Archive Photo : Co-op Milk Delivery

Electric milkfloat about to make daily doorstep deliveries; setting out from Co-operative Dairy on Park Drive.

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Anonymous said...

As indicated this photograph is of the former Dairy which belonged to the Hucknall Co-operative Society. Mr.G.A.Wraith who had previously worked in the main offices of the HTIPS in the Market Place was the Chief Clerk at the Dairy and the Manager was Mr.Ray Beeson who later moved to Oldham in Lancashire. When doorstep deliveries became less and less, the Dairy was closed and subsequently demolished. It is now the site of new housing. One of their employees was Alec Dennis who many Hucknall people will know for his Boys Brigade associations.

13 April 2010 at 16:41
Anonymous said...

The dairy was situated where the Hazel Grove development is now, slightly to the East of the railway bridge on Park Drive (adjacent to Tichfield Park). There were railway sidings adjacent to the dairy but I'm not sure if it was ever rail-served as these sidings connected to Hucknall No. 1 colliery via a branch line which ran towards the Shortwood Estate. A shame to see local milk services gone and it seems crazy under the current climate to see the end of electric milk floats and their being replaced with diesel vechicles

12 November 2010 at 01:28

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