Advent Day 2 – Peek Bros. milk bottle
In the run up to Christmas we’ll show some of the objects added to the Museum’s collection in the last 12 months. These objects will be on display at the Museum until we close for Christmas on 16th December.
In the run up to Christmas we’ll show some of the objects added to the Museum’s collection in the last 12 months. These objects will be on display at the Museum until we close for Christmas on 16th December.
I knew those bottles so well. I worked for Cris Peak when I left school in 1958.
I worked mainly on the farm and occasionally in the milk bottling plant.
When the milk rounds business was sold I worked putting land drains in at various fields on the farm.
Thousands of those bottles were used in place of gravel on top of the clay pipes Cris Peak told me the bottles cost six old pence each when they were new.
I worked for Cris for three years and I enjoyed every minute of it. I learned so much from him.
I was luck, (well my son was) to find one of these bottles today over The Manor In Havering.
And what a fine specimen we think it is.
I worked on milk round in Harold Hill for Peaks Dairy (can’t remember Milkman’s name), I was only about 7 when I started until it was sold to United Dairys, great memories going up to greyhound kennels in Grange Road.