Changes (most recent at the top)
20-11-2024 Exeter Dairy reunions from 2014-2017 now added to Exeter Staff section. New images added to Transport-Rail, Depots T-Z, H, Thornbury, Parades, Minsterley >1970, Lockerbie, Kilmaurs, Sanquhar and Job's. New audio 'The Price of a Pint of Milk' added to renamed 'Videos and Audio - General Interest' section. A new video link has been created "Churn Collection in the Dorset Snow 1962/3"
15-11-2024 New images added to Job's, Transport-Horsedrawn and Depots N-P. New section added for Minsterley Equipment Disposal 2012 - this is a pictorial list of equipment put on sale by Greencore when the creamery was sold to Müller.
12-11-2024 New images added to South Morden to 1979, Ski, Parades, Cricklewood, Bromley Processing, Shops and Shops A-Z.
11-11-2024 New images added to Shops, Shops A-Z, Depots B, I-M, Morden to 1979, Directors 74 on, A1 Dairies, Images. New section added 'Personnel and Trade Unions'.
07-11-2024 New images and comments added to Staplemead, North-Yorkshire, Transport-Vans, Transport-Rigids, Transport-Maintenance, Parades, Cricklewood, Shops-Premier Supermarkets, Thornbury, Seaton Junction and Billingshurst.
06-11-2024 New images added to Depots B, C-G, T-Z and Shops A-Z.
02-11-2024 Two images moved from Bits and Pieces to Containers, in a new Miscellaneous section.
OCTOBER 2024
31-10-2024 New images added to Braziers Dairies, A1 Dairies, Transport-Horsedrawn, Appleby Early Times, Transport-Tankers, Transport-Churns, Ruyton and Thornbury.
30-10-2024 New section added to Nerds Corner- 'Bottles, Churns, Cream Pots etc'. New images added to Transport-Vans, Transport-Churns, Transport-Retail, Eggs, Shops, Shops A-Z, Longlife and UHT, Product Pictures, College Farm and Depots-H.
28-10-2024 Thornbury is now set up in the Processing Section. New Exmouth picture added to Depots C-G.
27-10-2024 New and updated images added to Exeter, Transport-Churns, Transport-Tankers, Appleby Early Days, Seaton Junction and Didcot Processing.
25-10-2024 New and updated images added to Depots N-P, Exeter, Exeter Staff, Tuxford and Tebbutt, Parades, Transport-Vans, Transport-Rail, South Morden to 1979 and Job's.
24-10-2024 Faringdon Creamery History has been added to the Express Dairy Tales publications section.
23-10-2024 New images added to Didcot, Job's Dairy, Depots-H (High Wycombe) and Faringdon. Didcot and Farringdon now have their own sections on the website, and Faringdon has been removed from 'Creameries-A-Z'.
14-10-2024 New images added to Exeter, Exeter Staff, Depots-B (Bloomsbury). Documents section split into two to match videos - Express Dairy and General interest. Link to new video about margarine production at Tower Creamery, Mitcham added to Videos-General Interest. 1940's article about working at Tower Creameries added to Documents-General Interest.
13-10-2024 New images added to North Tawton, Exeter, Exeter Staff and Mitcham Foods.
12-10-2024 New images added to North Tawton, Exeter, Robart's Farms, Depots I-M, S, Posters & Adverts. New section created 'Exeter Staff' for staff photos from the dairy, from Phil Budd.
11-10-2024 John Stonehill's article about Joel Street Farm added to re-titled section for Robart's Farms.
10-10-2024 New images added to Rowsley, Staplemead and Lockerbie creameries, and Parades.
09-10-2024 New images added to Maidstone, Depots C-G, H, Shops, Shops A-Z, Transport-Rail and Posters.
06-10-2024 New images added to Parades, Transport-Tankers, Job's, Didcot, Eltham, Depots B, C-G, H, N-P, Q-S, Morden <79 and Maidstone/ Primrose & Len. The Depot section Q-S has now been split into two- R and S and some errors on the page titles corrected.
04-10-2024 New Job's Dairy (Didcot and Retail Depots acquired by Express in 1970) added to Job's, Didcot and Depots N-P.
02-10-2024 New images added to Transport-Rail, Depots B, I-M, North-Yorkshire, Restaurants and Cafes. Link added in Videos-General to 'The Milk Float'
01-10-2024 New images added to Parades, Retail London <74, Bromley, Transport-Vehicle Maintenance, Depots N-P, Transport-Churns and Transport-Rail. Updated video of Petersham Farm added.
SEPTEMBER 2024
30-09-2024 New image added to Retail-London before 1974. New video links added for Paul Luke's Ecofresh milk round venture, and Alan Smith's retirement.
29-09-2024 Seven new shop images added from the London Transport Collection. New 1916 image added to the Restaurants and Cafes section. New images and comments added to Depots I-M, T-Z and Transport-Hand Carts.
28-09-2024 Retail-Shops sections have been amended. Premier Supermarkets are now in their own section Shops-Premier Supermarkets, leaving only other shops in a re-titled section 'Shops & Shop Management (Chronological). A new section 'Shops A-Z' has been created, with shops in order of location, plus a small section at the end with unknown shops.
27-09-2024 New user comments and images added to Seaton Junction, Depots Q-S, Ruyton, Honiton, Shops, Appleby and A1 Dairies.
26-09-2024 New images added to Cricklewood and Express Foods and Cheese Co News (title now amended to 1988 onwards)
25-09-2024 South Ruislip 1979 and before, and 1980 onwards rationalised to include only what the titles suggest! New images added to A1 Dairies and Depots-H.
22-09-2024 Comments added to Exeter and Overseas. New section for Andover Creameries added to 'Dairy Companies that became part of Express'. Note: Andover still exists in Depots-A, for activities after the 1970's. Three new 1960's Appleby images from Philip Allen added to Appleby-Early Days. New document added for the History of Frith Manor Farm, and this section of the website also updated.
21-09-2024 New image from Edith Andreasen added to Minsterley.
18-09-2024 Facebook user comments added to Ruyton, and Depots-S (Shirley)
17-09-2024 New images added to Depots I-M, Transport-Vans and Special Vehicles, Posters and Adverts, Creameries-Other.
14-09-2024 New images added to Shops, and Over the Years.
13-09-2024 New images added to Independent Milk Supplies, Depots-H, Hornby & Clarke, Shops. New document added 'From Cow to Consumer' from Commercial Motor in 1937.
11-09-2024 New images added to Sanquhar, Lockerbie, Depots I-M and Bits and Pieces.
09-09-2024 New images and comments added to Seaton Junction, Transport-Churns, Transport-Tankers, North-Manchester, A1 Dairies, Depots Q-S, Farms & Dairying, Awards, Shops and Ski.
06-05-2024 New document added to Express Dairy Tales Publications section, showing the Express locations in London in 1935.
05-09-2024 New images added to North Tawton, Reece's, Whittington, Oswestry, Creameries-Other, North-Manchester, Transport-General, Seaton Junction, Depots T-Z, Retail-Marketing, South Ruislip Head Office > 1980, Over the Years, Honiton.
AUGUST 2024
29-08-2024 New images of Holywood Creamery added to Creameries-Other, Over the Years and Shops also updated with new material. New document added "Holywood Creamery and Dumfries". New Express Dairy Tales publication about Wigton (Cumbria) added to Egg Packing. This includes a fascinating interview of William Nixon Ismay, born in 1940, and tells of his work for Express Dairy.
27-08-2024 New video 'A Better Milk Story' added 'Job's Dairy Hanworth in the 1960's', to the general interest section. New images and comments added to Job's, Tuxford & Tebbutt, Shops, Woodgate, South Morden to 1979, North-Cheshire, Hornby & Clarke and Billingshurst.
26-08-2024 New video added 'Job's Dairy Hanworth in the 1920's', to the general interest section.
25-08-2024 Link to full version of EU Commision report added, plus YouTube link to new Job's Dairy, Didcot plant video from 1961.
24-08-2024 New video about the rise and decline of Seaton Junction, added to the Express Videos section. New image of the churn bank at Billingshurst added, together with a correct caption in Appleby-Early Days.
21-08-2024 New reports added to Express Dairy Tales Publications section- Extract from 1975 EU Commission report about the dairy sector, and Premier Supermarkets in 1957. New images about Maelor Creamery added to the MMB section, courtesy of Paul Smith.
19-08-2024 Many new images added to Seaton Junction, and all images re-ordered chronologically. New shop images added to Retail-Shops and Supermarkets.
16-08-2024 13 new images added to Woodgate Farms.
15-08-2024 New images added to Over The Years, Staplemead, South Ruislip Ops and Transport-Hand Trucks.
08-08-2024 New images added to Depots A, C-G, N-P, Q-S, Cuddington-Horners, Transport Hand Trucks, Rigids, Maintenance, Tankers, Churns, Bits and Pieces, South Ruislip <79, MMB and Shops.
01-08-2024 New images added to Training Centre/ Rossmore Road, Transport-General, Exeter, Depots Q-S, T-Z, Maidstone, Cuddington, Creameries-Other and Frith Manor Farm.
JULY 2024
24-07-2024 Link to YouTube video of milk bottling at A1 Dairies, Whetstone in the early 1960's. New images added to Depots C-G, N-P, Q-S, Minsterley Village, Milborne, Seaton Junction, Posters and Adverts, Creameries-Other A-Z, Parades, Transport-Hand Carts. A new section was added for Milk Vessels Recovery Ltd (MVR).
23-07-2024 Over 60 new images added to Woodgate Farms, other changes made to Depots B and H, North-Yorkshire, Rowsley, Tithe Farm and Transport-Artics. Woodgate Farms article from 1949 added to the Documents-Express Dairy Tales publications section.
12-07-2024 New images added to Exeter, Depots-B, Other Dairies, Farms and Dairying. New section added for Brazier’s Dairy.
09-07-2024 New images added to Milborne, North-Yorkshire, Lapford, Bits and Pieces, Cricklewood, Shops, Ski, Job’s, Didcot.
05-07-2024 New images from the Devon Transport History FB Group added to Crediton, Transport-Tankers, Honiton, Eggs, Exeter, Lapford and Transport-Churn Collection.
04-07-2024 New images and FB Group members comments added to Staplemead, Minsterley Early Times, Creameries-Other, Depots C-G, Q-S, South Ruislip R&D. New document added to the Documents section: The Evolution of the British Cheese Industry, by Nigel White. Published by the Society of Dairy Technology, November 2018.
JUNE 2024
25-06-2024 New images added to Depots B, T-Z, Shops, Bits and Pieces, Directors >74, A1 Dairies, Other Dairies and Farms and Dairying.
19-06-2024 New 1979 images added to Bromley, Directors >74, Horticulture, South Ruislip Head Office <80, Depots A, H, T-Z, Parades, Overseas and Shops.
18-06-2024 New images from FB members added to Transport-Tankers, Transport-General, Tarvin, Milborne and Images/Artwork. New 1979 images added to Depots B, C-G, N-P, Lockerbie, Retail London >75, Over the Years, Parades, Bits and Pieces, and Awards.
16-06-2024 New 1960 images added to South Ruislip Head Office and these two sections renamed - 79 and before, plus 80 onwards. New images also added to Transport-Vans. New Autumn 19778 images added to North-Yorks, Retail-SW, Parades, Overseas, Retail-Marketing, South Ruislip <=79, Computing, Over the Years, Retail-London, Directors > 74, Transport-Horsedrawn, Cricklewood, Depots A, B, C-G, H, I-M, Q-S, T-Z, College Farm, Appleby >70, Ski, North-Manchester and MMB.
15-06-2024 New images from FB members added to Shops, Depots B, N-P, Transport-Churns, Transport-Mtnce, TH Lewis, South Ruislip Ops, Awards and Long Service, Bits and Pieces.
12-06-2024 Images and comments added to Hawley's, Depots B, N-P, Maidstone, Shops, Retail-London <74, Posters and Advertisements, Transport-Rigids. The Independent Dairies now also includes information from Wathes, Cattell & Gurden Ltd.
11-06-2024 Summer 1978 images added to Ski, Depots A, C-G, I-M, N-P, Q-S, T-Z, MMB, Over the Years, Directors >74, Parades, Awards, Other Dairies, Retail SW, Images, Cuddington, North-Yorks, Appleby >70, Bits and Pieces and South Ruislip Head Office <84.
10-06-2024 New 1978 images added to Over the Years, Ski, Directors >74, Catering, Depots B, N-P, Q-S, T-Z, Overseas, North-Yorkshire, North-Cheshire, North-Manchester, Bits and Pieces, Parades, Lockerbie, Crediton and Transport-Hand Carts.
07-06-2024 More 1977 images added to Hawley's, Other Ops-Dairies, Driver of the Year, Long Life/ UHT, Over the Years, Directors >74, North-Cheshire, North-Manchester, Parades and Charity, Retail-London, Minsterley > 70, Depots N-P, Q-S, South Morden to 79.
06-06-2024 New 1977 images added to North-Scotland, North-Yorkshire, North-Cheshire, Depots A, B, H, I-M, N-P and T-Z, Exeter, Shops, Over the Years, Cuddington staff, South Ruislip Ops, Tithe Farm, Eggs, Parades.
05-06-2024 New milk bottle image added to Kilmaurs Creamery.
04-06-2024 New laboratory image of Kilmaurs Creamery added.
02-06-2024 New sub-section added to Nerds Corner for Milk Marketing Board images. New pictures added to Seaton Junction.
MAY 2024
31-05-2024 New 1977 images added to Milborne, North-Manchester, Depots A, B, C-G, Q-S, T-Z, Tuxford and Tebbutt, Bits and Pieces, Shops, Exeter, Parades, North-Yorks, Ski, Images, Over the Years, Maidstone, Overseas, South Ruislip HO, Transport-Maintenance, North Tawton and Awards.
28-05-2024 Lapford Story text changed to indicate it was owned by Express in 1971, new video link added for Premier Supermarkets. New 1976 images added to Depots C-G, I-M, Q-S, T-Z, South Ruislip Head Office <84, North-Manchester, Over the Years, Directors < 74, A1 Dairies, Parades, Ski and Retail-Marketing. New image added to Kilmaurs Creamery, and Les Hose's name corrected on Depots Q-S.
27-05-2024 Images from 1957 Premier Supermarkets film 'Time for Leisure' added to Shops, Horticulture and South Ruislip Ops.
24-05-2024 Comments from Group members added to Depots N-P, Q-S, T-Z and Bowyers.
23-05-2024 Link to new video added of Beryl Purslove's retirement in 1992. Group members comments added to Kilmaurs and Lapford.
22-05-2024 New sub-section created in Creameries for Kilmaurs, acquired by Express in the early 1970's. New material also added to Bromley, Lockerbie, Sanquhar and Ruyton.
18-05-2024 Images from 1976 added to North-Lancs, North-Yorks, Depots B, H, N-P, Q-S, T-Z, Retail SW, Ski, Directors >74, Over the Years, Bromley, Sherborne, Hawley's and Marketing.
17-05-2024 More 1975 images and stories added to Marketing, Retail-SW, Shops, South Ruislip Head Office <84, North-Yorkshire, North-Cheshire, Over the Years, Hillingdon Depot, Directors >74, Crediton, Transport-General, Mtnce, Tankers and Rigids, Parades, Eggs and Tarvin.
16-05-2024 New 1975 images and stories added to Depots A, B, C-G, I-M, N-P, T-Z, College Farm, Sherborne, Hawley's, Over the Years, Directors >74, Transport-General, Bits and Pieces, North-Manchester, North-Cheshire, Cricklewood, South Ruislip HO <84, Awards and Long Service, Marketing, and A1 Dairies.
14-05-2024 New Transport section created for Vehicle Brochures, with extensive new images from milkfloats.org, and images previously in Vehicle Maintenance moved. New Didcot Dairy brochure added.
13-05-2024 New 1972/3 images added to Tavistock Place, All Depot sections, Training Centres, Overseas, Parades, Ski, North-Manchester, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Scotland, Exeter, Didcot, Over the Years, Awards, Marketing, North Tawton, Directors >74, Transport-General, Maintenance, Tankers, South Ruislip Operations, South Ruislip Head Office > 84, Haywards Heath, Milborne, Minsterley > 70 and Cricklewood. Comment added to Sanquhar, new wartime milk distribution film link added.
09-05-2024 Comments added to Depots C-G, Appleby >70, Shops, Directors <73. New link to Express cartoon video 'Order an Extra Pint' from the 1970's added to the videos section. Retail depots that were renamed have been re-sorted, Vicarage Farm information is now listed under Kentish Town, Tithe Farm under Mill Hill and Gipsy Hill under Upper Norwood. If you search for the older name a notice tells you the new one. Thanks to Chris Austen for the info.
08-05-2024 New set of images from Soo Rose-Cook added to website, in Honiton, Ruyton and Graduate Recruitment Sections. The HEAD OFFICE section now includes renamed 'Annual Reports' and ' Graduate Recruitment'. New Frome depot image from Elaine Moyes added to Depots C-G, other comments added to South Ruislip HO <84, Minsterley Early Days and Shops.
03-05-2024 Interesting, academic pdf document added to 'Books and Documents' section - 'Milk in Motion-Logistical Geographies in Twentieth-Century Britain' by Chris Otter of the Department of History, The Ohio State University.
02-05-2024 New images and stories from Christmas 1973 added to Crediton, Long Life milk, Driver of the Year, Depots N-P, T-Z, Over the Years, Marketing, Posters, North-Manchester, North-Cheshire, North-Scotland, Horticulture, South Ruislip Head Office <84, Honiton, Shops, Minsterley >70, Appleby Early Times and Maidstone.
01-05-2024 Images and stories from 1973 added to Over the Years, Depots B, C-G, H, I-M, N-P, Q-S, North-Yorks, Directors <73, Exeter, Bromley Processing, Awards, South Ruislip <84, Maidstone, Sanquhar, College Farm, North-Manchester, North-Cheshire, North-Scotland, Eggs, Ski, Product Pictures, Cricklewood and South Morden <79
APRIL 2024
24-04-2024 Depot sectIon reorganised, as some subsections were becoming too large. The revised sub-sections are A, B, C-G, H, I-M, N-P, Q-S and T-Z. Similar changes made to Directors, the revised sections are now 'Directors and Senior Managers 1973 and before' and 1974 and after.
New images and stories from Christmas 1972 added to Tavistock Place, all Depots, Cricklewood, Lapford, North Tawton, Directors <73, North-Scotland, South Ruislip Head Office <84, Bollo Lane, Appleby >70, Over the Years, Retail-Marketing, Publicity, Retail-London, Overseas, Maidstone, Ski, Colindale, South Ruislip Ops, Sanquhar and Tithe Farm.
23-04-2024 New Autumn 1972 images and stories added to Over the Years, Scotland, Overseas, Awards, Directors, Maidstone, Didcot, Staplemead, South Ruislip Ops, Parades, Minsterley >70, North-Cheshire, North-Yorkshire, Bits and Pieces, Exeter, and Depots A-B, H-L, M-P.
21-04-2024 New Summer 1972 images added to Parades, Ski, Over the Years, Directors <74, Bits and Pieces, Transport-General, Transport-Retail, Transport-Maintenance, Retail-South West, Retail London, Retail-Marketing, North-Yorks, North-Manchester, Product Pictures, Hawleys, Depots A-B, C-G, H-L, M-P, Q-S, T-Z, Awards, South Ruislip Operations, Milborne, Staplemead, Maidstone, Lapford, Honiton, Transport-Driver of the Year.
20-04-2024 New Spring 1972 images added to Parades, Retail London (both), Depots A-B, H-L, M-P, Q-S, T-Z, Ski, Transport-Retail, Scotland, Cricklewood, Minsterley <74, Milborne, Sanquhar, Over the Years, Maidstone, Shops, Restaurants, South Ruislip Ops, Awards and Long Service, Directors <74. Honiton comment added.
18-04-2024 Some copyright attributions corrected on Lapford Creamery entries, and a corrected Creameries Timeline inserted.
17-04-2024 Lapford creamery (Ambrosia) now added to the Creameries section, and the Creameries Timeline now amended to include Lapford.
16-04-2024 New sub-section for Marketing created within Retail Section. New images from 1971 added to Overseas, Exeter, Awards, Product Pictures, Parades, Depots A-B, C-G, M-P and T-Z, South Ruislip Operations, Minsterley > 70, Petersham Farm, Over the Years, Transport-Maintenance and South Ruislip <84. Video stills added to Tarvin, Reece's, Oswestry sections.
15-04-2024 New video added about the early history of Tarvin Dairy. New images added to Sudbury Park Farm, Tarvin, Retail-London <74, Rowsley, Parades, Tranport-Horsedrawn, Bits and Pieces, Depots M-P, Transport-Retail and South Morden >1980. New Spring 1971 images and stories added to Over the Years, Directors <74, Depots A-B, H-L, M-P, Q-S, T-Z, Product PIctures Job's, Ski, Transport-General, Transport-Maintenance, North-Yorkshire, Retail-London, South Ruislip <84, Tavistock Place and Appleby.
11-04-2024 New images and stories added to Didcot, Job's Dairy, Appleby, Whittington, Honiton, Minsterley, Transport-General, Transport-Driver of the Year, Training Centres, Petersham Farm, North-Yorkshire, Leyburn, Other Dairy Operations, Over the Years, Directors before 1974, Ski and Yogurts, Transport-Horsedrawn, Frith Manor Farm, Parades and Publicity, Shops, South Ruislip Head Office before 1984, All Depot sections, North-Manchester, North-Cheshire and Scotland.
10-04-2024 New section added for Job's Dairy. New images and stories from 1973 added to Over the Years, Eltham, Catering, Cricklewood, Hawley's, Awards, Directors <74, Ski, Overseas, Depots A-B, M-P, T-Z, Scotland, North-Yorkshire.
05-04-2024 New images added to South Morden > 1980, Directors > 1975 and Transport-Artics and General.
MARCH 2024
29-03-2024 New images added to South Morden >1980, Bits and Pieces, Wesley & Gatcombe, Retail-London <1974.
28-03-2024 New images and comments added to Depot Lists, Whittington, Minsterley Early Days, Creameries-Other, Transport-Rail, Exeter, Ski, Hotels and Didcot.
24-03-2024 New images and comments added to Catering, Exeter, Honiton and Retail SW. New 'Dancing milk bottles' video advert added to Videos-General.
22-03-2024 New videos added: 1. "Setting the Standards" showcases the Company's operations, 2. Corporate video from 1991, 3. Grand Metropolitan Foods Europe - 1990's - discusses the management of industrial waste.
21-03-2024 New video added about Cheshire cheese production at Reece's Creamery, Malpas.
18-03-2024 Article about Express in Eltham added to Processing-Eltham.
15-03-2024 New images from 1967 added to Parades, Horticulture, Minsterley Early Days, Crediton, Depots H-L, Tavistock Place, Awards, Driver of the Year, North-Yorkshire, TH Lewis and Directors <74.
12-03-2024 New images added to South Morden > 85, Transport-Rail, Depots T-Z and Shops.
09-03-2024 New images from Summer 1982 added to Catering, Depots A-B, C-G, Q-S, Over the Years, Exeter, Directors > 75, Staplemead and Ruyton.
08-03-2024 New images added to Tithe Farm, Frith Manor Farm, Cricklewood, Depots A-B, Farms and Dairying, Product Pictures and Eggs. New document added to EDT: 'Forgotten milkmaids and cows of St James’s and Green Park'.
06-03-2024 New subsection added to HISTORY OF EXPRESS DAIRY - 'Express Beginnings', article from the Camden History Group. New rail tanker images from GWR article by John Hosegood added to Transport-Rail, Didcot and South Morden. Updates to Shops, Posters, Tuxford and Tebbutt. Creameries Timeline added to the Creameries section, showing the period of operation of all the creameries.
05-03-2024 New images and stories from April 1982 added to Parades, Depots A-B, H-L, M-P, T-Z, Crediton, Honiton, Ruyton, Petersham Farm, Ski, Scotland, Transport-General, Transport-Rail, North-Cheshire, Catering, Retail SW, Exeter, Didcot, South Ruislip Processing, Over the Years and Directors > 75. Images from other FB Groups, and Express Dairy Tales Group, added to College Farm, Depots C-G, Tarvin, Driver of the Year and Tuxford and Tebbutt.
03-03-2024 New images and stories from July 1981 added to North-Manchester, North-Cheshire, Tarvin, Parades, Transport-Horsedrawn, Horticulture, Posters, Product Pictures and Depots C-G, H-L, Q-S.
02-03-2024 Comments updated on Staplemead, Exeter and Depots C-G. New 1968 images and stories added to Shops, Posters, Restaurants, Depots Q-S, M-P, T-Z, Hotels, Bits and Pieces, Awards, Overseas, Directors <74, Tavistock Place, Retail-London <74, Transport-Churns and Over the Years.
FEBRUARY 2024
29-02-2024 Video sections now reorganised-videos featuring Express Dairy are in one section, General Interest Videos in another. New images added to Shops, Rowsley. Comments from FB added to Appleby and South Morden <79.
28-02-2024 New 1981 images and stories added to A1 Dairies, Overseas, Over the Years, Cuddington, Staplemead, Parades and Charity, All Depot sections except A-B, Shops, Retail-London >75, Appleby, Appleby Early Times, South Morden >80.
27-02-2024 New 1982 images and stories added to Appleby (all sections), Parades, Depots A-B, C-G, H-L, Q-S, Hunt's Dairies Sherborne, South Ruislip Ops, Awards, Maidstone, Tuxford and Tebbutt, Over the Years, Directors >75, Ski, Retail SW and Overseas. Video section reorganised and new link added to Express Cookery Demonstration. New images also added to Sudbury Park Farm, Farms and Dairying, Directors <74, Transport-Retail and Transport-Rail.
26-02-2024 Section heading mistake corrected, now just Didcot (Faringdon was moved to Creameries-Other previously). Wirral content moved to North-Manchester and section heading amended to include. New 1969 images added to Frith Manor Farm, Transport-Tankers, Over the Years, Directors <74, South Morden <79, Parades, Awards, North-Manchester, North-Yorkshire, Ski, Depots Q-S, H-L, Creameries-Other and Depot Lists. Comments added to Depots Q-S and Shops.
24-02-2024 New Summer 1968 images and stories added to Rowsley, Appleby Early Days, Maidstone, Cuddington, Overseas, Hotels, Depots C-G, M-P, T-Z, Posters, Ski, Product Pictures, Long Life/UHT, Parades and Publicity, College Farm, North-Manchester, Directors <74, Exeter, Awards and Catering.
23-02-2024 Ruyton leaflets moved to new category. New 1968 images and stories added to South Ruislip Head Office <84, South Ruislip Operations, Horticulture, Parades and Publicity, Maidstone, Petersham Farm, London Retail <74, Shops, Directors <74, Depots A-B, C-G, H-L, Q-S, Hotels, Ski, Catering, Staplemead and Express Over the Years.
20-02-2024 New images added to Frith Manor Farm and North-Yorkshire.
19-02-2024 South London article from 1981 added to Retail-London >85.
17-02-2024 New images added to Shops, Minsterley, A1 Dairies, Cricklewood, Depots H-L, Q-S, South Morden Processing, which has now been split into two sections - up to 1979, and 1980 onwards.
11-02-2024 New images from Adam Faiers about his grandfather added to new Stoke Newington section of Depots Q-S.
09-02-2024 Over 50 new images and stories added to Ruyton, and a second Ruyton section added containing the factory visitors brochure, description of the dairy by Yoland Brown, and the latest, second edition of 'The Story of Ruyton Creamery' by Express Dairy Tales.
07-02-2024 Christmas 1969 images added to Parades, Directors <74, Over the Years, Glasgow, South Ruislip HO <84, Honiton, Retail-London <74, Petersham Farm, Driver of the Year, Bromley Processing, Appleby Early Days, North-Manchester, North-Yorkshire, Hotels, Maidstone, Depots A-B, H-L, M-P, T-Z.
06-02-2024 October 1959 images added to Transport-Horsedrawn, Driver of the Year, Frith Manor Farm, College Farm, Parades, Whittington, Ruyton, Retail-London <74, North-Yorks, Over the Years, Depots A-B, H-L, Shops, Other Ops, South Morden, Cricklewood and Wesley & Gatcombe.
05-02-2024 December 1959 images added to Over the Years, Appleby Early Days, North-Yorkshire, Product Pictures, Parades and Tavistock Place. Retail-London and South now split into two sections -1974 and before, and 1975 onwards. South Ruislip Head Office also split into two sections - 1984 and before, 1985 onwards.
04-02-2024 1958 images and material added to Ski, Yogurts & Eden Vale [new title], North-Manchester, North-Yorkshire, Seaton Junction, Parades, Tithe Farm, College Farm, Depots C-G, H-L, M-P, Retail-London, Awards, Shops, South Morden, Driver of the Year, Tavistock Place, Leyburn and Bollo Lane.
03-02-2024 New December 1957 images added to North-Yorkshire, Shops, Parades, Images, Depots A-B, H-L, Q-S, Creameries-Other, Awards, Leyburn and Seaton Junction.
02-02-2024 New 1956 and 1957 images and stories added to Depots A-B, C-G, H-L, Q-S, Leyburn Creamery, Tavistock Place, Shops, Training Centres, Over the Years, Whittington, Parades, College Farm, Petersham Farm, Retail-London, Sudbury Park Farm, North-Cheshire, North-Yorkshire, Seaton Junction and Exeter.
JANUARY 2024
31-01-2024 New 1960's images added to South Ruislip HO, Transport-General, Transport-Maintenance, Tranport-Driver of the Year, Directors <74, Over the Years, Retail-London, Depots H-L, Q-S, T-Z, Parades and Charity, North Manchester, Computing, Long Life/ UHT/ Tetrapak (now renamed to include Tetrapak), Posters and Adverts, Appleby-Early Times, South Ruislip Ops, Training Centre, Crediton, Farms-Petersham, Milborne.
29-01-2024 New 1975 images and stories added to Transport-Artics, Directors <74, Product Pictures, Parades, Depots A-B, C-G, T-Z, Staplemead, Farms-Petersham, Over The Years and Appleby. New images added from other FB Groups to Bollo Lane, Transport-Tankers, Rail, Horsedrawn and Churns.
27-01-2024 New images and comments added to Didcot, South Morden Processing, Long life, Appleby Early Days, Other ops, Parades, Depots C-G, H-L, Leyburn, Over the Years, North-Manchester, Seaton Junction, Artwork and Images, Tavistock Place, Transport-Driver of the Year, Eggs and Retail SW. 1984 images added to Shops, Transport-Hand, Transport-Horsedrawn, Transport-Churns, Transport-Retail, College Farm, T.H. Lewis and Tavistock Place. 1960 images added to all Depots, Directors > 75, Retail South West, Over the Years, Retail-London and Catering.
New Express Dairy Tales document added - 1960 illustrated fictional account ‘As we were - 1862—1934'
24-01-2024 New images added to Depots A-B, H-L, M-P, T-Z, Transport Vehicle Maintenance, Horsedrawn, Hand Carts, Tankers and Rigids, Other Operations, Exeter, Sherborne, UHT, South Morden Processing, Bits and Pieces, Staplemead, Honiton, Posters, Appleby, Eggs, Seaton Junction, Images and Artwork, Horam and Directors <74.
23-01-2024 New images and stories from Summer 1960 added to Over the Years, North-Manchester, North-Yorkshire, Training Centres (now renamed to plural), Lockerbie, Creameries-Other, Depots A-B, Appleby Early Days, Parades and Charity, Whittington, Transport-Driver of the Year and Scotland. Autumn 1960 images added to Parades, South Ruislip Processing, Shops, Appleby Early Days, Depots A-B, H-L, Transport-Vans, Transport-Horsedrawn, Driver of the Year, Frith Manor Farm, North-Yorkshire and North-Derbyshire.
22-01-2024 Captions updated from Facebook comments on Transport-Retail, Minsterley Social 2 and Maidstone. July 1958 images and stories added to Bits and Pieces, Eggs, Over the Years, Parades, South Ruisiip Ops, Shops, North-Yorks, Depots C-G, Driver of the Year, Retail-London, Dairy Supply Co, Leyburn, Cricklewood and Colindale. Safety First dinners for drivers now moved to Driver of the Year/ Safety First Events (retitled).
21-01-2024 New images added to Transport-Rail. 1969 images added to Appleby Early Days, Over the Years, Hotels, Transport-Retail, Farms-Petersham, Depots A-B, C-G, Parades, North-Yorkshire, Computing, Independent Dairies.
20-01-2024 New images and stories from 1974 added to Directors < 74, Over the Years, South Ruislip Head Office, Glasgow, Depots A-B, C-G, Posters and Adverts and North-Cheshire.
19-01-2024 New images and stories from 1959 added to Appleby Early Days, Seaton Junction, Transport Retail, Depots A-B, M-P, Q-S, South Ruislip Operations, Shops, Restaurants, Parades and Charity, Artwork and Images, Staplemead and Retail-London. 1971 images added to Over the Years, North-Yorks, Depots T-Z, South Morden Processing, Milborne, Bits and Pieces, Retail-London and Directors <74. Facebook contributions added to Awards, Exeter, Transport-Rigids, Transport-Horsedrawn, North-Cheshire, Bits and Pieces, Transport-Churns, Sherborne, Depots A-B, H-L, M-P.
18-01-2024 New images and stories from 1976 added to Appleby, Didcot, Product Pictures, Training Centre, Over the Years, Directors >75, Catering, North-Manchester, North-Yorkshire, Depots A-B, H-L, Q-S, T-Z.
16-01-2024 A1 Dairies, Minsterley Early Days and Ski updated with new comments. Aylesbury Foods and Woodhouse Hume are now separate sections.
10-01-2024 Captions updated from Facebook comments for Minsterley, Depots H-L, M-P, Tarvin and Directors Before 1974.
07-01-2024 New 1967 images added to Hotels, Over the Years, Depots H-L, Directors < 1974, T.H. Lewis, Parades, Minsterley, Ruyton, Whittington, Scotland, Cricklewood, Tavistock Place and Transport-Maintenance.
04-01-2024 New 1969 images added to Honiton, Eggs, Product Pictures, Depots A-B, C-G, H-L, T-Z, South Ruislip Operations, Directors, Exeter, Appleby Early Times, Milborne, Staplemead, Minsterley Early Times, Cricklewood, South Ruislip Processing, Hornby and Clarke, Tavistock Place and Training Centre.
03-01-2024 New 1970 images added to Hotels, Depots A-B, M-P, Q-S, Transport-Maintenance, South Morden Processing, Directors <74, Product Pictures, Appleby, Honiton, College Farm, A1 Dairies, Van Sales, Other Dairies, Transport-General and Tavistock Place. New 1956 images added to Depots A-B, C-G, T-Z, South Morden, Directors, Retail-London, Horam, Transport-General, Rigids, Vans, Retail, Tankers and Horse, Parades, Rowsley, Creameries-Other, Eltham, Tavistock Place and North-Cheshire.
02-01-2024 New 1965 images added to Express Over the Years, Other Dairies, Minsterley Staff, Mitcham Foods, Product Pictures, Transport-Horsedrawn, Depots A-B, H-L, M-P, T-Z, Hotels, Long Service and Awards, Tavistock Place, North-Yorkshire, Restaurants, Retail-London, Shops.
01-01-2024 New 1962 images added to Creameries-Other, Horticulture, Driver of the Year, Transport-Artics and General, Directors <1974, Catering, Retail-London, Shops, Express Over the Years, Crediton, Appleby-Early Days, Mitcham Foods, Parades, Hotels, Depots H-L, T-Z, M-P, Q-S, Staplemead, Whittington and Minsterley-Early Days. New images and stories added to Mitcham Foods, Cuddington and Minsterley Social 2.
2023 summary of updates archived to pdf file, you can view this in the Documents section, Website Updates.