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Delivering milk Clun area early 1920s (image)
It was only from the 1920s that milk was normally delivered in bottles. Before then milk sellers, like Sarah Dyke here, made deliveries from door to door. They would ladle out milk from a churn into housewives' jugs.
(Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives)
Photo provided by R.K More
(For further information see "The Working Countryside 1862-1945" by Robin Hill and Paul Stamper, Swan Hill Press 1993)