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Does any one still have a milkman ?
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 Percy of Peckham  Eton Mess 16 Oct 15 10.58am |
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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 7.36am
There used to be lots of doorstep callers including the milkman, coalman and dustman who would come up your back passage to collect your bin!!!! However, as a kid my favourite caller had to be the baker. He'd drop off the regular bread order and fetch a big basket to the front door. There would be a cover on top and when pulled back would reveal a variety of cakes. Always difficult to choose one but he'd never rush you into a decision. Wednesdays and Saturdays were traditionally cake days in our house.
I loved watching him.... he would sweep the gutters then clean out the drains. When I was about 5 years old I wanted to do his job when I grew up! There was a big brown bedford that used to come around. It was an unfortunate shade of brown but all the kids would follow it from drain to drain.
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| Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 11.01am | |
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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 10.58am
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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 7.36am
There used to be lots of doorstep callers including the milkman, coalman and dustman who would come up your back passage to collect your bin!!!! However, as a kid my favourite caller had to be the baker. He'd drop off the regular bread order and fetch a big basket to the front door. There would be a cover on top and when pulled back would reveal a variety of cakes. Always difficult to choose one but he'd never rush you into a decision. Wednesdays and Saturdays were traditionally cake days in our house.
I loved watching him.... he would sweep the gutters then clean out the drains. When I was about 5 years old I wanted to do his job when I grew up! There was a big brown bedford that used to come around. It was an unfortunate shade of brown but all the kids would follow it from drain to drain.
He was my hero back then.
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| Percy of Peckham Eton Mess 16 Oct 15 11.12am |
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That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.
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| Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 11.21am | |
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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 11.12am
That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.
Non Stop football all day on the Green which was only interrupted by 2 people... the drain man and the ice cream man!
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johnfirewall  16 Oct 15 12.16pm |
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My mum had the fish van round. Reckoned they were Geordies who'd driven down all the way down with the morning's catch.
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| milesy potton 16 Oct 15 12.21pm |
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Yes I still have a milkman. It is a little bit more expensive but it is nice to have the bottles on the doorstep in the morning and better than drinking from plastic.
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| Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 12.23pm | |
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Quote milesy at 16 Oct 2015 12.21pm
Yes I still have a milkman. It is a little bit more expensive but it is nice to have the bottles on the doorstep in the morning and better than drinking from plastic.
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| Superfly The sun always shines in Catford 16 Oct 15 12.30pm |
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Quote dingley at 15 Oct 2015 7.11pm
I remmber the corona .fizzy drinks being deliverd.my best was cherry ade
I helped out a milky on his round once and it was easily the hardest days work of my life. About 2/3rds through the round, he stopped off at an old dears for a cuppa and I seriously contemplated legging it home unpaid. He came looking for me the following week and I hid behind a hedge. He gave me a fiver though which is what I got for a weeks paper round. I blew it all on Daley Thompson's Decathlon (ZX Spectrum). Fuk I'm old
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And I remember spending some Saturday mornings sitting on my front doorstep for hours waiting for him to turn up.
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Quote jason7 at 16 Oct 2015 10.55am
This is my point Gerry,i too want a milkman but have found that at 81p as opposed to tesco 45p a pint i cannot.And as a side point why the huge gap between prices.My only assumption,maybe because not many support them any more us that do are paying a premium. Quote gerry theagle at 16 Oct 2015 10.37am
Still get our milk delivered in glassbottles here in village south of Newbury,we go to supermarkets for most other things but try to help keep the tradition of the Milkman going.
Had the chimney done once since we moved in and that was 3 years ago so needs doing I guess
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| Percy of Peckham Eton Mess 16 Oct 15 2.28pm |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 16 Oct 2015 11.21am
Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 11.12am
That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.
Non Stop football all day on the Green which was only interrupted by 2 people... the drain man and the ice cream man! Probably the same bunch of urchins! Must have been about 20 of us - went to Camden Road Junior School, spent our days in Wrythe Rec. We used to play football at the narrow end of the Rec past the swings where the trees provided natural goal posts. We all lived in Brookfield or Laburnum Avenues or in Mead Crescent.
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| Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 2.35pm | |
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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 2.28pm
Quote Hoof Hearted at 16 Oct 2015 11.21am
Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 11.12am
That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.
Non Stop football all day on the Green which was only interrupted by 2 people... the drain man and the ice cream man! Probably the same bunch of urchins! Must have been about 20 of us - went to Camden Road Junior School, spent our days in Wrythe Rec. We used to play football at the narrow end of the Rec past the swings where the trees provided natural goal posts. We all lived in Brookfield or Laburnum Avenues or in Mead Crescent.
I went to Camden Rd Junior too from 1960 to 1965. Mr Blofield was the headmaster. Our little gang used to watch Carshalton Athletic before we upgraded to Palace and we called ourselves "The Allotments End". Happy Days!
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| Percy of Peckham Eton Mess 16 Oct 15 10.25pm |
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Mr Blofield was indeed the headmaster ...I can recall a Miss Tate, Mr Snelgrove, Mr Brown and Miss Booker. You were a year ahead of me because I started secondary school in September 1966. Always had a crush on a girl in the year above (The older woman!) Went over to watch the Robins a few times and didn't Camden Road hold their annual School Sports Days there? I also remember going over to watch Carshalton Athletic host Crystal Palace in a game to launch their new floodlights. It must have been the very first time I actually saw Palace. (Apparently, that was in 1967). Edited by Percy of Peckham (16 Oct 2015 11.12pm)
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