Dixon”s Farm, horses etc were kept in the yard, next to the Smith s Arms pub, the house over the road from Billingham Social Club on the corner of Church Rd and Station Rd stood Gilesphies, the milk people, a large house, the shop stood next door to Allisons the butcher. Who remembers the milk cart doing the rounds an horse and trap affair the back of the cart was open to accommodate the large milk churns. He use to ladle the milk out into your jug, it wouldn”t be allowed now not sanitary strange didnt see many of us falling down ill them days.
Glebe Farm Billingham Chapel Road Billingham Home of the Dixon Family World Champion ploughmen. who won many competitions throughout Europe and North America in the first half of the 20th Cenntury. The Farm is now a private dwelling
Dixon”s Farm, horses etc were kept in the yard, next to the Smith s Arms pub, the house over the road from Billingham Social Club on the corner of Church Rd and Station Rd stood Gilesphies, the milk people, a large house, the shop stood next door to Allisons the butcher. Who remembers the milk cart doing the rounds an horse and trap affair the back of the cart was open to accommodate the large milk churns. He use to ladle the milk out into your jug, it wouldn”t be allowed now not sanitary strange didnt see many of us falling down ill them days.
Glebe Farm Billingham Chapel Road Billingham Home of the Dixon Family World Champion ploughmen. who won many competitions throughout Europe and North America in the first half of the 20th Cenntury. The Farm is now a private dwelling