Changes (most recent at the top)
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.