This photograph shows two ladies delivering milk in Cowpen Estate, Billingham. We believe it to be the early 1940$$$s. Also, a photo of an old Brass Milk token. 
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This photograph shows two ladies delivering milk in Cowpen Estate, Billingham. We believe it to be the early 1940$$$s. Also, a photo of an old Brass Milk token.
My dad was in the DLI that made up part of the 8th army Battle of El Alamein Campaign and as soon as that was over he was shiped out to Italy. I can remember as a young lad going to stockton on Remembrance Sunday every year and seeing him with many a tear in his eyes. Over the last few years watching the history channel etc and seeing what the british troops went through sends shivers through me. I recieved a letter from my cousin in australia some years ago telling me how strange it was that her dad, my fathers brother, fought in the 8th army and my father died on the 8th january 1973, her dad died in australia on the 8th aug 1976 three years apart.
As you reminded me Peter in an earlier post.( Last year I think) I am quite a few years older than you, as a result of this I can fairly safely say that the design of the milk float was as we had on the streets of Stockton in the forties and early fifties. I well remember that steel rimmed wheels waking me up clattering over the cobbles of Hutchinson Street at the hour of five o clock. Fancy you being the son of a desert rat Peter. Unbelievable!! Alan
This is a photo of my aunt Muriel delivering milk in Cowpen Estate, Billingham. The year is unknown. She is the one on the left the other lady on the right is unknown to us. I think it must be about the year the second world war broke out as at that time my father was a slaughterman butcher at the Co op on Billingham Green, then he joined the DLI then shipped off to El Alamein. I can remember the coloured plastic milk tokens but not the metal 3d shaped ones. Id be interested to find out the year but not sure if anyone is left alive that can remember.