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.
This silent film (6:49) about Hornby & Clarke, Richmond in the 1950's features Guernsey cows on Petersham Meadows, hand and machine milking, churn collection, laboratory testing, batch pasteurising, bottle filling, crating into wire crates, delivery with electric hand-carts and children drinking school milk.
Promotional film produced by Turners Film Unit in 1957 advertising Premier Supermarkets, the first American style self-service retailing in Britain, with Express Dairy opening the first store in Streatham High Street, London, in 1951. The film features opening scenes of young women enjoying leisure time with family and friends contrasting with the effort involved in shopping before the advent of the supermarket. It also records the food production, selection and supply, processing and packaging industries that deliver to Premier Supermarket warehouse at Ruislip, including Thorpe Lea Nurseries.
‘Milkmen's Discussion Group’ appears to be filmed in a hotel, with an unknown host asking questions and leading the discussion. Probably dates from the late 1970s and believed to be used at Express Dairy's Robarts House training centre, in Marylebone, London. Topics discussed include cartons, delays and frustrations on typical milk rounds, building customer relationships, sales and pricing issues, the importance of the personal touch with consistent service and times.
Memories of Express Bloomsbury Depot From the 1980's and 1990's, capturing some of the characters who worked at the depot.
Express Dairy milkman Alan Smith retires from Putney Depot after 45 years in 1987. Customers explain what Alan meant to them, and Alan mentions some of his experiences helping them on his Barnes milk round.
John started as a milk boy when still at school and became an Express milkman in 1961 until he retired from Wimbledon Depot (then Dairy Crest) in August 2011. John Carey's Last Milk Round in Wimbledon was featured on BBC News.
Paul Luke's Ecofresh milk round and bottle collection 2024
Paul Luke started a new 'Ecofresh' milk round in Essex in 2024 and this BBC News report explains, together with his milk bottle collection.
Many children and teenagers started helping milkmen on their rounds, and this was common in the 1950’s and onwards. Here we tell the story of some of their memories…Milk Boys & Girls - Some Memories records some of these.