IN DEPTH
Read this fictional account 'As we were 1862 - 1934' - "taking a closer look at the past, in an attempt to capture the milkman's progress over the ages" - as imagined in Express News in 1960
VIDEOS
Watch this video compilation of Express News Front Covers (11:23) from the 1950's to the 1990's, including notes on editions that are missing from our collection. The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) also has an extensive collection of 'Express News' and other archive material.
1957 Express News Compliments Slip
1956 Front Cover image of First Edition of 'Express News' January (not in my collection)
1956 Joe Dakin at a Peak District churn stand in the snow. (Express News Front Cover, April)
1956 Mr H Shepherd steers a 3000 gallon AEC past Westminster Abbey
1956 Express News - September Front Cover-Dewsbury-A modern fork-lift truck helping to speed the turn round of vehicles at Dewsbury
1956 Drayton Park Bakery-Miss June Williams parcels up a cake for Christmas. (Express News Front Cover, December)
Over 5 years, this young chick will lay more than 700 eggs
1957 New Premier Supermarket HQ at South Ruislip, with Mrs Jean Deitch operating a National 32 accounting machine. (Express News Front Cover, Autumn)
1957 Autumn Front Cover-"Housecraft-Television girl Eve Vitt tries out a waffle-iron in Great Tower Street restaurant."
1957 Mrs Patricia Moore of the Window Display Dept (Express News December, Front Cover)
Express News March 1958 Front Cover
Cover Artist - David Chalmers
Cover Artist - David Chalmers
Cover Artist - David Chalmers
1959 Cover Artist - David Chalmers illustrating 'Milk Supplies'
1959 July Front Cover at South Morden (missing front cover because of the printer's strike)
1959 over Artist - Charles Keeping illustrating 'Retail Distribution'
Cover Artist - David Chalmers illustrating 'Window Display'
1908 milk round before and after school at Harrison's Waverley Creamery, taken over by Allied Dairies in 1929
1960 Pancake Landing, damaging 320,000 eggs
Panorama of South Ruislip site
1960 Horse-drawn milk carts from Highbury & Greenford Green
Express News Spring 1961 Front Cover - Billy Bunter played by actor Keith Banks at the Victoria Palace
1961 Earls Court Road shop vending machine (Express News Front Cover, Summer)
1961 Wales & Edwards float returns from the shipyards to the Clydebank Depot. (Express News Autumn, Front Cover)
1962 Crediton-Henry Board supervises the extraction of two tons of butter. (Express News Spring Front Cover)
1962 Cricklewood Filling-room Hand Mr Denis O'Connor wheels a stillage of raspberry-flavoured yogurt into one of the eight incubating ovens. The new plant in Number 2 dairy is designed to keep pace with our expanding sales, which we hope will rise to a million cartons a week in the London area. (Express News Autumn, Front Cover)
1962 Laboratory Supervisor Mr Norman Kipling-Express News - Christmas 1962 Front Cover
Express News - Autumn 1963 Front Cover
1963 Billy Smart's circus elephants enjoying Express milk. (Express News Front Cover)
1964 Royal Clarence Hotel, Exeter. (Express News Spring, Front Cover)
1964 August 'Express Extra' newsletter in anniversary year, as Express News was a special edition. (Courtesy Paul Luke)
1964 Guernsey cows grazing at Petersham Farm. (Express News Autumn, Front Cover)
1964 Early Advertisements. (Express News Christmas, Front Cover)
E eggs for Easter
1965 "Framed against the solid girth of the Queen's Hotel, Eastbourne, our model guests enjoy a shaft of English sunshine." Express News Summer/Autumn Front Cover
1965 Santa at the Bull Hotel, Gerrards Cross
1966 Spring Express News Front Cover (Courtesy Beryl Purslove)
1966 Summer Front Cover (Express News Summer 1966)
1966 Longlife Milk at London Airport
Kitten likes Double Cream!
Sarah Lee-Barber, Pinta Girl Mk 2 currently decorating 5000 poster sites
Express News Autumn 1967 Front Cover "A long way from South Morden to Hong Kong"
Santa in Piccadilly Circus
1968 South Ruislip Printing Dept - Tony Williams and Chris Cluskey silk-screen printing with manager Jack White
1968 Wakefield prepares for VIP visit
Express News Autumn 1968 Front Cover "The Ireland of the past still exists..."
The Three Kings - 2 feet high figures modelled from paper by designer David Toy
1969 Viking Hotel, York
1969 Kevin Glynn, Driver of the Year, drives round Brands Hatch in a Formula Ford Merlyn
1969 Marsham Court Hotel in Bournemouth, the first swimming pool hotel
Paper turkeys modelled by David Toy
1908 Boys doing a milk round before and after school at Harrison's Waverley Creamery, taken over by Allied Dairies in 1929. (Express News Spring 1960 Front Cover)
