depot Manager Maurice Waring and Area Director Barry Thompson greet Walter Nell. Megan Waugh comments "My Dad, Harold Underwood, on the left who later became a Director. A wonderful man who passed away at the ripe old age of 97💞" (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Wakefield Manager Maurice Waring with Processing Manager Geoff Moore, Senior Dairy Foreman Arthur Taylor and Foreman Dairy Engineer David Whittaker. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Yardman Jack Child polishes the locker room floor. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. General Office staff, clockwise from the front, Mrs Mavis Cartledge, Mrs Jean Sanderson (whose husband Trevor and father Jim Firth are pillars of the processing staff), Office Manager Alan Ward, Ann Robinson, Mrs Muriel Godsoe, Joan Middleton, who acts as secretary to the management, and Carol Sandy. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Roy Scholes and Ted Ottewell add a touch of blue and silver to the compressor plant. Both joined our Manorcroft Dairy in 1948. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield processing floor, with the newly installed bottling line at the back. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Chargehand Frank Campbell with the UDEC filler. Frank spent 30 years as a miner at New Monkton Colliery before joining Express. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Mrs Emma Piorkowska in the canteen. Before joining us in 1959, Emma's friendly smile decorated the far side of the bar at The Great Bull Hotel in Wakefield's Market Street. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Weight checker Mike May joined Express in 1964 and combines business with pleasure by walking out with a member of the lab staff. His tipping machine weighs and records the final intake from each farm and a copy of the daily gallonage figure reaches the farmer at the end of each month. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. New canteen, managed by Mrs Amy Binns. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Tea in the Visitors' Room for a group of nurses from Snapethorpe Hospital. Complete with built-in cine projector, the room is in use most days and Lab Supervisor Nancy Oldroyd (handing round the cups) answers a barrage of questions on health and hygiene. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Checkers' Office, four men control the outward flow of milk-Joe Bradley, Social Club Chairman John Hodgson and committee members Ken Dawson and Trevor Ashton. (Express News Summer)
1968 Wakefield. Driver Tom Gibson makes four 1,000-gallon deliveries a day, three of them to retail branches in Bradford. He also keeps his 12-ton Commer absolutely spotless. A Dewsbury veteran. (Express News Summer
1968 Wakefield- Elaine Rodgers at Wakefield Dairy checking butterfat on incoming farm milk
1978 Wakefield Transport Manager Ted Tate with Brian Riley and Jack Stanley
1978 Wakefield join in money-saving QED programme. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield join in money-saving QED programme. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield join in money-saving QED programme. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield join in money-saving QED programme. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield. L-R Jack Johnson, Roger Lunn, Malcolm Carter (Senior Regional Work Study Officer) and Ray Marshall (Area Accountant) (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield. L-R Tony Porter (Stores), Lewis Wilcock (Transport Foreman) Fork-Lift Driver Bill Porritt. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield. L-R Assistant Processing Managers Arthur Taylor and Tom Bradley. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield. Graham Garner. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield. Peter Beaumont. (Express News Spring)
1978 Wakefield. Angela Ward. (Express News Spring)
1980 Wakefield Dairy, from 'A day in the life of Yorkshire' article in Express News, October.
1980 Wakefield. Conversion to 'pintie' bottles and the installation of a new 500-a-minute bottling line to add to its existing 400 line has trebled output compared with 1957, when the dairy opened. 164 staff kept the milk flowing at 45,000 gallons a day. (Express News October)
1980 Wakefield. Roger Lunn, Factory Manager with Harold Underwood, Yorkshire Area Director. Roger has been 'in milk' from the age of five, through family connections. Harold's service dates back to 1936 when he joined Chatsworth Dairy in Sheffield. His service was interrupted by serving his country and he also left for a short period to work with his brother, "until I cut myself one day and found milk instead of blood, and returned to the dairy industry." He is involved locally in the work of the National Dairymen's Association and is chairman of its bi-annual conference in the North. (Express News October)
1980 Wakefield Artic leaving the yard with bottled milk for local depots in Yorkshire. (Express News October)
1990's Express Wakefield bottle cap (Courtesy Mark Hudson)
2001 Wakefield Dairy closes. (Courtesy Michael Aldread)
2001 Express Dairies financial results reported in the Shropshire Star, 16 November. (Courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
Express Wakefield, Back Lane, Wakefield. Josie Robshaw comments "My wife was secretary to the main engineer whilst the dairy was being built, about 1957, and then secretary to the manager until about 1964." (Courtesy Mark Redfearn)
2014 Express Wakefield, Back Lane, Wakefield. (Courtesy Kevin Grundy)
