We had to put the empty bottles back on the door step so they could be taken and recycled the next day. But as per my mum, they had to be spotlessly clean, otherwise "What will the neighbours say?"
We still do this in my village in Sussex once a week. Apart from the uniform and milk float it’s nice to know it hasn’t changed really. They have raw milk too!
Hi Guys, This is a classic case of the old saying "if it isn't broken DON'T fix it" back in the day in the UK all our dairy was delivered by the milk man daily, it was always fresh from local farms in glass recycled bottles and delivered on electric vehicles... I mean, really and employed lots of people.
There's a guy down the road that still works as a milkman, he drives a van but we still get fresh milk and eggs from a local farm here in Wales which is a bit of nostalgia worth holding onto
As a 17 year old I delivered milk for a small independent dairy. Bulk deliveries were in churns. I used to handle two at a time by spinning them on their rims.
We ADORED Dick Emery. My dad was a milkman. I was a milk girl, at the dairy 4am. Helped my milky load the milk float, restocked the cool box with OJ, butter, eggs and bacon. Did it for almost a year. Snow (nightmare) and summer. My dad saved several old ladies who had fallen over and down their stairs. He was also robbed at knifepoint, just the once. This was 1974 I was doing mine and dad was a year later so didn't work for him. It was a good time. It was. Ask anyone from then. Problems, yes but that's life wherever you are. Being English, BRITISH, back then, made us proud. most people loved this country. Really, it's night and day compared with now. Most of us owned very little but we were happier than now.And we had a community and strong family connections. People stayed put for years, you knew people for years. Looking at it now makes me weep. What can I say? Do more Dick, obviously. Also the absolute comedy genius of Stanley Baxter. Anyone will tell you. Please find him, you won't be sorry.
Dawn, I'm 62, moved away from the UK in 2007 because I saw it plummeting to the depths. So sad eh. The 70's and early 80's were the best of it for me, and for many others I feel. When I see the news from back home now (my Mum is still around), it makes me so sad. The country is broken...absolutely wrecked from top to bottom. They tell me that comedy such as this would not even be allowed nowadays. Why I ask? The TV shows are all violence and homosexual sex, but, show "Love thy neighbour" or "Dick Emery", Benny Hill etc, and people would have a meltdown. What happened to society huh.... it's sick. All the best.
...Obviously do more Dick... ..well, my oh my, .. a lil tongue in cheeks there perhaps too; ..if it's consentua, itl helps keep the /your inner youthful self feeling alive, happy, & tingly good!
I live in Kent, UK and we still have a milkman who delivers twice a week from the local dairy. He provides everything from milk, oat milk, cream, yoghurt, creme fraiche, cheese, butter, eggs, water, orange juice and apple juice as well as fresh vegetables from local farms when in season. An invaluable service to the community and I hope we never lose it. 😄 They even still provide the classic 'Gold Top' which is milk from Jersey cows with 5% cream!!! Simply delicious!!
Having your milk delivered happened everyday (except Sundays) rain, shine, snow, and you'd pay them in cash weekly. I remember as a 3/4-yr old being allowed to go out with our local milkman once to deliver the milk on his milk float. We travelled all the way to the depot, then he dropped me off home - it was a great adventure. That was the level of trust people had in their local milkmen and postmen back in the day, they were an integral part of the community.
I was one for about a year, WORST job I have ever had, and when I was doing it, we worked 7 days a week. It was whilst I was doing rounds (mostly Country rounds) that they stopped working Sundays (around 1975 / 76)
@@grabtharshammerBest job i ever had . 20 years. 7 days a week till the mid eighties when the accountants took over controlling companies. Took them less than 10 years to destroy the whole industry. Thatchers Snatchers.
Yep back in the 60s, I also used to help out the milkman during his rounds in the area lived in. He'd pick me up on route then drop me off before leaving to deliver in the next area. To an 8 year old it was fun.
I remember when the milkman used to come round. Bottles clanking in the early hours, taking the empties back. Coming round to collect his money. You have to remember, very few houses would have had a refrigerator until the 60’s or 70’s. Milk would spoil in a day or two in summer, even when kept in a larder on a marble block. You would order how many pints you used a day or put a note in the top of an empty and they would turn up fresh in the morning. Died off when supermarkets started undercutting the milk price by several pence a pint.
The milk man was very popular in the 60's and 70's in the UK. The delivery vehicles were electric running on huge batteries linked in series under the bed at the back where the crates were carried. They had a top speed of around 35 miles per hour and a range of about 50 miles. You ordered and got daily deliveries then paid weekly leaving the empty bottles out for collection when fresh milk was delivered next day. They often sold and delivered eggs too. The blonde actress who pulled money out of her bra is called Wendy Richard she did many sketches like this in comedy shows and played roles in comedy series. Most famous Are You Being Served set in a department store where she and an older actress Molly Sugden worked in the ladies lingerie department. For many years she played a role in a long running soap opera about life in the East End of London called (predictably) East Enders. She passed away a couple of years ago.
When I was a lad back in 1950's the milkman and the bakers were using horse and carts to deliver door to door, but they started fazing them in favour of electric milk floats. Also the first woman at the door to the milkman was Wendy Richards and was on a record with Mike Sarne singing a song called Come Outside.
A bit of nostalgia; I remember when the baker came twice a week with his very aromatic wares in a wicker basket, the butcher came round once a week and parked for 5-10 minutes at the corner, the mobile shop too but different corners, the window cleaner came every once in a while and the milkman came every day but Sunday :)
I remember as a very young lad in the 70's the odd horse and cart, the old rag and bone man looking for second hand or broken stuff on his cart blowing his horn. Also back then a lot of communities had their own local dairy so a lot of what the milkman had was really really fresh.
At my old place - Suffolk, East Anglia - the garden still had the remains underground of an ice vault used to store perishables. The house was built C 1840.
Great Choice - I remember these deliveries when I was a kid in London: we also had a free carton of milk at school to prevent “rickets” - vitamin deficiency. Also, everybody smoked everywhere!
I was a milk boy back in the late 60s early 70s ….everyone knew old Harry the milkman in Bedfont Middlesex next to Heathrow airport I had a great time and at Christmas my tips were more than my dad earned in a week …old Harry died a week after retiring…he was fit but I think being the milkman loved by all was his life ..sad …good on ya Harry R,I,P THE CLIP YOU SHOWED WAS FROM AROUND 72/73 I think
The thing is about the milkman that he was everything that people say we need now. Electric vehicles and glass bottles that were recycled daily. You used to get your milk and leave your empties outside for him to collect so they could be taken and used again. You used to pay the milkman weekly in cash.
My neighbours still have a milkman, its amazing what they carry. My Husbands Aunt, had a farm, and he would go with his uncle to deliver milk on a horse and cart ,straight from the cows.
Milkmen delivered every day except Sunday and you paid weekly and it was also a good source of income for teenagers who used to get a job earning pocket money helping the milkman and another popular job for the youngsters was delivering newspapers for the local paper shops
I did both of those. 12/13 doing the milk then newspaper delivery. Aged 15 I worked my entire 6 week summer holiday making tea, washing up etc for posh companies in the City of London. My family was hardworking but also not a lot of spending money left over. My elder brother also went on the milk and remember! We had to go to school after. Deliveries mostly done well before 9am when school started.
I am old enough to remember the milk man, bread man and the egg man. The milk bottles were washed by my Mum and ready for swapping to full ones. These were not left on the stoop, but in a milk box built in the wall beside the door so milk, butter, cream or cheese would not freeze in winter. These bottles were not recycled, they were washed, sterilized and refilled. The bread man always knocked as would the egg man. Back then, you could leave money and a note for anything extra and no one would touch it. If you were short a bit, the milk man would just write it on your note. Oddly enough, I am the "milk man's son"! The same with my siblings as he was married to my Mum! Cheers and thanks for the hilarious reminder of real comedy from Alberta, Canada.
See what happened when the men left the 'little woman' home alone all day! 😂😂😂 it's still possible to get your milk delivered daily - and the milk, eggs, etc are fresh as they always were!
Wendy Richards who has been mentioned several times in the comments was also a regular in a sitcom called 'Are you being served?' which was set in a department store, and I believe is shown on PBS in America.
I can remember milk, eggs, butter and cream being delivered. Every house that used the service had an insulated galvanized box with a hinged lid. You left a note as to what you wanted. The milkman would leave your purchase and the bill that you would pay by leaving a check or cash for the previous order.
In the late 90s when i was about 15 I saved for my first PC by doing milk delivery. It was me and a friend and the driver who paid us. We were picked up about 4:30am and we'd jump on and off the van for a couple of hours 4 mornings a week. Sometimes being dropped off at a street with a full crate and having several customers to deliver to. I remember jumping off the van in winter when it was moving and falling right on my bum 😂 I was ridiculously fit during that time because of all the running but it took a heavy toll on my school work, I'd fall asleep in Maths class.
Going back to the days of milk delivery reminds me we also had a German guy who stayed in England after the war and did deliveries of cakes, sweets, breakfast cereals etc out the back of his van, came twice a week, those were the days of water fights and hide & seek out in the street during school holidays.....so different to today!
FYI - WW2 UK rations per person, per week 4 ounces bacon or ham, 8 ounces of other meat, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of cheese, 4 ounces of margarine, 4 ounces of cooking fat, 3 pints of milk, 8 ounces of sugar, 2 ounces of tea and 1 egg. Clothes and petrol was rationed. My Mother used to use beetroot juice to stain her lips as there wasn't any
My late dad and one of my brothers used to be milkmen. Don’t know if they got up to any naughty business though 😂. I remember one Christmas Eve when the milkmen from my brother’s depot were allowed to deliver late at night, instead of delivering early on Christmas morning, and all his brothers, (there are 6 boys in the family) went out to help him get it done as quickly as possible. Being able to get milk from so many different outlets now has reduced the amount of milk being delivered to the door, plus if you’re at work when the milk is delivered, it sits on the doorstep until you get home - ok in the coldest months but not so good in the warmer months.
I had a milkman for many years (No, No stop it ) He was an avid golfer on his days off. He told me that even in a snow blizzard, he'd be out on the golf course.
Love your program from the UK just two points on the milkman sketch number 1/60 years ago. They were more electrical vehicles/milk floats in the UK then the rest of the world. Point number two there were no preservatives in those days so you had to have all your fresh food, on an almost daily basis glad you liked it
From the various reactions I've seen, you two obviously relish this style of older Brit comedy. Perhaps one day you could take a look at "The Plank". The 1967 original version is better than the remake. However the remake is shorter. Both are readily available on YT. Both have a cast of the best comedians of that time. Especially the two "heroes" played by Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper. -- Even if it is just private viewing, you'll love it!
My grandfather was a Milkman back in the 1920's & he had a horse & cart. Fast forward to the 1960's & we used to have milk delivered just like this by a milkman who drove an Express Dairy electric "Milk Float". We have recently switched to having our Milk delivered to our house in glass bottles instead of buying it in plastic containers from the supermarket. Not sure if our milkman uses an electric van though because he delivers our milk at 4am 3 days a week & we've never seen him!
I am from the UK and grew up in that time. The milkman would turn up at 6am. That is the 70's I also came from city and everyone knew each other in my area. I love it I was allowed to grow up slowly
I was a milk boy as a kid loved it , up early do your round then off to school and get payed by the milkman at the end of the week to spend at the weekend . Learning about work and money at an early age
The milkman delivered just about everything and between the 1950s & 1980s the payments in kind were quite common place. Mike was delivered on a daily basis bread eggs bacon even chocolate was delivered on weekly basis. There was also a growsers van that would come around on weekly basis
We had the same system in Ireland. Winters were much colder back in the '50s and 60s and I remember often coming out on a winter' s morning finding the top of the milk frozen with the cap askew! Also, the milk wasn't homigenised like now so the cream rose to the top.
The gag with the "nothing today thank you" neighbour, at that time it was normal to refuse a regular delivery or ask for extra. You'd put out your empties for (recycling) collection with a note for the following morning. That doorstep bottle carrier had a pointer you could move, "X pints today please." I can't read the sign either but it's probably "and more stuff." She's put it outside her neighbours, the milkman has delivered, then she removes the evidence so the neighbour is on the hook for payment. My family was a long line of dairy farmers. I have old photos of them delivering milk from a horse-drawn cart (a 'dray'). You didn't get bottles in their day, you came out to meet them with your own jug and milk was ladled out into it from a big metal milk churn ("milk can" in the US I believe).
When I was a child, in the 60’s, you could deliver daily newspapers to earn pocket money. You could also help the milkman, like you’ve just seen, deliver the milk, for ‘a few bob’ (in our pre decimal currency, about 5 to 10 pence depending how generous the milkman felt) Usually you would end up doing all his leg work and he could finish his round quicker. A lot of them had a second job after their early morning round. It was more common for the wives to be at home in those days!
I love these old British shows. 😂 I think you've done Benny Hill, Dick Emery and the Two Ronnies. That leaves you with Morecambe and Wise. My two favourite M&W sketches are the Grieg Piano Concerto with Andre Previn and the Breakfast Sketch.
When I was first married (1970) we lived next to hill, and the "Bottle Lorries" used to come down in the early hours on route to the Dairy, as they applied the brakes, all the empty bottles would rattle...loudly
Use to go out with a milkman at 5 in the morning before school. (14years old). didnt see any ladies in baby dolls though. maybe later when he collected his money. 😂
As a young kid i liked watching the dick emery show,most people in the uk had doorstep delivery delighted delivery electric milk floats it was @ its heights in the 40s,50s,60s,70,80s,90s, it was convenience mainly,people had fridge freezers you paid extra for the service,not everyone had cars or couldn't be bothered shopping & carrying home.most people go to supermarkets now for milk,butter,cheese,yoghurt, fresh orange. Occasionally people would nick your milk or birds would peck the silver foil tops for the cream on top of the milk.our milkman lived a rich lifestyle started early finished @ 9am,lived in a big house & went abroad on sunny holidays 3 times ayear.he came around for his money friday nights,cash or cheques,no plastic cards in those days.check the film the early bird norman wisdom 1965,its about a milkman.norman wisdom was hilarious. There's another one where he wants to join the police, i haven't seen you react to films but norman wisdom who was british was funny.he was loved &idolised by people from Albania & such forth we english found out later.probably because he was a working class heroe to them..
In Dublin in 60's and early 70's a horse cart was often used, the horse would walk on as required whereas you had to sit in the milk float to move it. Also, everyone got milk delivered so it amounted to a daily check on the vulnerable "yesterdays milk still out? Are they okay"
When I still lived with my parents we received our milk two or three hours after it left the cow. It tasted very different by tea time and to our taste had gone off by the following morning. If you want fresh milk nowadays you'll have to go to the farm.
They made little noise and were speed restricted (electric), I guess they just floated by, in comparison to other traffic. David Bowie's "Rock n roll Suicide" 1973, mentions a milk float!
In the Scottish countryside we used to have the milkman, the fish-van on Friday's, Bakers van on Saturdays
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In the 50's we had dairy, bread, shoe repair, rain gutter same day repair, roof patching same day or next day, glass replacement, a painter would repaint your whole house in a day with all the men he needed on call. Locksmith, concrete repair, tree surgery. There were fish and chip shops who delivered on a bicycle if you called them up and the drug store did the same thing on credit. After my Grandparents ceased living I went back to the neighborhood and cleared up some debts at the bakery and the pharmacist. Door to door services were huge as well as catalog shopping. You did not need to go anywhere as long as you had a telephone and you read the ads in the newspapers or catalogs. I guess Amazon is really the same thing now.
it was very good the M/T bottles was picked up and taken back to dairy sterilised and filed back up again and the truck was Electronic. 😅 we have gone backwards in recycling
I grew up in those days. We had milkmen? Bakers, fishmongers and butchers come round. But the milkman was an institution. You would put a note out to say what you wanted and pay weekly. Also the Dick Emery show was prime time Saturday night viewing. Us British loved him. You should watch Morecombe &Wise
Milkmen usually deliver in the early hours of the morning when it's still dark, they then come around at a more social time on a set day to collect what you owe.
The one that's always hunting men 😂 Always Loved that character. I get milk delivered... no milk women though, and I've no locks on my rooms anyway 😂 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
When I wad a kid in the 70s the Milkmen would run a Christmas club whereby you could pay so much a wk for all your food (meat,veg etc) and drink (soft drinks such as creamsoda etc) needed for Christmas.
I have my milk delivered in glass bottles. The milkman delivers the milk about 5.30 am, it comes from a local farm, and I can see the cows grazing in he fields near me. I also get freerange local eggs.
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The milk process, when you get the milkman on board, you will say what you want a week, lets say 1 pint a day, monday to friday he will leave one pint and 2 on a saturday, because he does not work sundays, Most people wont see a milkman, because the idea is milk for breakfast, we would start around 3am in the morning and be done by 7am ish, but if you needed extra, you just put a note in the empty bottle, you may have guest coming need more, he would mke a note in his book the extra, collecting the money is done on a evening, usually from 4.30pm onwards, after people have finished work, some people knowing they wont be, would hide the money under the bin, under plant pot, arranged with milkman, should you not be in, the money would roll onto the next week, we did max 3 weeks roll over, before stopped milk, Then you would go back differents times, this was very rare back in the day.
We still have our milk delivered . And we have from the same man over 40 years . At the end of the month we put out a cheque for the amount owed and I have not seen him for 3 years or more to speak too .
It was delivered fresh, every day. I still get tea every fortnight hand delivered. Same guy who delivered to my parents. A tea not available in shops. If you have a PO Box number out there I’ll send you some ❤
Also the milk floats were electric and the milk bottles glass. Returned and refilled. We went shopping with reusable cloth bags. No plastic packaging.. everything was weighed into paper bags. The plastic age began in the 80s
The milk was delivered to the door and we paid at the end of the week. Normally with an envelope in a empty milk bottle. Also in the eighties. Duck emery was in the 70s
I remember growing up in the 80s, having the milkman deliveries/ local juice Factory deliveries/Coal man and newspaper deliveries and the two rumours about certain neighbours on the street was always which houses had more than just milk & Coal deliveries and depending on the delivery driver everyone knew what was actually going on lol
I still get milk, fruit juice, eggs and other stuff from our milkman. We also have tea, coffee, biscuits and stuff delivered too from a company called Ringtons, the tea is lovely but the coffee is vile.
I don't think he made it over to the US, so you wouldn't have seen him even if you had been around. His show ran for 18 successful years up to 1981, when he switched to a new format, a sort of comedy detective show. Sadly, he died in 1983 aged 67. He had a range of regular characters, and some regular supporting actors, but he would also come up with one off characters for individual sketches.
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We had to put the empty bottles back on the door step so they could be taken and recycled the next day. But as per my mum, they had to be spotlessly clean, otherwise "What will the neighbours say?"
We still do this in my village in Sussex once a week. Apart from the uniform and milk float it’s nice to know it hasn’t changed really. They have raw milk too!
Hi Guys, This is a classic case of the old saying "if it isn't broken DON'T fix it" back in the day in the UK all our dairy was delivered by the milk man daily, it was always fresh from local farms in glass recycled bottles and delivered on electric vehicles... I mean, really and employed lots of people.
I still have milk delivered to the door
There's a guy down the road that still works as a milkman, he drives a van but we still get fresh milk and eggs from a local farm here in Wales which is a bit of nostalgia worth holding onto
As a 17 year old I delivered milk for a small independent dairy. Bulk deliveries were in churns. I used to handle two at a time by spinning them on their rims.
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 and before I delivered milk I had a Saturday/holiday job helping the "breadman" make deliveries.
The m8lkman always drove an electric milk van. We used tobuyveg3tablesfrom avantoo.
That really brought back some memories. That short clip showed the full range of Dick Emery’s characters. Very funny.
We ADORED Dick Emery. My dad was a milkman. I was a milk girl, at the dairy 4am. Helped my milky load the milk float, restocked the cool box with OJ, butter, eggs and bacon. Did it for almost a year. Snow (nightmare) and summer. My dad saved several old ladies who had fallen over and down their stairs. He was also robbed at knifepoint, just the once. This was 1974 I was doing mine and dad was a year later so didn't work for him. It was a good time. It was. Ask anyone from then. Problems, yes but that's life wherever you are.
Being English, BRITISH, back then, made us proud. most people loved this country.
Really, it's night and day compared with now.
Most of us owned very little but we were happier than now.And we had a community and strong family connections. People stayed put for years, you knew people for years.
Looking at it now makes me weep.
What can I say? Do more Dick, obviously. Also the absolute comedy genius of Stanley Baxter. Anyone will tell you. Please find him, you won't be sorry.
Dawn, I'm 62, moved away from the UK in 2007 because I saw it plummeting to the depths. So sad eh. The 70's and early 80's were the best of it for me, and for many others I feel. When I see the news from back home now (my Mum is still around), it makes me so sad. The country is broken...absolutely wrecked from top to bottom. They tell me that comedy such as this would not even be allowed nowadays. Why I ask? The TV shows are all violence and homosexual sex, but, show "Love thy neighbour" or "Dick Emery", Benny Hill etc, and people would have a meltdown.
What happened to society huh.... it's sick.
All the best.
@@deanmartin6052 I agree and I'm so very tired of it all. i don't recognise my own country that I loved. Where did you escape to?
...Obviously do more Dick...
..well, my oh my, ..
a lil tongue in cheeks there perhaps too;
..if it's consentua, itl helps keep the /your inner youthful self feeling alive, happy, & tingly good!
@@DawnSuttonfabfouri'd like to know where you went to?.
@@MartinBrennan-b8b From London to East Anglia on the east coast of England. Is that what you meant?
I was a Milkman in the late 1970’s
Had 452 houses on my round.
Used to start at 6am
a late riser? At Christmas I was allowed to take the Float out at 02:30. Normally we were not allowed out until 04:00
I really want to ask. How many “invitations” inside, in both senses of the term, did you receive?
I live in Kent, UK and we still have a milkman who delivers twice a week from the local dairy. He provides everything from milk, oat milk, cream, yoghurt, creme fraiche, cheese, butter, eggs, water, orange juice and apple juice as well as fresh vegetables from local farms when in season. An invaluable service to the community and I hope we never lose it. 😄
They even still provide the classic 'Gold Top' which is milk from Jersey cows with 5% cream!!! Simply delicious!!
I'm disabled, so my milkman saved my butt during covid, that's for sure!
That's Wendy Richard that answers the door, she has been in lots of shows over the years, sadly no longer with us. "Lucky ole Jim" 😆
She was such a gorgeous looking lady in her time. Sadly missed.
She was most famous for playing Pauline Fowler in Eastenders and also Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served
@@jameswiglesworth5004 Was also in an episode of Up Pompeii (as was Molly Sugden...)
she turned sour in old age
@@annother3350 Smoking ages people prematurely. She smoked like a chimney.
Having your milk delivered happened everyday (except Sundays) rain, shine, snow, and you'd pay them in cash weekly. I remember as a 3/4-yr old being allowed to go out with our local milkman once to deliver the milk on his milk float. We travelled all the way to the depot, then he dropped me off home - it was a great adventure. That was the level of trust people had in their local milkmen and postmen back in the day, they were an integral part of the community.
I was one for about a year, WORST job I have ever had, and when I was doing it, we worked 7 days a week. It was whilst I was doing rounds (mostly Country rounds) that they stopped working Sundays (around 1975 / 76)
@@grabtharshammerBest job i ever had . 20 years. 7 days a week till the mid eighties when the accountants took over controlling companies. Took them less than 10 years to destroy the whole industry. Thatchers Snatchers.
Yep back in the 60s, I also used to help out the milkman during his rounds in the area lived in. He'd pick me up on route then drop me off before leaving to deliver in the next area. To an 8 year old it was fun.
Riding on a milk float wouldn't be allowed today, not with the health and safety rules we have in place now.
Innocent times back then.
LOVE Dick Emery, GENIUS...... Thanks for sharing
I remember when the milkman used to come round. Bottles clanking in the early hours, taking the empties back. Coming round to collect his money. You have to remember, very few houses would have had a refrigerator until the 60’s or 70’s. Milk would spoil in a day or two in summer, even when kept in a larder on a marble block. You would order how many pints you used a day or put a note in the top of an empty and they would turn up fresh in the morning. Died off when supermarkets started undercutting the milk price by several pence a pint.
I remember my mum in early 70s keeping the milk in a sink full of cold water in the hotter months.
The milkman died off because his milk would spoil in a day or two when supermarket milk lasts a week
Lasted longer in Scotland but the birds used to skim the cream of the top if you didn't get it in quickly!
Milk tasted like milk then. No cream now.
@@elainehumphrey2307 I get milk with cream...schlurrrp!
The milk man was very popular in the 60's and 70's in the UK. The delivery vehicles were electric running on huge batteries linked in series under the bed at the back where the crates were carried. They had a top speed of around 35 miles per hour and a range of about 50 miles. You ordered and got daily deliveries then paid weekly leaving the empty bottles out for collection when fresh milk was delivered next day.
They often sold and delivered eggs too. The blonde actress who pulled money out of her bra is called Wendy Richard she did many sketches like this in comedy shows and played roles in comedy series. Most famous Are You Being Served set in a department store where she and an older actress Molly Sugden worked in the ladies lingerie department.
For many years she played a role in a long running soap opera about life in the East End of London called (predictably) East Enders. She passed away a couple of years ago.
When I was a lad back in 1950's the milkman and the bakers were using horse and carts to deliver door to door, but they started fazing them in favour of electric milk floats. Also the first woman at the door to the milkman was Wendy Richards and was on a record with Mike Sarne singing a song called Come Outside.
A bit of nostalgia; I remember when the baker came twice a week with his very aromatic wares in a wicker basket, the butcher came round once a week and parked for 5-10 minutes at the corner, the mobile shop too but different corners, the window cleaner came every once in a while and the milkman came every day but Sunday :)
I remember as a very young lad in the 70's the odd horse and cart, the old rag and bone man looking for second hand or broken stuff on his cart blowing his horn. Also back then a lot of communities had their own local dairy so a lot of what the milkman had was really really fresh.
late 1990's a south london brewery were using horse n carts .... and a rag n bone man in Plumstead
Just to let you know that in England we still have milkman there are just fewer of them , but they are still around
one comes down our street to our neighbours.
We still get our milk delivered. The main difference is, it's oat milk.
@@elvwood euch!
They are coming back, Milk and More, modernmilkman are 2 companies
AS A INSURANCE MAN FOR 25 YEARS ( RETIRED ) I CAN CONFIRM THAT MANY SUCH DOOR TO DOOR CALLER'S ARE TEMPTED LIKE THIS. AND MANY LOST THEIR JOBS.
At my old place - Suffolk, East Anglia - the garden still had the remains underground of an ice vault used to store perishables. The house was built C 1840.
Awesome, loved his shows,
Great Choice - I remember these deliveries when I was a kid in London: we also had a free carton of milk at school to prevent “rickets” - vitamin deficiency. Also, everybody smoked everywhere!
I used to have a milk round as a lad around West Ham and Plaistow.Earned 2/6p on a week day (12.5pence) and 5/- on a saturday(25.pence)
I was a milk boy back in the late 60s early 70s ….everyone knew old Harry the milkman in Bedfont Middlesex next to Heathrow airport I had a great time and at Christmas my tips were more than my dad earned in a week …old Harry died a week after retiring…he was fit but I think being the milkman loved by all was his life ..sad …good on ya Harry R,I,P THE CLIP YOU SHOWED WAS FROM AROUND 72/73 I think
The first lady in the sketch was played by Wendy Richard, who may be familiar to Americans as Miss Brahms in "Are You Being Served?".
The thing is about the milkman that he was everything that people say we need now. Electric vehicles and glass bottles that were recycled daily. You used to get your milk and leave your empties outside for him to collect so they could be taken and used again. You used to pay the milkman weekly in cash.
"You used to pay the milkman weekly in cash." Or in tokens if it was the Co-op!
My neighbours still have a milkman, its amazing what they carry.
My Husbands Aunt, had a farm, and he would go with his uncle to deliver milk on a horse and cart ,straight from the cows.
His mum is quality & he absolutely knows it & together. they are hilarious!!!!
My dad was a milkman for 30 years.... used to love helping on his round but the 4am starts were a killer 😊
Milkmen delivered every day except Sunday and you paid weekly and it was also a good source of income for teenagers who used to get a job earning pocket money helping the milkman and another popular job for the youngsters was delivering newspapers for the local paper shops
I did both of those. 12/13 doing the milk then newspaper delivery. Aged 15 I worked my entire 6 week summer holiday making tea, washing up etc for posh companies in the City of London. My family was hardworking but also not a lot of spending money left over. My elder brother also went on the milk and remember! We had to go to school after. Deliveries mostly done well before 9am when school started.
I am old enough to remember the milk man, bread man and the egg man. The milk bottles were washed by my Mum and ready for swapping to full ones. These were not left on the stoop, but in a milk box built in the wall beside the door so milk, butter, cream or cheese would not freeze in winter. These bottles were not recycled, they were washed, sterilized and refilled. The bread man always knocked as would the egg man. Back then, you could leave money and a note for anything extra and no one would touch it. If you were short a bit, the milk man would just write it on your note. Oddly enough, I am the "milk man's son"! The same with my siblings as he was married to my Mum! Cheers and thanks for the hilarious reminder of real comedy from Alberta, Canada.
i still get my milk delivered to the door ,waiting for me on the doorstep in the morning.
Saw him live on stage while on holiday with my parents and brother while on holiday in Great Yarmouth
See what happened when the men left the 'little woman' home alone all day! 😂😂😂 it's still possible to get your milk delivered daily - and the milk, eggs, etc are fresh as they always were!
Wendy Richards who has been mentioned several times in the comments was also a regular in a sitcom called 'Are you being served?' which was set in a department store, and I believe is shown on PBS in America.
The 1st lady he went to was played by Wendy Richard. She went onto other programs. One was a soap called Eastenders, based in London.
And indeed she was in a soap opera called The Newcomers
I can remember milk, eggs, butter and cream being delivered. Every house that used the service had an insulated galvanized box with a hinged lid. You left a note as to what you wanted. The milkman would leave your purchase and the bill that you would pay by leaving a check or cash for the previous order.
In the late 90s when i was about 15 I saved for my first PC by doing milk delivery. It was me and a friend and the driver who paid us.
We were picked up about 4:30am and we'd jump on and off the van for a couple of hours 4 mornings a week. Sometimes being dropped off at a street with a full crate and having several customers to deliver to.
I remember jumping off the van in winter when it was moving and falling right on my bum 😂
I was ridiculously fit during that time because of all the running but it took a heavy toll on my school work, I'd fall asleep in Maths class.
Going back to the days of milk delivery reminds me we also had a German guy who stayed in England after the war and did deliveries of cakes, sweets, breakfast cereals etc out the back of his van, came twice a week, those were the days of water fights and hide & seek out in the street during school holidays.....so different to today!
FYI - WW2 UK rations per person, per week
4 ounces bacon or ham, 8 ounces of other meat, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of cheese, 4 ounces of margarine, 4 ounces of cooking fat, 3 pints of milk, 8 ounces of sugar, 2 ounces of tea and 1 egg. Clothes and petrol was rationed. My Mother used to use beetroot juice to stain her lips as there wasn't any
My late dad and one of my brothers used to be milkmen. Don’t know if they got up to any naughty business though 😂. I remember one Christmas Eve when the milkmen from my brother’s depot were allowed to deliver late at night, instead of delivering early on Christmas morning, and all his brothers, (there are 6 boys in the family) went out to help him get it done as quickly as possible. Being able to get milk from so many different outlets now has reduced the amount of milk being delivered to the door, plus if you’re at work when the milk is delivered, it sits on the doorstep until you get home - ok in the coldest months but not so good in the warmer months.
good times back in the old days. we didnt have much but we could play out without worrying if we were going to get hurt by someone.
That's before my time, and I was born in 1959. We lived about 10 miles from Saddleworth Moor.
We have a milkman delivers to houses near me , I sometimes hear him at 3-0am bladder permitting 😂😂😂
Have a look for Benny Hill "Ernie"(the fastest milkman in the west)
Dick Emery is of a time could never be shown today but loved it back in the day!
I had a milkman for many years (No, No stop it )
He was an avid golfer on his days off. He told me that even in a snow blizzard, he'd be out on the golf course.
Love your program from the UK just two points on the milkman sketch number 1/60 years ago. They were more electrical vehicles/milk floats in the UK then the rest of the world. Point number two there were no preservatives in those days so you had to have all your fresh food, on an almost daily basis glad you liked it
From the various reactions I've seen, you two obviously relish this style of older Brit comedy. Perhaps one day you could take a look at "The Plank". The 1967 original version is better than the remake. However the remake is shorter. Both are readily available on YT. Both have a cast of the best comedians of that time. Especially the two "heroes" played by Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper. -- Even if it is just private viewing, you'll love it!
My grandfather was a Milkman back in the 1920's & he had a horse & cart. Fast forward to the 1960's & we used to have milk delivered just like this by a milkman who drove an Express Dairy electric "Milk Float". We have recently switched to having our Milk delivered to our house in glass bottles instead of buying it in plastic containers from the supermarket. Not sure if our milkman uses an electric van though because he delivers our milk at 4am 3 days a week & we've never seen him!
My mum used to deliver milk using a pony and cart in the late 30s, from her father's farm.
I am from the UK and grew up in that time. The milkman would turn up at 6am. That is the 70's
I also came from city and everyone knew each other in my area.
I love it I was allowed to grow up slowly
The way it should be today, clean and fresh.
Early 70s, I'm 65 and can just remember it....
I was a milk boy as a kid loved it , up early do your round then off to school and get payed by the milkman at the end of the week to spend at the weekend . Learning about work and money at an early age
As a kid back in the 'fifties there was an old bus that came by every week. The guy sold fresh fruits and vegetables to housewives all over town.
The milkman delivered just about everything and between the 1950s & 1980s the payments in kind were quite common place. Mike was delivered on a daily basis bread eggs bacon even chocolate was delivered on weekly basis. There was also a growsers van that would come around on weekly basis
We had the same system in Ireland. Winters were much colder back in the '50s and 60s and I remember often coming out on a winter' s morning finding the top of the milk frozen with the cap askew! Also, the milk wasn't homigenised like now so the cream rose to the top.
The gag with the "nothing today thank you" neighbour, at that time it was normal to refuse a regular delivery or ask for extra. You'd put out your empties for (recycling) collection with a note for the following morning. That doorstep bottle carrier had a pointer you could move, "X pints today please." I can't read the sign either but it's probably "and more stuff." She's put it outside her neighbours, the milkman has delivered, then she removes the evidence so the neighbour is on the hook for payment.
My family was a long line of dairy farmers. I have old photos of them delivering milk from a horse-drawn cart (a 'dray'). You didn't get bottles in their day, you came out to meet them with your own jug and milk was ladled out into it from a big metal milk churn ("milk can" in the US I believe).
That was truly a throwback, I watched this as a kid. Dick Emery was funny asf even though some of it went over my head. Thanks guys 😂👍
We still have milkman . He still delivers milk cream butter eggs and all sorts of stuff
When I was a child, in the 60’s, you could deliver daily newspapers to earn pocket money. You could also help the milkman, like you’ve just seen, deliver the milk, for ‘a few bob’ (in our pre decimal currency, about 5 to 10 pence depending how generous the milkman felt)
Usually you would end up doing all his leg work and he could finish his round quicker.
A lot of them had a second job after their early morning round.
It was more common for the wives to be at home in those days!
I love these old British shows. 😂
I think you've done Benny Hill, Dick Emery and the Two Ronnies. That leaves you with Morecambe and Wise.
My two favourite M&W sketches are the Grieg Piano Concerto with Andre Previn and the Breakfast Sketch.
When I was first married (1970) we lived next to hill, and the "Bottle Lorries" used to come down in the early hours on route to the Dairy, as they applied the brakes, all the empty bottles would rattle...loudly
Use to go out with a milkman at 5 in the morning before school. (14years old). didnt see any ladies in baby dolls though. maybe later when he collected his money. 😂
As a young kid i liked watching the dick emery show,most people in the uk had doorstep delivery delighted delivery electric milk floats it was @ its heights in the 40s,50s,60s,70,80s,90s, it was convenience mainly,people had fridge freezers you paid extra for the service,not everyone had cars or couldn't be bothered shopping & carrying home.most people go to supermarkets now for milk,butter,cheese,yoghurt, fresh orange. Occasionally people would nick your milk or birds would peck the silver foil tops for the cream on top of the milk.our milkman lived a rich lifestyle started early finished @ 9am,lived in a big house & went abroad on sunny holidays 3 times ayear.he came around for his money friday nights,cash or cheques,no plastic cards in those days.check the film the early bird norman wisdom 1965,its about a milkman.norman wisdom was hilarious. There's another one where he wants to join the police, i haven't seen you react to films but norman wisdom who was british was funny.he was loved &idolised by people from Albania & such forth we english found out later.probably because he was a working class heroe to them..
In Dublin in 60's and early 70's a horse cart was often used, the horse would walk on as required whereas you had to sit in the milk float to move it. Also, everyone got milk delivered so it amounted to a daily check on the vulnerable "yesterdays milk still out? Are they okay"
So hilarious I almost woke up.
When I still lived with my parents we received our milk two or three hours after it left the cow. It tasted very different by tea time and to our taste had gone off by the following morning. If you want fresh milk nowadays you'll have to go to the farm.
Something that always puzzled me as a kid was why those electric milk carts were called milk floats.
They made little noise and were speed restricted (electric), I guess they just floated by, in comparison to other traffic.
David Bowie's "Rock n roll Suicide" 1973, mentions a milk float!
In the Scottish countryside we used to have the milkman, the fish-van on Friday's, Bakers van on Saturdays
In the 50's we had dairy, bread, shoe repair, rain gutter same day repair, roof patching same day or next day, glass replacement, a painter would repaint your whole house in a day with all the men he needed on call. Locksmith, concrete repair, tree surgery. There were fish and chip shops who delivered on a bicycle if you called them up and the drug store did the same thing on credit. After my Grandparents ceased living I went back to the neighborhood and cleared up some debts at the bakery and the pharmacist. Door to door services were huge as well as catalog shopping. You did not need to go anywhere as long as you had a telephone and you read the ads in the newspapers or catalogs. I guess Amazon is really the same thing now.
I'd forgotten how good he was
When I was young the milkman still had a horse and cart.
it was very good the M/T bottles was picked up and taken back to dairy sterilised and filed back up again and the truck was Electronic. 😅 we have gone backwards in recycling
I grew up in those days. We had milkmen? Bakers, fishmongers and butchers come round. But the milkman was an institution. You would put a note out to say what you wanted and pay weekly. Also the Dick Emery show was prime time Saturday night viewing. Us British loved him. You should watch Morecombe &Wise
Milkmen usually deliver in the early hours of the morning when it's still dark, they then come around at a more social time on a set day to collect what you owe.
Perhaps it was summer when it's light at 4am?
@@jules.8443 Most people wouldn't answer their door at 4am, or if they did, they would likely be knocking somebody out.
I pay by direct debit now.
The one that's always hunting men 😂
Always Loved that character.
I get milk delivered... no milk women though, and I've no locks on my rooms anyway 😂
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When I wad a kid in the 70s the Milkmen would run a Christmas club whereby you could pay so much a wk for all your food (meat,veg etc) and drink (soft drinks such as creamsoda etc) needed for Christmas.
I am a Brit I grew up watching this man
He is hilarious
It was all fresh
I have my milk delivered in glass bottles. The milkman delivers the milk about 5.30 am, it comes from a local farm, and I can see the cows grazing in he fields near me. I also get freerange local eggs.
Shear class!..♥😂👍🇬🇧
The man in the house visited by the preist is played by Ben Elton a British Comedian who went on to write Blackadder and The Young Ones.
The woman (Dick Emery) answering the door to the copper was uncannily like Rose West..... and with people going missing!
Father Ted, had a episode about a milkman called Pat Mustard and all the hairy babies looking like Pat Mustard.
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The milk process, when you get the milkman on board, you will say what you want a week, lets say 1 pint a day, monday to friday he will leave one pint and 2 on a saturday, because he does not work sundays, Most people wont see a milkman, because the idea is milk for breakfast, we would start around 3am in the morning and be done by 7am ish, but if you needed extra, you just put a note in the empty bottle, you may have guest coming need more, he would mke a note in his book the extra, collecting the money is done on a evening, usually from 4.30pm onwards, after people have finished work, some people knowing they wont be, would hide the money under the bin, under plant pot, arranged with milkman, should you not be in, the money would roll onto the next week, we did max 3 weeks roll over, before stopped milk, Then you would go back differents times, this was very rare back in the day.
Saw Dickie emery on stage a few times in the 1970’s at Great Yarmouth
Wow Wendy Richards ! Forgot she was in the Dick Emery Show. Wendy was in a lot of stuff in the Seventies. A Golden time for British Comedy
We still have our milk delivered . And we have from the same man over 40 years . At the end of the month we put out a cheque for the amount owed and I have not seen him for 3 years or more to speak too .
1970s UK humour, The best 🇬🇧 😮😁
It was delivered fresh, every day.
I still get tea every fortnight hand delivered. Same guy who delivered to my parents. A tea not available in shops. If you have a PO Box number out there I’ll send you some ❤
Also the milk floats were electric and the milk bottles glass. Returned and refilled. We went shopping with reusable cloth bags. No plastic packaging.. everything was weighed into paper bags. The plastic age began in the 80s
Honest reactions every time ....
Fake laughter kills it
Dick Emery.... Lampwick, Mandy....! Everything!
RIP, Dick Emery, Roy Kinnear, and all involved!
The milk was delivered to the door and we paid at the end of the week. Normally with an envelope in a empty milk bottle. Also in the eighties. Duck emery was in the 70s
I remember growing up in the 80s, having the milkman deliveries/ local juice Factory deliveries/Coal man and newspaper deliveries and the two rumours about certain neighbours on the street was always which houses had more than just milk & Coal deliveries and depending on the delivery driver everyone knew what was actually going on lol
I still get milk, fruit juice, eggs and other stuff from our milkman. We also have tea, coffee, biscuits and stuff delivered too from a company called Ringtons, the tea is lovely but the coffee is vile.
I can tell you both it was a far better time then .then it is now believe me its true 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I don't think he made it over to the US, so you wouldn't have seen him even if you had been around. His show ran for 18 successful years up to 1981, when he switched to a new format, a sort of comedy detective show. Sadly, he died in 1983 aged 67. He had a range of regular characters, and some regular supporting actors, but he would also come up with one off characters for individual sketches.
Milk floats were one of the more successful electric vehicles, almost silent so they didn't wake up the neighbourhood.
We still have a milk man where I live in West Yorkshire there are 3 in the area that deliver every day but not Sunday.
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