Having your milk delivered happened everyday (except Sundays) rain, shine, snow, and you'd pay them in cash weekly. I remember as a 3/4-yr old being allowed to go out with our local milkman once to deliver the milk on his milk float. We travelled all the way to the depot, then he dropped me off home - it was a great adventure. That was the level of trust people had in their local milkmen and postmen back in the day, they were an integral part of the community.
I was one for about a year, WORST job I have ever had, and when I was doing it, we worked 7 days a week. It was whilst I was doing rounds (mostly Country rounds) that they stopped working Sundays (around 1975 / 76)
@@grabtharshammerBest job i ever had . 20 years. 7 days a week till the mid eighties when the accountants took over controlling companies. Took them less than 10 years to destroy the whole industry. Thatchers Snatchers.
We ADORED Dick Emery. My dad was a milkman. I was a milk girl, at the dairy 4am. Helped my milky load the milk float, restocked the cool box with OJ, butter, eggs and bacon. Did it for almost a year. Snow (nightmare) and summer. My dad saved several old ladies who had fallen over and down their stairs. He was also robbed at knifepoint, just the once. This was 1974 I was doing mine and dad was a year later so didn't work for him. It was a good time. It was. Ask anyone from then. Problems, yes but that's life wherever you are. Being English, BRITISH, back then, made us proud. most people loved this country. Really, it's night and day compared with now. Most of us owned very little but we were happier than now.And we had a community and strong family connections. People stayed put for years, you knew people for years. Looking at it now makes me weep. What can I say? Do more Dick, obviously. Also the absolute comedy genius of Stanley Baxter. Anyone will tell you. Please find him, you won't be sorry.
I remember when the milkman used to come round. Bottles clanking in the early hours, taking the empties back. Coming round to collect his money. You have to remember, very few houses would have had a refrigerator until the 60’s or 70’s. Milk would spoil in a day or two in summer, even when kept in a larder on a marble block. You would order how many pints you used a day or put a note in the top of an empty and they would turn up fresh in the morning. Died off when supermarkets started undercutting the milk price by several pence a pint.
I live in Kent, UK and we still have a milkman who delivers twice a week from the local dairy. He provides everything from milk, oat milk, cream, yoghurt, creme fraiche, cheese, butter, eggs, water, orange juice and apple juice as well as fresh vegetables from local farms when in season. An invaluable service to the community and I hope we never lose it. 😄 They even still provide the classic 'Gold Top' which is milk from Jersey cows with 5% cream!!! Simply delicious!!
Hi Guys, This is a classic case of the old saying "if it isn't broken DON'T fix it" back in the day in the UK all our dairy was delivered by the milk man daily, it was always fresh from local farms in glass recycled bottles and delivered on electric vehicles... I mean, really and employed lots of people.
There's a guy down the road that still works as a milkman, he drives a van but we still get fresh milk and eggs from a local farm here in Wales which is a bit of nostalgia worth holding onto
As a 17 year old I delivered milk for a small independent dairy. Bulk deliveries were in churns. I used to handle two at a time by spinning them on their rims.
I remember as a very young lad in the 70's the odd horse and cart, the old rag and bone man looking for second hand or broken stuff on his cart blowing his horn. Also back then a lot of communities had their own local dairy so a lot of what the milkman had was really really fresh.
The thing is about the milkman that he was everything that people say we need now. Electric vehicles and glass bottles that were recycled daily. You used to get your milk and leave your empties outside for him to collect so they could be taken and used again. You used to pay the milkman weekly in cash.
My neighbours still have a milkman, its amazing what they carry. My Husbands Aunt, had a farm, and he would go with his uncle to deliver milk on a horse and cart ,straight from the cows.
When I was a lad back in 1950's the milkman and the bakers were using horse and carts to deliver door to door, but they started fazing them in favour of electric milk floats. Also the first woman at the door to the milkman was Wendy Richards and was on a record with Mike Sarne singing a song called Come Outside.
At my old place - Suffolk, East Anglia - the garden still had the remains underground of an ice vault used to store perishables. The house was built C 1840.
In the late 90s when i was about 15 I saved for my first PC by doing milk delivery. It was me and a friend and the driver who paid us. We were picked up about 4:30am and we'd jump on and off the van for a couple of hours 4 mornings a week. Sometimes being dropped off at a street with a full crate and having several customers to deliver to. I remember jumping off the van in winter when it was moving and falling right on my bum 😂 I was ridiculously fit during that time because of all the running but it took a heavy toll on my school work, I'd fall asleep in Maths class.
I love these old British shows. 😂 I think you've done Benny Hill, Dick Emery and the Two Ronnies. That leaves you with Morecambe and Wise. My two favourite M&W sketches are the Grieg Piano Concerto with Andre Previn and the Breakfast Sketch.
The milk man was very popular in the 60's and 70's in the UK. The delivery vehicles were electric running on huge batteries linked in series under the bed at the back where the crates were carried. They had a top speed of around 35 miles per hour and a range of about 50 miles. You ordered and got daily deliveries then paid weekly leaving the empty bottles out for collection when fresh milk was delivered next day. They often sold and delivered eggs too. The blonde actress who pulled money out of her bra is called Wendy Richard she did many sketches like this in comedy shows and played roles in comedy series. Most famous Are You Being Served set in a department store where she and an older actress Molly Sugden worked in the ladies lingerie department. For many years she played a role in a long running soap opera about life in the East End of London called (predictably) East Enders. She passed away a couple of years ago.
My late dad and one of my brothers used to be milkmen. Don’t know if they got up to any naughty business though 😂. I remember one Christmas Eve when the milkmen from my brother’s depot were allowed to deliver late at night, instead of delivering early on Christmas morning, and all his brothers, (there are 6 boys in the family) went out to help him get it done as quickly as possible. Being able to get milk from so many different outlets now has reduced the amount of milk being delivered to the door, plus if you’re at work when the milk is delivered, it sits on the doorstep until you get home - ok in the coldest months but not so good in the warmer months.
The milk process, when you get the milkman on board, you will say what you want a week, lets say 1 pint a day, monday to friday he will leave one pint and 2 on a saturday, because he does not work sundays, Most people wont see a milkman, because the idea is milk for breakfast, we would start around 3am in the morning and be done by 7am ish, but if you needed extra, you just put a note in the empty bottle, you may have guest coming need more, he would mke a note in his book the extra, collecting the money is done on a evening, usually from 4.30pm onwards, after people have finished work, some people knowing they wont be, would hide the money under the bin, under plant pot, arranged with milkman, should you not be in, the money would roll onto the next week, we did max 3 weeks roll over, before stopped milk, Then you would go back differents times, this was very rare back in the day.
The milkman delivered just about everything and between the 1950s & 1980s the payments in kind were quite common place. Mike was delivered on a daily basis bread eggs bacon even chocolate was delivered on weekly basis. There was also a growsers van that would come around on weekly basis
I was a milk boy as a kid loved it , up early do your round then off to school and get payed by the milkman at the end of the week to spend at the weekend . Learning about work and money at an early age
When I still lived with my parents we received our milk two or three hours after it left the cow. It tasted very different by tea time and to our taste had gone off by the following morning. If you want fresh milk nowadays you'll have to go to the farm.
Milkmen delivered every day except Sunday and you paid weekly and it was also a good source of income for teenagers who used to get a job earning pocket money helping the milkman and another popular job for the youngsters was delivering newspapers for the local paper shops
Use to go out with a milkman at 5 in the morning before school. (14years old). didnt see any ladies in baby dolls though. maybe later when he collected his money. 😂
Wendy Richards who has been mentioned several times in the comments was also a regular in a sitcom called 'Are you being served?' which was set in a department store, and I believe is shown on PBS in America.
When I was a child, in the 60’s, you could deliver daily newspapers to earn pocket money. You could also help the milkman, like you’ve just seen, deliver the milk, for ‘a few bob’ (in our pre decimal currency, about 5 to 10 pence depending how generous the milkman felt) Usually you would end up doing all his leg work and he could finish his round quicker. A lot of them had a second job after their early morning round. It was more common for the wives to be at home in those days!
We had to put the empty bottles back on the door step so they could be taken and recycled the next day. But as per my mum, they had to be spotlessly clean, otherwise "What will the neighbours say?"
As a young kid i liked watching the dick emery show,most people in the uk had doorstep delivery delighted delivery electric milk floats it was @ its heights in the 40s,50s,60s,70,80s,90s, it was convenience mainly,people had fridge freezers you paid extra for the service,not everyone had cars or couldn't be bothered shopping & carrying home.most people go to supermarkets now for milk,butter,cheese,yoghurt, fresh orange. Occasionally people would nick your milk or birds would peck the silver foil tops for the cream on top of the milk.our milkman lived a rich lifestyle started early finished @ 9am,lived in a big house & went abroad on sunny holidays 3 times ayear.he came around for his money friday nights,cash or cheques,no plastic cards in those days.check the film the early bird norman wisdom 1965,its about a milkman.norman wisdom was hilarious. There's another one where he wants to join the police, i haven't seen you react to films but norman wisdom who was british was funny.he was loved &idolised by people from Albania & such forth we english found out later.probably because he was a working class heroe to them..
From the various reactions I've seen, you two obviously relish this style of older Brit comedy. Perhaps one day you could take a look at "The Plank". The 1967 original version is better than the remake. However the remake is shorter. Both are readily available on YT. Both have a cast of the best comedians of that time. Especially the two "heroes" played by Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper. -- Even if it is just private viewing, you'll love it!
I don't think he made it over to the US, so you wouldn't have seen him even if you had been around. His show ran for 18 successful years up to 1981, when he switched to a new format, a sort of comedy detective show. Sadly, he died in 1983 aged 67. He had a range of regular characters, and some regular supporting actors, but he would also come up with one off characters for individual sketches.
Going back to the days of milk delivery reminds me we also had a German guy who stayed in England after the war and did deliveries of cakes, sweets, breakfast cereals etc out the back of his van, came twice a week, those were the days of water fights and hide & seek out in the street during school holidays.....so different to today!
My grandfather was a Milkman back in the 1920's & he had a horse & cart. Fast forward to the 1960's & we used to have milk delivered just like this by a milkman who drove an Express Dairy electric "Milk Float". We have recently switched to having our Milk delivered to our house in glass bottles instead of buying it in plastic containers from the supermarket. Not sure if our milkman uses an electric van though because he delivers our milk at 4am 3 days a week & we've never seen him!
FYI - WW2 UK rations per person, per week 4 ounces bacon or ham, 8 ounces of other meat, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of cheese, 4 ounces of margarine, 4 ounces of cooking fat, 3 pints of milk, 8 ounces of sugar, 2 ounces of tea and 1 egg. Clothes and petrol was rationed. My Mother used to use beetroot juice to stain her lips as there wasn't any
Fun fact: my mum's milkman once left his trousers at her house! It was actually all perfectly innocent, he'd got soaked in the rain that day so she lent him one of my late father's pairs of trousers and put his on the rack to dry out. He was meant to pick them up on his way back later in the round, but it slipped his mind; so next time she saw him she rushed out and deliberately said very loudly "don't forget your trousers this time" - much to his embarassment!
Hey guys ❤ I just watched all your Angelina reaction videos for the 3rd time and I wonder if you have done some recently, because I think you guys have to hear her unreleased song Bad Valentine ❤ The song is absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 And her voice in it is so incredible ❤
The one that's always hunting men 😂 Always Loved that character. I get milk delivered... no milk women though, and I've no locks on my rooms anyway 😂 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
When I wad a kid in the 70s the Milkmen would run a Christmas club whereby you could pay so much a wk for all your food (meat,veg etc) and drink (soft drinks such as creamsoda etc) needed for Christmas.
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Milkmen usually deliver in the early hours of the morning when it's still dark, they then come around at a more social time on a set day to collect what you owe.
Hi Mike & Jess, glad you enjoyed this sketch, Dick Emery was a very talented Comedian. Here are some more Milkman related pieces, the first is a Monty Python pair of sketches incl. The Milkman (3 Mins 27 Secs long). The second is an excerpt from a 1965 comedy film (The Early Bird), by another brilliant U.K. comedian, Norman Wisdom. (6 Mins 19 Secs long) see :- 1st ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IrnZo-fjs_o.htmlsi=JC0k_dMV3uHZ3nf7 2nd ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HFTdEfq8xeQ.htmlsi=ZCUeOPIe7FZvp9Dw enjoy !!
During WW2 or even WW1, it was often a Milkmam or MilkLady, that was of course if there was any milk available. Women took on the roles of the men who were away fighting the War, and afterward even up to the 50's
Hard to believe it's been nigh on 41 years since Dick Emery died. And i see that was indeed Wendy Richard,expecting the randy milkman. As for the old milk float deliveries,i am just about old enough to remember them, But alas,given rising petty crime,youth disrespect and the growing loss of traditional British customs and traditions, that is seldom and if not,ever seen nowadays. Back in the mid 40's and 50's it would have perhaps been safe enough to leave your doors open,know all your neighboUrs (with the U please LOL) and uphold our traditions
Hers in the UK we can still get our milk delivered in glass bottles, along with bread, butter, yogurts etc. I used the service during covid when I didn't want to tasks going to the shops....the milk was SOOOOO much nicer but I can't afford it as a general rule unfortunately as it's a lot more expensive!
One of our neighbours is a milk man. Most people buy their milk from the supermarket, but home delivery hasn't died out yet. Fifty years ago I had a schoolboy job helping a milkman. Free transport and no heavy sacks, unlike paper - boys.
From my period {im 74} there is LOVE thy NEIGHBOUR .. Steptoe and Son. ALf Garnett... you have no ide ahow shocking this period of British TV before 9pm as well...
Hi ,I remember the postwar food,it was BLAND and BASIC.I was born in 1948 , food was still rationed in the UK until 1953 and in short supply well beyond,the government still limited how much of each food each person was allowed per week till 1953 , everything was in short supply, ,meat ,eggs , sugar etc.Thats the reason the UK had and still has to some extent areputation for poor quality bland tasting food . I'm fairly confident that if you did try food from that period you would think it had little taste . ❤❤.
Come on you Guys when are you finally going to discover the best British Comedy Double act of the 1970s Morecambe and Wise!!! They truly were comedy royalty and oh so funny!!! So please take the chance to discover Morecambe and Wise and there BBC Sketch show was a Classic with so many Golden Nuggets and you should check out there Sketch with Des O'Connor which is so good and there MASTERMIND Sketch which is absolutely hilarious!!! So do yourselves a favour and try finally looking at the great Morecambe and Wise???
Early use of electric vehicles. Old lead acid powered. Pre car they brought the heavy items and made the economics of glass bottle recycling work. He was very funny, not sure if the sketch still exists, but there's an old major at his club reminiscing on the last time he....was active.
I’d love to see you both react to Gary Delaney or Jimmy carr most offensive jokes I don’t think Jess will hold out and even you Mike may find the trip harrowing 😁
The 2nd one (who is obviously Dick Emery) put her basket on the next door neighbours step, so they would get charged for whatever was left & she got freebies. (AKA stolen freebies.)
When I was 15 I went to see a fortune teller.. she told me in the next 7 days my father would die.. that's exactly the time that we stopped receiving free milk... my mother and "father" told me Thatcher the milk snatcher was responsible.. I never truly believe them and that's why I've never voted.
guys just to let you know, im from the UK, i was a milk man in the 80's, yeah people did leave a note if the wanted extra, they would have there standard delivery, leave a note to adjust delivery collection was made on thursday and friday evening depending on the round, and no the milk never got it, like the streo type lol best we saw, in 7 years, as a lovely lady, who was a stripper you would pay for stag night for the groom, she had her stockings and sexy stuff, on,, strippergram they were called in tose days you either gotthe sexy lady, or your mates would get the big one for a laugh, the rollie pollies, , big firls all round it was the norm in 80's
Have you seen "The Plank" or any Ealing comedies, Carry Ons, Will Hay, Early Pre Hollywood Alfred Hitchcock (mostly not comedy !), Hollywood era Hitchcock - The Trouble With Harry is worth a look, he did not do much comedy
There is rather a lot of NVC (Non Verbal Communication) in it, but for me that is a large part of what makes it fun ! And very limited need for subtitles ! For foreign viewers !
