Milk Collection

Drink More Milk poster
Poster issued by the National Milk Publicity Council showing a pretty, and wholesome looking dairy worker enjoying a glass of fresh milk

Milk for school children, 1955
Before Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher put and end to free school milk for the over sevens, all primary school children would enjoy their daily third pint ration at school

Advert / Horlicks Malted
Horlicks Malted Milk is always up to the Standard - and supposedly this little girl, fortified by Horlick s, never flags?

Milkman and his Float
A milkman taking bottles from the crates on his float to deliver to someones doorstep

Advert for Horlicks malted milk 1916
Woman in World War One workshop, drinking the nourishing food-drink Horlicks Malted Milk. Date: 1916

Advert for Horlicks, the original malted milk drink, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert / Soda Water 1920S
SPARKLETS SODA WATER for use with water, lemonade, wine, milk, etc

Advert / Frys Chocolate
Frys Five Boys chocolate - Desperation, Pacification, Expectation, Acclamation, Realisation - Its Fry s!

Poster, The Vegetabull, a vegetable dish made with dried eggs or household milk is as good as a joint (post-WW2 rationing was still going on at this time). 1947

Milkman delivering milk
Fresh milk is delivered by the milkman, who stands by his milk float. Date: 1975

Advert for Horlicks ration of malted milk tablets 1916
Restoring energy and vitality Horlicks malted milk compressed tablets, supplied in a air tight tin. 1916

Interior of tramshed, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
Interior view of a tramshed at Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, showing various trams with advertising material: Jacobs Cream Crackers, Colmans Mustard, Lifebuoy Soap

Free to Roam. Southbank, Middlesbrough 1970s 1970s

Black and White Milk Bar
A Black and White Milk Bar sporting a monochrome livery and purveying milkshakes and ice creams in various flavours including bootlegger and ovaltine

Making Butter, Armenia
Making butter in Arnebia using a suspended barrel to churn the milk

Advert for Cadburys cup chocolate
Hot Chololate instantly by simply shaking the soft flakes into a cup of boiling hot milk. 1930

Llewellin Churn Works, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A group of employees, mostly women, of the Llewellin Churn Works at North Gate, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Police Public Call Box, London
A police officer using a Police Public Call Box on a London street. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937

The Girl who ordered a glass of milk at the Cafe Royal
Illustration by H. M

Testing a Cows Udders
Testing the udders of dairy cows before they are attached to a mechanical milking machine

Advert / Mackesons Stout
MACKESONs STOUT Milk stout

1940S Housewife Cooking
A housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring

Advert for Horlicks, the original malted milk drink, 1925 Date: 1925

Milk boy with three-wheeled cart & cans
A three-wheeled handcart, used to deliver milk in the East End of London

Milkman Making Delivery
A cheerful milkman puts the requisite number of milk bottles onto the doorstep

James Horlick / Vfair 1909
JAMES HORLICK Malted milk manufacturer Date: 1844 - 1921

The Railway Station, Clitheroe, Lancashire
The Railway Station, Clitheroe, near Whalley, Lancashire, England. Showing the milk dispatch Date: 1900s

Just two words! Nestles Milk 1915
Nestles milk for yourself and baby. Don t - as you value your childs life - experiment with " foods" of unknown composition; the lives of millions of children have been lost in that way

ROSE TEA SET
What could be nicer than waking up to a breakfast tray of dainty china - a Rose tea set - teapot, cups, saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl? Date: 1930s

Farmer leads his cows down a country road
A farmer leads his cows down a country road

St James Park / Cows Milk
Who would imagine that you could milk a cow in the middle of London ?

Advert for Cow & Gate formula milk food 1928
Cow & Gate formula, made of pure milk only

Electrical Magnet appliances 1929
Products from the Harrods catalogue electrical department, including Magnet, irons, kettles, shaving pot, milk sterilizer, coffee percolator, water boiler, toaster, griller and toaster, towel rail

Castle Milk, Lockerbie
Castle Milk, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. The house was one of several in the area used by Barnardos as an evacuation home during the Second World War

Frys Cocoa advertisement by John Hassall
Advert for Frys Cocoa Powder showing two burglars, delighted to discover several jars of Frys cocoa and Frys milk chocolate in a safe. 2nd December 1908

Horse-drawn milk cart with driver. Churn on the cart
The milkman is from Malvern Worcs Link Farm Diary and his name is E Betteridge - both texts visible of the cart. Date: circa 1905

Manchester, England - Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, England - the busy Piccadilly Street and Piccadilly Gardens showing shop fronts, cars, and businesses. circa 1910s

Silybum marianum, milk thistle
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Chardon Marie

Mapleton Hotel, Coventry Street, London
Mapleton Hotel and restaurant, Coventry Street in central London just along from Piccadilly Circus

Poster advertising Norway, showing a pretty milkmaid with a yoke and two buckets. 20th century

Advert / Viking Milk 1900
Viking Milk - a perfect unsweetened milk

Two Persian women rocking a goatskin to churn milk. Date: circa 1900s

Soho, London - 26 Frith Street W1 - Oxford Express Dairy (Welsh Dairy). 1973

Advert, Australian Butter for the Homeland. 1936

College Farm, Finchley, North London -- entrance to Express Dairy Co, Teas and Refreshments. Date: circa 1900s

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

Four milk churns at the side of a country road
Four milk churns sitting on a wooden platform at the side of a country road

Pussys Breakfast by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy bends down to give a kitten a saucer of milk. Date: 1945

Farm Stall in St. Jamess Park, London - New Milkstall
Farm Stall in St. Jamess Park, London - The New Milkstall - " Rus in Urbe" ( the countryside in the city) - latn quote on the card

Silhouette, Enough to Make a Saint Swear
Enough to Make a Saint Swear -- silhouette showing a monk annoyed to see that a cat has knocked over a jug of milk and is lapping it all up

Cowgirls at milk fund rodeo, St. Louis, MO, Doubleday

Lenham, Kent, England
LENHAM, KENT, ENGLAND. Church Square. Brick and weatherboard cottages, including a small shop selling teas and new milk sodas for cyclists

School Milk 1960S
A rather contented looking boy drinks his free school milk straight from the bottle, using a straw

Man in the Kitchen C1905
Letting your husband loose in the kitchen can be very risky; here, a pot boils over, eggshells litter the floor, and the cat laps spilt milk

Mr Libbys Creamed Rice Milk Pudding
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Mr Libbys Creamed Rice Milk Pudding. circa 1950s

Tabby kitten with three pints of milk
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten with three pints of milk. 1950s

Spaniel and hedgehog
Unusual Friends - Spaniel and hedgehog. 1950s

Take fresh milk and plenty of it
Poster from the Empire Marketing Board promoting fresh milk, with a happy and healthy baby brandishing a spoon in a high chair

Milk order tag -- 2 Extra Please
Milk order tag to fit over the neck of an empty bottle - 2 Extra Please, I m not getting enough. circa 1970s

Milk order tag -- 1 Extra Please
Milk order tag to fit over the neck of an empty bottle - 1 Extra Please, I m not getting enough. circa 1970s

Advertisement for The Express Dairy Co Ltd, by appointment to Queen Victoria, with an aerial view of College Farm, Finchley, and a bottle of Humanized Milk (a modified form of cows milk)

Cohens Full Cream Dairy van, Birmingham
Cohens Full Cream Dairy van, a Ford van shaped like a milk churn, Victoria, Birmingham. Date: circa 1920s

Dairy
Filling milk on bottles in the dairy

City of London School
The City of London School, Milk Street, on the Victoria Embankment at Blackfriars. Date: built 1835 - 1883

Milkwoman in Cart Photo
A milkwoman poses for the photographer before setting out on her rounds in a two- wheeled horse-drawn cart holding two churns from which she will ladle out milk

MILK BELOW
In Londons Cavendish Square the milk-woman cries Milk below ! to the servants in the basements of the houses

Siamese Cat Gets Cream
A spoilt Siamese kitten sits in its wicker basket and laps up the cream from the top of a milk bottle!

Loading Churns at Farm
Loading milk churns onto a horse-drawn milk cart at a dairy farm : the cart will go from house to house, filling cans or jugs from the churns

Viking Milk Advert
Viking milk

Comic postcard, Cat hit by wartime conditions, milk up in price and prohibition of lights at night - The end in sight! Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Little boy and crying baby - Who have I to thank for this, the doctor, stork, or gooseberry bush. Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Man kept awake by crying baby - Called up! A Derby Scheme armband on his jacket shows that he is signed up and ready for active service. Date: circa 1915

Advert for Benger's Infant Food 1921
Advertisement for Benger's dried milk for infants, invalids and aged. Date: 1921

M was a merry milk-maid, who one morning was sadly dismayed; for a mischievous mouse, that Puss found in the house, was the cause of a slump in her trade. Date: 1908

Advertisement for Lemco, highly concentrated and unseasoned prime lean beef served with hot milk. Date: 1922

Labour Saving by Heath Robinson. No. 2 - The Morning Starter

Two young ladies enjoying a cup of tea and a read of The Field magazine and having Happy Thoughts no doubt... Date: circa 1910s

Laitiere, Milk Woman - Costume of the Lower Orders of Paris by Thomas Lord Busby c. 1820 Date: circa 1820

Mew for Milk, Louis Wain Cats - Comical Doings published Ernest Nister c. 1910. Date: circa 1910

Domesticated British horned cattle breeds. Common ox, Bos taurus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Argali, Ovis ammon
Argali, wild sheep or mountain sheep, Ovis ammon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by White from George Shaw's General Zoology: Mammalia, Thomas Davison, London, 1801

Bezoar, cashmere, argali and Theban goats
Bezoar, Capra hircus subsp. aegagrus, Hircus aegagrus a, cashmere goat, Capra hircus laniger b, argali, Ovis ammon, Caprovis argali c, and Theban goat, Hircus thebaicus d

Cattle, muskox and zebu
Bull and dairy cow, Bos taurus, muskox, Ovibos moschatus, and zebu, Bos indicus

Georgian milkmaid serving cups of milk to a chimney sweep
Georgian milkmaid serving cups of milk to a sooty chimney sweep and his apprentice boy on a street corner in Oxford. In the background, a new rector Doctor Broadbase rides past a blacksmith

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