tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8491197068002893936.post2378252245813896483..comments2024-01-15T08:18:32.641+00:00Comments on The Blog That Used to be Starcross: Milk Bottles.. . . Yes, "Milk Bottles"!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502754753792780008noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8491197068002893936.post-6821628568480672662015-08-08T07:42:07.412+01:002015-08-08T07:42:07.412+01:00I'm another who is pleased to get milk deliver...I'm another who is pleased to get milk delivered in bottles, 4 times a week in my case. I had noted the variation in labelled bottles, but hadn't thought to collect examples, even photographically.<br />I had also wondered how they migrated; but not for many seconds.<br />I rinsed one out yesterday that said it cost 15p, so please return it rather than bin it.<br /><br />Regards.Davidsshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04950943791137165619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8491197068002893936.post-12627919662997560862015-08-07T19:09:12.976+01:002015-08-07T19:09:12.976+01:00We get a thrice-weekly milk delivery but only in s...We get a thrice-weekly milk delivery but only in standard unmarked "southern" bottles. The labelling of individual dairies' bottles makes me wonder if there's any central collection point to repatriate bottles that have gone astray. Or perhaps like 16-ton mineral wagons in 1948 they've been agglomerated into a nationwide common-user pool despite still showing the names of the collieries, or in this case dairies, that previously owned them? Another analogy might be ale casks the ownership of which are indicated by variously-coloured stripes, but in that case the breweries only collect and will only fill their own. A fascinating subject Jim!<br />(Incidentally, when I worked at Arpley Marshalling Yard we handled sand traffic from Oakamoor to the CWS milk-bottle factory at Bamfurlong)Mark Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15066420602124941785noreply@blogger.com