Memory Lane

Memories of the dairy industry in North Wales

Old photos to do with milk processing and deliveries.

Iolo Griffiths

InYourArea Community, Iolo Griffiths

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Memories of the dairy industry in North Wales

Gwilym and Doris Williams of Ddol Bach Farm, Llanrug (the two on the left of the photo) on their milk round (in Llanrug) in the early 1940s

A driver for Brookes Milk Limited in Rhyl. The milk churns are of a type that were in use up to the 1970s. Picture submitted by David Williams
RF Williams of Water Street, Abergele, sent in this picture of himself in 1938, delivering milk in Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay. He was then known as Bob Williams, and drove a motor bike with a side box, and worked for Hugh Jones of Bryn Awel, West End
Welsh minister Don Touhig with MP Albert Owen and technician Alice Jones, at the Glanbia Cheese factory, Llangefni, which produces mozzarella cheese in 2005
Jeremy Ritchie, dairy lecturer at Llysfasi college showing a milking machine to Ysgol Penbarras pupils at an open day in May 1998
Comedian Tommy Trinder at the Milk Marketing Board's Miss Dairy Princess of 1963 competition
Pictures submitted by E Morgan of Wallasey showing students at Lleweni Hall Dairy School, near Denbigh, from the late 19th or early 20th century
Dairy workers at Hufenfa De Arfon in the early 1960s. Some of them were seasonal workers on holiday from school or college

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