Browse the videos that interest you below and click on the video thumbnail to open the link. Most open in YouTube, some on other channels, for copyright reasons.
Videos are listed by date of the material that they cover, or publication date. Oldest first. General-interest videos (not Express) are shown like this.
Explore and perhaps follow our own Express Dairy Tales YouTube channel where there are around 50 unique videos about Express Dairy over the years.
Video compilation of 'Express News' house magazine front covers from 1950s onwards. Includes notes on editions that are missing from our Express Dairy Tales collection.
Watch this promotional film of cookery demonstrations (6:08) using Express Dairy Cottage Cheese, filmed in the Demonstration Kitchen at South Morden, probably in 1959. Produced by Turners Film Unit, Newcastle and made available by the Yorkshire Film Archive.
Short TV news item about the latest MMB milk price increase in 1965, suggests that 1p a gallon is inadequate to support small dairy farmers in Devon. Interesting farmyard pictures from the churn days. (2 minutes). Also mentioned is the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF), which was founded in 1876, and was based at Express Dairy’s offices in Rossmore Road.
Many well-known Express management staff appear in this Bristol Conference video with Jeremy Beadle from 1990, including David Rowling, Terry Mason, Jim Tilller, Linda Clow, Austin Lockwood, Laurie Elliot, Beryl Purslove, Ann Anderson, Mick Newbury, Chris Burton, Ray Gillings, Jackie Blanchflower, and Derek Luxford.
Beryl Purslove was Internal Audit Manager based at South Ruislip, and retired in June 1992, after 47 years. This interesting video was made by Steve Lorton, Accountant and he narrates and includes some memories at the end. Many well-known Express Dairy names and faces appear, including Alf Bellwood, Molly Bendon, Mike Smith, Chris Austen, Marian Morgan, George Chant, Pat Alexander, Sheila Neale, Marian Williams, Elaine Hunt, Dawn Cordrey, Margaret Cackett, Linda Clow, David Rowling, Charlie Samson and Dennis Watson. Beryl died in 2025.
Watch this humorous TV outtake from Austria, demonstrating how (not) to open a milk carton. (Commentary in German, but not needed to understand the joke!)
An online presentation that Peter Roper made to the Rural Museums Network, in November 2023, explaining how the Express Dairy Tales website and Facebook Group was set up and subsequently managed. Topics discussed include an outline of Express Dairy's activities, hardware and software used to prepare material, the Facebook Group and how it's managed, and issues of image quality, attribution and copyright. Peter also lists the costs involved in setting up and running the website on a continuing basis, and thoughts about preserving the archive for the future.
Steve Wheeler's Milk Bottle Museum was featured on BBC Bargain Hunt in December 2023. Steve explains how his collection started and expanded, and shows the first glass milk bottle from Express Dairy in the 1880's. You can also watch the full BBC programme on this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tcbh