Do Milkmen still exist?

[Medro]

Was having a conversation there with a wee girl I work with and she thought it was hilarious that we got fruit & veg delivered to our door and that we used to have a butcher do the same.

Round our way we have the fruit & veg man, the lemonade man, used to have the video man and the butcher drive round in their vans to deliver. I remember as a kid going out early in the morning and swiping the milk and pure orange, or putting them all on peoples doorsteps. But do they still have milkmen?

Seems like another profession killed off by those superstores!

 

[Dave the Rave]

Do milkmen still exist?

I hope so, I'm still looking for my daddy

 

[-jordan-]

i see them around once in a blue moon..but hardly at all. i still remember having to press the silver top foil in first before peeling it back just incase a cat had decided to piss on it

 

[User Deleted]

yes my burd talks to ours quite frequently and always invites him in but its nothin theyre just friends

 

[Ninja Skrtel]

I remember all the things you mention when I was little, the video man was awesome!

We have a local milkman but we don't use him and it's really rare I see him trundling around in his battery powered rollerskate.

 

[Steevee]

We used to have a few milk men in my house when i was growing up. saying that also mr whippy was there alot.

THink my mum was a whore

 

[gas]

The number of milkman doing the rounds started declining after Benny Hill passed away.

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[Archers Road]

There's an old boy still plies his trade arond Turnpike Lane in North London, in a knackered looking milkfloat. I think he's a one man band, and I've no idea where the dairy is. I think Unigate sold all their rounds off as franchises 20 odd year ago.

 

[thefanwithnoname]

they still exist, there was a campaign locally to bring back the milkman.

i have tried to use the milkman at 2 different addresses, but they only do 2/3 day weeks

having kids still was having to go out and buy milk, easier to buy the 6 pinters

 

[gotcoffee]

The number of milkman doing the rounds started declining after Benny Hill passed away.

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He was fast ...

 

[Dave the Rave]

Theres actually still a lemonade man round our way... he still has the same lorry since I was about 5

I remember stealing the Cloudy Lime and Aniseed... yum

 

[Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction]

Was having a conversation there with a wee girl I work with and she thought it was hilarious that we got fruit & veg delivered to our door and that we used to have a butcher do the same.

Round our way we have the fruit & veg man, the lemonade man, used to have the video man and the butcher drive round in their vans to deliver. I remember as a kid going out early in the morning and swiping the milk and pure orange, or putting them all on peoples doorsteps. But do they still have milkmen?

Seems like another profession killed off by those superstores!

Is that the Maine man. Those fizzy drinks are fantastic.

Used to also have a bread van deliver door to door and he would also be selling thar pink bubblegum in the blue wrapper. Ah memories

 

[happy hammer]

yep one comes down my road every day

 

[Archers Road]

yep one comes down my road every day

Yeah, but they still have whelk stalls and bombsites in East London. And chimney sweeps.

 

[Dave the Rave]

Yeah, but they still have whelk stalls and bombsites in East London. And chimney sweeps.

Dancing Chimney Sweeps

 

[happy hammer]

there is an actual chimney sweep man round the corner, it says on the side of his van that he does weddings?

 

[Medro]

Is that the Maine man. Those fizzy drinks are fantastic.

Used to also have a bread van deliver door to door and he would also be selling thar pink bubblegum in the blue wrapper. Ah memories

Yeah the Maine man. Ice cream soda, beaut! I remember when I was kid lumping ice cream into lemonade trying to make my own. Not quite the same

 

[Archers Road]

Is it dick van dyke?

 

[Dave the Rave]

Yeah the Maine man. Ice cream soda, beaut! I remember when I was kid lumping ice cream into lemonade trying to make my own. Not quite the same

Smokies

 

[Whole-lot-of-Holt_HtH]

Sainsburys milk tastes nicer.