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mwooldri

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7. My family still lives in the Surrey Hills.

Reply to Soph0571 (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 07:22 AM

Aug 2020

So yeah they switched to diesel vans a long while back since fewer and fewer people were using the milkman, depots were closed down and the electric milkfloats just didn't have the range or speed. In the 80s the milkfloat (electric) was a familiar sight to me... By the 90s our family got the milk from the supermarket instead. My dad's family though continued with the milkman, and still do.

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Talk about a blast from the past... [View all] Soph0571 Aug 2020 OP

For those of us snowybirdie Aug 2020 #1

It is a milk float Soph0571 Aug 2020 #2

Hmmm... Might wanna edit that post... mwooldri Aug 2020 #3

I haven't seen one since the early 90's when I moved to London. Soph0571 Aug 2020 #5

My family still lives in the Surrey Hills. mwooldri Aug 2020 #7

This thread makes me think of this sketch for some reason.... T_i_B Aug 2020 #8

My fresh milf is already inside. TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #4

*Groan* Soph0571 Aug 2020 #6

There was a Liverpool dairy still using electric milk floats in 2018, and another had 1 made in 2004 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #9

Certainly remember them well from my childhood LeftishBrit Aug 2020 #10