Changes (most recent at the top)
12-05-2025 New comments added to Lockerbie and Sanquhar, new images added to Posters and Adverts, College Farm. Revised IN DEPTH article, and new images, added to Frith Manor Farm. South Morden staff list added to IN DEPTH on South Morden > 1980, new images also added to Sudbury Park Farm, Images, Shops A-K, Shops L-Z, Colindale.
10-05-2025 New images added to Premier Supermarkets and Creameries-Other (Brailsford). New comment added to Transport-Rail.
09-05-2025 New images added to MMB, Ruyton, Images, Bits & Pieces, Product Pictures, Shops L-Z, Transport-Horsedrawn, Transport-Vans, Transport-Rail, Retail-London <74. New IN DEPTH section. added to MMB, with link to Elmbridge Museum's online exhibition.
08-05-2025 Over 50 new images added to Farms & Dairying, Depots B, H, Images and Artwork, College Farm, Transport-Rail, Churns (now called Churn Collection), Horsedrawn and Vans, Shops A-K, L-Z, Creameries-Other, Milborne, Minsterley-Early Times, North-Scotland, Dairy Supply Company, Eggs. New section created Exhibitions-Other and Exhibitions-British Empire Exhibition renamed. Pictures re-arranged to take into account the new Exhibitions section, and changes made to Bits and Pieces, Milk for the Millions, Creameries-Other, Transport-Vans, Directors >74, Transport-Horsedrawn, North-Cheshire, Images and Artwork, Parades, Premier Supermarkets, College Farm, Product Pictures, Chesterfield and Sportsmen and Women.
07-05-2025 New images added to Horticulture, Depots-B, I-M, Dobson's Dairies, Shops-Premier Supermarkets, Hornby & Clarke, Sloane's Dairies.
06-05-2025 New image added to Retail London <74, and comment added to Sanquhar. New video section added to Horticulture-Thorpe Lea nursery.
05-05-2025 Further changes made, with the two video sections (General and Express), and Books & Documents (General and Express) now also incorporated into the relevant subject sub-sections. The two video sections have now been removed, as I consider that duplication would be confusing, and be more difficult to maintain. New images added to South Ruislip Head Office <79 and South Morden 70's.
04-05-2025 Extensive changes made to the Express Dairy Tales Publications section, which has been removed, and the links to its contents are now shown in new 'IN DEPTH' sections at the beginning of the relevant sub-section e.g. Creameries-Seaton Junction, or Transport-General, etc. A new sub-section has been created in HISTORY OF EXPRESS DAIRY for 'Early times in London'.
03-05-2025 New images added to Shops L-Z, Sanquhar. New comment added to Bradford.
01-05-2025 New comments and images added to Transport-Artics, Sheffield, Bits and Pieces, Retail London <74.
APRIL 2025
30-04-2025 New images added to Ski, Creameries-Other, Over the Years, Depots-H, S, W-Z, Transport-General, Driver of the Year, Minsterley >70, South Ruislip Ops, North-Yorkshire, North-Manchester, Bits and Pieces, Woodgate (now amended to Woodgate Farms & Sheffield Park), Wakefield.
29-04-2025 New comments added to Wakefield and South Morden > 80. New images added to Exeter, Directors >74, Transport-Hand Carts, Depots B, C-G, H, Retail-Marketing, North-Cheshire.
26-04-2025 New images added to South Morden >1980 and Transport-Maintenance, new comments and dates added to Personnel and Trade Unions.
25-04-2025 New images and comments added to Depots I-M, T-V, South Morden >1980, Wakefield, Transport-Tankers. Farms-Snape, Craven Dairies.
23-04-2025 New main section added 'Other Dairies' and Brazier's Dairies moved, together with Craven Dairies (new). This is for dairy companies that had some association or connection with Express but were not owned by them. New images added to Depots I-M, Depots W-Z, Transport-Rigid, Other-Dairy, Transport-Hand Carts, Bradford and Training Centres. Other Operations is now an A-Z section.
21-04-2025 Some images redistributed from North-Yorkshire to other sections. New images added to Depots C-G, Wakefield, Sheffield and Sports. New sub-section created within Milk Processing for Dewsbury and Manorcroft Dairy.
20-04-2025 New pdf added 'Memories of Wakefield' and images added to Wakefield, Transport-Vans.
19-04-2025 New pdf added to Express Dairy Tales publications from the Wembley History Society- a review of Sudbury Dairy Farms. New images added to Ruyton, Sudbury Park Farm, Posters and Adverts.
18-04-2025 New images added to Depots C-G, Morden-Rail Operations, Parades, Tarvin and College Farm.
17-04-2025 New images and comments added to Directors >74, North-Yorkshire, South Ruislip Ops, Depots-H, Tranport-Rail, Seaton Junction and Cricklewood. Two completely new sections added to Nerds Corner-NDBI and Sports men and women.
15-04-2025 New images added to Maidstone (Primrose and Len), Wakefield, Reece's and Transport-Tankers. Comments added to Wakefield. New item about the 1959 village water shortage added to Ruyton.
14-04-2025 New images added to Didcot, Directors <73, Snape Farm, Retail Snippets and Collectables.
13-04-2025 New comments from Keith Goodby added to Allied Dairies.
12-04-2025 New images added to Wakefield, South Morden > 1980, Transport-Retail, Sheffield, South Morden 50's and 60's, Cricklewood, Mitcham Foods (Tower Creameries), Didcot. New link to Bradford Model Dairy-'Model Milk' memories added to Express Dairy Tales publications section.
10-04-2025 New images added to Farms-Sudbury Park and Personnel & Trade Unions. New sub-section added to FARMS & DAIRYING for Snape Farm (Barham's dairy farm and house)
09-04-2025 New Processing Centres section created for Scottish Farmers, Glasgow. Relevant items from North-Scotland moved to the new section. New images added to Kilmaurs Creamery, Personnel and Trade Unions, College Farm, Farms and Dairying, Eggs, Depots-H, TH Lewis and Ski-Eden Vale.
08-04-2025 New images added to Depots S, and Depots T-V.
06-04-2025 New images added to Wakefield, Chesterfield and North-Scotland. New subsection created in DAIRY COMPANIES THAT BECAME PART OF EXPRESS, for Sloan's Dairies, Glasgow. 2025 Kingsbury Depot pictures added, from Mark Amies.
05-04-2025 New images added to Bollo Lane, Transport-Rail, Depots-H, Shops A-K. New publication added to Express Dairy Tales publications section, covering the wartime bomb that destroyed the Express Dairy restaurant at Highbury Corner in 1944, and killed 26 people with 150 injured.
03-04-2025 New images and captions added to MMB, Depots T-V, R. Bowyer & Sons.
02-04-2025 Revised captions and new images added to Faringdon, Chesterfield, Minsterley Social Events 2, South Morden Royal Visits, Depots T-V, Parades, Honiton and MMB.
March 2025
30-03-2025 New images from Michael Aldread added to Depots B, C-G, H, Retail Snippets, Personnel and Trade Unions, Transport-Retail and Over The Years. Re-ordering of Allied Dairies section by date and subject.
29-03-2025 New sections added-'HISTORY OF EXPRESS DAIRY'-British Empire Exhibition 1924-5, and in 'DAIRY COMPANIES THAT BECAME PART OF EXPRESS'-Allied Dairies, Manchester. New images also added to Didcot, Maidstone, Over the Years, Chesterfield, Crediton, North-Scotland, Nine Elms Sterilised, Hornby & Clarke, Mitcham Foods, Appleby, Ruyton, Whittington, South Ruislip Processing, Horticulture, Lockerbie and Independent Dairies. New pdf added to Documents-Express for the Brent Libraries Express Dairy at the British Empire Exhibition.
25-03-2025 New images and comments added to Horam, Deva Dairies, Transport-HandCarts, Vans and Tankers, Didcot and Ruyton.
24-03-2025 New slides of memories of Chesterfield Dairy added.
22-03-2025 New images added to South Morden-Rail, South Morden-1970's, Over the Years, Containers, Collectables, Management Services and Computing, Bradford.
21-03-2025 New captions and images added to Deva Dairies, Milborne, Staplemead and Depots C-G.
20-03-2025 New video added - The Story of Chesterfield Dairy. New comment added to Depots C-G.
19-03-2025 New images and comments added to Chesterfield, Didcot, Containers and Parades.
18-03-2025 Press cuttings added to Bradford, Bromley, Chesterfield, North-Yorkshire, North-Manchester, Cricklewood, College Farm, Didcot, South Ruislip Processing, South Ruislip Head Office > 1980, Staplemead, Over the Years, Wakefield, Woodgate, Wythenshawe, Levenshulme, Depots-H (Hillingdon) and Tarvin.
17-03-2025 New Processing Centre site added-Chesterfield, Derbyshire. New and re-arranged images added to Directors >74, Ashfield Farms Dairy, North-Yorkshire, North-Derbyshire.
16-03-2025 New subsection added for Academic articles, and relevant links moved from Documents-General Interest. New article added 'The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector' by Peter J. Atkins. Additional text added to Uxbridge shop in Shops -L-Z. New images and comments added to Minsterley >70, Shops A-K, Dairies-Other A-Z, Morden Rail operations, Transport-Maintenance, Transport-Hand Carts and Posters & Adverts.
15-03-2025 New 1993 images from Northern Foods added to Annual Reports, Long Service & Pensions, Directors >74, South Morden Processing, Cricklewood, Ruislip Processing, Crediton, Cuddington, Milborne, Other Ops, Wythenshawe, Minsterley > 70, Product Pictures, Over the Years, Ski and Eden Vale and Transport-General.
13-03-2025 Many new images, from Sam Jones's collection, added to Morden-Rail Operations.
12-03-2025 New images added to College Farm, Posters and Adverts, Shops, Shops A-K, Depots C-G, Depots W-Z, Transport-Horsedrawn, Images & Artwork, Frith Manor Farm, Kilmaurs Creamery, Other Creameries (Brailsford) and Collectables.
11-03-2025 New images added to Transport-Horsedrawn, Transport-Rail, Honiton and Depots W-Z.
06-03-2025 New images added to Ashfield Farm, Depots N-P, Tarvin and Honiton. Two new sub-sections added to DAIRY COMPANIES THAT BECAME PART OF EXPRESS - Wirral Milk Supplies and Deva Dairies.
04-03-2025 New images added to Tarvin, North-Manchester, Ashfield Farm Dairies and Minsterley Social Events 2.
FEBRUARY 2025
27-02-2025 New images added to Dobson's Dairies, Containers, Job's, Ski and Yogurts, Posters and Ads, Collectables and Didcot. South Morden sections amended, with seperate sub-sections for the 1950's and 1960's, and another for the 1970's. New 1970's images added from Sam Jones's collection.
26-02-2025 New images added to Whittington, Robart's Farm, Depots N-P and Transport-Tankers.
25-02-2025 New images added to Woodgate, Didcot and College Farm.
22-02-2025 Over 50 new images from The Roberts Foundation (Job's) added to Depots-H, Job's and Didcot.
20-02-2025 New images added to Cricklewood, Bradford and Horner's Creamery.
16-02-2025 New images added to North-Yorkshire, Sheffield, College Farm, College Farm, Bits and Pieces, and Wythenshawe. New section created in Nerds Corner for Collectables - models, badges, wallets etc.
15-02-2025 New images added to Milk Boys & Girls, Job's, Didcot, Bradford and Churns, Bottles etc. New Processing Section added for Sheffield-Broadfield Road and HO, and this material removed from North-Yorkshire. North-Cheshire images edited to remove non-Cheshire content.
12-02-2025 Images and comments added to Dairymaid Magazine, Posters and Adverts, Shops. New Processing section set up for Bradford (Laisterdyke and Bradford Model Dairy) and material moved from North-Yorkshire into the new section, with new images that have been researched. North -Cheshire also has new images added.
12-02-2025 New images added to Churns, Bottles etc, Awards, Farms & Dairying, Minsterley-Early Days, Shops L-Z and Dobson's Dairies.
11-02-2025 New video added 'Milk Boys and Girls - Some Memories - Watch on YouTube' and link to pdf. New link to document about Express Dairy's goat farm near Dorking, in the 1860's.
10-02-2025 New images added to Dairymaid Magazine, Transport-Retail, Transport-Hand Carts, Shops L-Z and South Morden-Rail Operations.
08-02-2025 New images added to Transport-Artics, Dobson's Dairies, Farms and Dairying, Directors < 1973 and Long Service & Awards.
07-02-2025 New section with extensive new images added for Wythenshawe Dairy, Manchester and this content removed from North-Manchester. New images added to Appleby-Early Days and Levenshulme.
06-02-2025 New Images added to Appleby Early Days, Frith Manor Farm, Depots I-M, Transport-Horsedrawn and Tavistock Place Head Office.
04-02-2025 New images added to Hunt's Dairies, Depots-B, Leyburn Creamery and Long Service & Awards. New PROCESSING section added for Wakefield Dairy, now removed from North-Yorkshire.
03-02-2025 New images added to South Morden < 1979, UHT, Appleby Early Times, Parades.
02-02-2025 New images added to South Morden < 1979. Rail-related items removed from this section and placed in a new section 'Morden Rail Operations'.
JANUARY 2025
28-01-2025 New subsection added to DAIRY COMPANIES THAT BECAME PART OF EXPRESS - Glover's Dairy, Hammersmith. New images added to Didcot Dairy Story, Sanquhar, Hunt's Dairies, Bits and Pieces, Transport-Rigids and Transport-Tankers.
25-01-2025 New images added to North-Yorkshire, Sherborne, Frith Manor Farm, Robarts Hundred Acre Farm and Parades.
23-01-2025 New images added to College Farm, Farms and Dairying, Parades, Seaton Junction, Transport-Horsedrawn, Transport-Rail, Transport-Retail, Exeter, Sanquhar, Tavistock Place and South Morden <1979.
22-01-2025 New document added to Express Dairy Tales Publications section-College Farm Museum.
21-01-2025 New images added to Billingshurst Creamery, South Morden <79 and Retail-London. Shops A-Z split into two sections: A-K and L-Z and miscellaneous.
19-01-2025 New images added to Depots B, N-P, Hornby and Clarke, Bits and Pieces, Lockerbie, College Farm, Product Pictures and Over the Years.
17-01-2025 New images added to A1 Dairies, Depots N-P (Potters Bar), College Farm and South Morden <1979.
16-01-2025 New Milk Processing sub-section added 'Didcot Dairy Story Exhibition, 2024'. New images added to Depots N-P and Lockerbie.
15-01-2025 New images added to Didcot, Kilmaurs, Sanquhar, Transport-Tankers, Depots A, C-G, H, I-M, N-P, W-Z, Retail London <1974.
09-01-2025 'Safe Manual Handling' booklet added to 'Bits and Pieces'. New image added to College Farm.
05-01-2025 Two new editions of 'The Dairymaid' magazine acquired, scanned and edited - November 1934 and January 1935.
04-01-2025 New section added to Nerds Corner- 'The Milky Way' booklet (How to become a star milkman). New images and comments added to Bromley Processing and Transport-Artics. The 1959 and 1995 Dairy Regulations have been added to the Publications-General section. New image uploaded to Jobs Dairy.
02-01-2025 Four new images added to Transport-Artics, from Dave Fane.
01-01-2025 New Processing Centre sub-section added for Levenshulme Dairy, and previous images removed from North-Manchester. Tarvin Dairy also moved into this section. New image added to Transport-Tankers.
2023 and 2024 summaries of updates are archived to pdf files, you can view these in the Documents section, Website Updates.