I do know that you are not the kind to bottle out. But seriously, I remember when milk was delivered cow udder warm, poured out from giant milk 'jugs' in to our own smaller metal jugs. No fancy cartons then, even the ring card topped glass bottle was a culture shock. Milk was better then.
Treeve, my mother worked for Friggens' Dairy delivering milk from leaving school in 1943 until their son (? or someone else) was demobbed and took the job back. She used to pull a churn up and down the streets of the battlefield and measure out the milk into the customers' jugs or cans. I suppose that would have been before your time but perhaps things continued in that tradition for a few years longer.
Friggens was our dairyman. Came around with a horse and trap, milk was in a large can, with a pouring lip. My mother had two jugs, one metal, with a lifting lid, and another of glass, there was a net mesh cover, with beads sewn into the edge to keep the top free of dust and flies. The milk was kept on a thick marble slab. Make your own cream, boil it up on the stove, and skim off the crust for an ansom thunder and lightning on home made rolls. Home made jam too, fruit from the garden. What a world. It was 1946 when the wide bottle with waxedcard lids came along, I thnk. Drink it straight down, proper job.
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