Readers of the Cornish Times may be able to help in my search for old milk bottles. I am interested in bottles that were used for retailing milk between 1930 and 1970 and would have shown the retailer's name and location.

My hobby since retiring from a career in distribution within the milk industry is to research all dairies in Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and locate them one by one in the hope I can find an example of the bottles they used.

My collection of bottles will eventually be donated to the National Trust for it to permanently display in a suitable location within the four counties of interest.

My hope, therefore, is to prompt any reader in the area of circulation of the Cornish Times to contact me if they have any examples of or information about these old bottles and/or any information to enable me to find these old dairies that existed during the last century. 

My contact telephone number is 01404 42642. I feel it is important to find these items and preserve them for all to see as part of our social history.

  

Peter Hayward

(via email)

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