Thanks Phil, yes, we'll give that some thought. Do you happen to recall where you sourced this particular photo from? Thanks
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Wacaden Dairy Wathes Cattell & Gurden Dairy
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kdm
New Member
Hi, all. My first post. I'm here because I just dug this beggar up in my garden in Redditch, and I'd never heard of them. Not really surprising, if they stopped trading about 20 years before I was born!
This one has a chip in the lip and I'm a bit annoyed about it, because I think I put it there with my shovel.
Coincidentally, I notice the original poster had lived on Birchfield Road. I'm just of Birchfield Road, but a different one, some 17 miles South of you!
This one has a chip in the lip and I'm a bit annoyed about it, because I think I put it there with my shovel.
Coincidentally, I notice the original poster had lived on Birchfield Road. I'm just of Birchfield Road, but a different one, some 17 miles South of you!
DavidGrain
master brummie
Hi and welcome to the forum. An intersting bottle. There are collectors of glass bottles but I have no idea what this one might be worth.
I have come across this in a Google search
Milk Bottle News: Features: A Passion For Milk Bottles
Milk Bottle News is the UK newsletter for milk bottle and dairyana collectors everywhere
www.milkbottlenews.org.uk
kdm
New Member
Hehe. I'm not that bothered about value. It's got its value to me now!
(I've seen a good one go for £14 on eBay!)
Why could I not dig up a classic car or a full 50 year old whisky barrel?
G G Jean
Brummy Wench.
Hi Annekh and welcome. I am sure there will be someone on the forum who remembers your dad. I remember a Carol Dunn from school.
hi annekh an welcome...where abouts in birmingham did your dad live as i would think there was more than 1 wacaden dairy...hope you enjoy the forum
lyn
Welcome annekh. I’ve moved your post to this specific thread about Wacaden, There may be earlier posts of interest. Post #16 gives a list of the depots in 1940. Viv.
He lived on doorman street
Dollman street
joe 90
master brummie
Hi Annekh did he work at Kingstanding branch as when l worked there. there was an Eric working as as a checker l don't know his surname;
it might have been him but he went on to have a son Andrew and daughter Pamela
Hello and happy new year to everyone....I don't post hear very often but the thread is fascinating i just found out from the 1921 census that my great great grandad worked at Wacaden Dairy Wathes Cattell and Gurden Dairy in grange rd small heath it seems that my connection to the world of dairy's and milk goes back a lot longer and some of my family were milk hawkers in earlier census records.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
paul stacey
master brummie
as a boy knew the Raven well, my school was across the road, like a lot of school boys of the day we worked a scam, on returned pop bottles, one of us would watch "cagey", and another would get over the wall and nick about 3, bottles from the stack, then go into the "Offy", to get a few pence on the returns, they caught on though a marked the returned bottles and caught us all, we got a good slippering from "Mother" Mary Martina, our head mistress!!
Barbara Tarbuck
proper brummie kid
Hello. My father worked at the kingstanding branch many many years ago. This is my first time on the forum so will sort out the photos I have and see if I can put them on the site as my IT skills are limited. My father went on to open Crows nest Dairies in Aldridge Rd (Bob Gillett)
hi and welcome barbara...it would be great if you could add any photos to this thread....thanks
lyn
Barbara Tarbuck
proper brummie kid
As a new person I am pleased that you replied I will sort the pictures/horse and carts and much much more. Probably from the 1930's
thats great babara as it is our memories and photographs that help to keep this forum running....if you have any problems posting them just get back to me
lyn
does anyone have any pictures of wacaden dairy or details of the staff census list??? Or how I can get hold of one .
the dairy was in centre like Aston area great Brook street area in brum , my relative worked there in the late 40s with her sisters she was called June harrison born 1929 , so she would have been late teens then , her sisters Milly and Margret were twins also worked there, ring any bells with anyone who remembers her
the dairy was in centre like Aston area great Brook street area in brum , my relative worked there in the late 40s with her sisters she was called June harrison born 1929 , so she would have been late teens then , her sisters Milly and Margret were twins also worked there, ring any bells with anyone who remembers her
Does it say in the book who the people are in the photo, the man in the middle looks like a sailor ?
Malc Toy
The Baggie Man
When I was a young lad in the 1950’s living on the Wake Green Road, Moseley, I had a Saturday job helping on a Wacaden milk round from a branch located in Woodbridge Road, Moseley.
At the time they used horse drawn carts and I well remember a lovely black horse called ‘Dobbin’ but whilst I was there, Wacaden’s switched to three wheel battery operated carts so the demise of ‘Dobbin’ was nigh.
At the time they used horse drawn carts and I well remember a lovely black horse called ‘Dobbin’ but whilst I was there, Wacaden’s switched to three wheel battery operated carts so the demise of ‘Dobbin’ was nigh.