Arthur Rickets welcoming the Co-op Dairy Queen 1959Arthur Rickets welcoming the Co-op Dairy Queen 1959
Arthur Rickets welcoming the Co-op Dairy Queen 1959

9 great old images of dairies and milkmen in Portsmouth

Milk used to be delivered to every house in the past. In fact there was quite a lot of competition in the area.

Some of the included in this selection are the Solent Dairy deliveries in Manor Way, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hoars Dairy who were based at Castle Road, Southsea, Jack Cuthbert's Dairy in Hyde Park Road, Portsmouth, Portsea Island Mutual Co-op dairymen at work in Buckland and Fratton and Streets Dairy staff at Baffins Road, Portsmouth.

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