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Milk
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Richard Dye
master brummie
Thats still almost a hundred years!
Speedy23
master brummie
One forgets the passage of time....you are correct!
NoddKD
master brummie
Are Tommy cookers still available. Haven't seen/used one since I left the Royal Marines.they will come in handy when we are out in the field to have brew up on me tommy cooker i had forgot about them.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
yer
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Birmingham Christmas of the past
Father Christmas on November 5th.? I wonder if he would make a good Guy for the bonfire. Next thing you know they`ll be selling Easter eggs in January !
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NoddKD
master brummie
Thanks for that.yer
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Birmingham Christmas of the past
Father Christmas on November 5th.? I wonder if he would make a good Guy for the bonfire. Next thing you know they`ll be selling Easter eggs in January !
However that is not the Tommy cooker that I knew.
The military one was a flat metal box affair containing eight hexamine blocks.
Very efficient at warming rations and boiling water but left a thick coat of black tarry stuff on the mess tin.
Happy days.
NoddKD the messy cook.
NoddKD
master brummie
Thanks for the speedy response, as always BHF on the ball.
That's similar but near enough to the military version.
chris wood
WOODY
THINK THIS WAS 1953 FOR QWEENS CORANATION
Not a great image, but this is the sort of milk delivery I remember in the 1950s. The cart was very tall and green, with open sides all around. It was much taller that later delivery vehicles, so probably supplied a lot more homes in one delivery.
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Source: British Newspaper Archive
We always had one of these as we only ever had sterra in our house.
We always had sterilised milk in our family but school milk was pasteurised. I have one of my family pics I put elsewhere on the forum. It was taken in Cavendale Ave and looking at the bottle shapes he seems to have a mix of sterilised and pasteurised milk on board.
how on earth did the milkman manage to pull this along...i cant ever remember seeing one like this
lyn
Radiorails
master brummie
The cart was motorized hence the registration plate.
Radiorails
master brummie
The cart was motorized hence the registration plate.
Some sterra bottles with the named supplier. Moving left to right: Birmingham Co-op, TASCO and Midland Counties. These were the bottles I remember, long and slender with a silver, metal cap, like a beer bottle cap (bird proof!)
Apparently the sterra bottles used to have some sort of cork bottle top.. This staged 1935 advert (a set, obviously built in a studio) was for Midland Counties Dairy. The milkman has the MCD logo on his collar and the taller sterra bottles in the holder has a cork cap. I vaguely remember.a metal covered cork bottle top, not for milk but some other product - would that be the sort of thing ? Can't imagine a purely cork stopper would have been hygienic.
My recollections are they had a metal “Crown” stopper which had a cork liner or gasket on the underside.
As kids we would pop the used crown cork on the fire, where after a few minutes it would pop up like a rising cake.
Richard Dye
master brummie
That’s what they were called, crown tops!
Glad you remember them Mort.
I've just remembered, the ones I've seen, theyre on Belgian beer bottles. Must provide a good seal to keep the gas in.
I've just remembered, the ones I've seen, theyre on Belgian beer bottles. Must provide a good seal to keep the gas in.
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Gone are the small scale milk urns from farms. Milk on its way via one of these Birmingham - based transporters.
My recollections are they had a metal “Crown” stopper which had a cork liner or gasket on the underside.
As kids we would pop the used crown cork on the fire, where after a few minutes it would pop up like a rising cake.
My recollections are they had a metal “Crown” stopper which had a cork liner or gasket on the underside.
As kids we would pop the used crown cork on the fire, where after a few minutes it would pop up like a rising cake.
Sterilised milk bottkes also, at one time, had a ceramic stopper on a spring. This article about control of milk prices, shows how popular sterra was in Birmingham. We didn't have a fridge until the 1970s, so that might partly explain why we drank sterra.
And we had Carnation Milk. We used it as cream on fruit. But we also used it on porridge, poured around the edge, waited for the porridge to set and ........ delicious ! Note it was 'From contented cows.' How did they know that ?!
Sources: British Newspaper Archive
And we had Carnation Milk. We used it as cream on fruit. But we also used it on porridge, poured around the edge, waited for the porridge to set and ........ delicious ! Note it was 'From contented cows.' How did they know that ?!
Sources: British Newspaper Archive
Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
A friend of ours, back in the UK, used to make a Carnation sandwich. Spread it on like runny butter, and didn't add anything else
. We used it, like you, on fruit, but on a sandwich !I hated sterra milk, came in a bottle with a long neck if I remember. Over here, long life milk is very common and widely used. I suppose it is a bit like sterra, but I can use it in coffee OK. But not on cereal.
Andrew.
Radiorails
master brummie
There are two abominations as far as type of milk is concerned
The first is the 'long life' milk - we call it cardboard milk as it is contained in a cardboard packet. we tried it once, even the cat would not drink it.
The second is sterilized milk. Actually in the resorts of Devon and Cornwall it is advertised in some places as 'Birmingham milk'.
The first is the 'long life' milk - we call it cardboard milk as it is contained in a cardboard packet. we tried it once, even the cat would not drink it.
The second is sterilized milk. Actually in the resorts of Devon and Cornwall it is advertised in some places as 'Birmingham milk'.