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Gallery: Archive photographs show Aberdeen’s old milkmen

By Callum Main
1969: A familiar sight for Great Northern Road residents is Mr Hugh Will who delivers the milk
1969: A familiar sight for Great Northern Road residents is Mr Hugh Will who delivers the milk

These photographs, found in our archives, show milkmen from across the north-east in the 50s, 60s and 80s.

Evolving from horse and cart to electric milk floats the archive images show how the trade evolved.

1900s: Fresh milk delivered to the door in Midstocket Road in 1900.
1950s: A hard winter in the North-east lead to a sledge being presses into service to deliver milk. This print, from an uncaptioned glass slide in our archive, possibly dates from the 1950s.
1950: The old and new methods of transport for delivering milk seen here in 1950.
1961: Northern Co-operative Society dairy - Storing the filled bottles in the fridge.
1962: Charlie and Donald know their rounds so well they could do their jobs by themselves if necessary.
1962: Late morning in Aberdeen's West-end in January, 1962 and milk is being delivered in the ago-old way. Near the end of his round, a milkman from Kennerty's Dairy stops outside a house in Forest Avenue near the corner with Great Western Road to leave a crate of milk. The cash bag over his shoulder indicates he is also collecting the weekly payments from his customers.
1967: Milkman Hugh Will of Smithfield Farm Dairy seen here on Great Northern Road during his round in February 1967. This cart was one of the last Aberdeen milk carts photographed in Woodside.
1969: A familiar sight for Great Northern Road residents is Mr Hugh Will who delivers the milk
1972: Mr Alexander Grant, who has been a milk roundsman for 30 years, with "Duke" - the two are a popular "team" at Forres as they deliver for Forsyths.
1983: Loading the electric milk float with a selection of the various products which the modern milkman now delivers
1988: North-east milk roundsmen Mr David McRae and Mr Jimmy Reid who work for Kennerty Farm Dairies and Mackies Dairies respectively, were the main Aberdeen and district winners in a national "Simply Good Eating Cookery Book" milk promotion
1982: The bottling plant of the well-known Kennerty Farm Dairies on Aberdeen's West Tullos Industrial estate.
1992: Process worker Sheila Diack keeps a watchful eye on the daily pinta production.
1993: Steve Cowie, supervisor at Kennerty Farm Dairies, West Tullos, Aberdeen, shows Erika Mutch, 5 round the dairy.

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