STEVE!!! He's my milkman!!!!!! My family have used them for 30+ years - and they're AMAZING!!!!

@temaskell08

4 жыл бұрын

Soumya Basu dident he say in the film he had only been doing it 15 years? 😅

@soumyabasu9407

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Maskell ha - you’re right. My family have had Parker Dairies for 30+ years but I’ve only ever known Steve. :-)

@shamirpatel3569

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@oscyk

3 жыл бұрын

"used him" bit weird but OK No hate btw

@rickh3714

2 жыл бұрын

@@oscyk Common native English speaker 'usage' in England & Commonwealth places like NZ regarding someone who you patronize for a service like plumbing, electrical work, builder, milk delivery etc. 'We used that plumber as he gave good quotes' etc, etc. Quite normal, nothing 'off' about it at all. "We didn't end up using Barry the brickie as he left a mess when he did the wall, so we didn't employ him for the patio & used Amanda instead."

There is definately something about getting milk in a glass bottle. It just feels right.

@stuartajc8141

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Milk & More still deliver milk in glass bottles. Not taking on new customers at the moment though.

@sdeee3842

4 жыл бұрын

But goes off quickly coz of the foil cover can’t leave in fridge door. Organic lasts at least 7 days past the BBE if stored in fridge and not in the door! 😃

@stuartajc8141

4 жыл бұрын

@@sdeee3842 I don't understand what you're saying. "can’t leave in fridge door" - what? why? "Organic lasts at least 7 days past the BBE" - why would you ever do that? And "organic" and "in a glass bottle" are not opposites? And fridge door shelves are not warmer than the shelves in the fridge, trust me, I have measured the temperatures.

@mazdaman2315

3 жыл бұрын

It tastes better to

Really cool to see such an old, forgotten trade being brought back to life by eco-conscious demand.

@jevilthechaostailor

2 жыл бұрын

Now lets hope something similar happens with steam trains.

History runs a full circle - Good for him..

@chuckyzzz

4 жыл бұрын

That is what I thought.

@oscyk

3 жыл бұрын

Yes the circle line Ha ha I'm so funny Londonist please delete this

@capcompass9298

2 жыл бұрын

@@oscyk The Circle Line is not Central to this round.

It's pretty smart to now offer milk alternatives on the milk round. Not everyone can handle dairy.

it may not be something that comes to mind often. But when you really get down to it the Milkman is just as associated with the UK as the red post boxes, the red double-decker buses, H.M the Queen, Big ben, Tea etc. This comming from someone who dossent even live in the UK🇸🇪

@mindthegaphj637

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly theres something very British about having a milkman and so much nicer to have a personal relationship with those who deliver to our homes.

Always lovely, but especially so now - my local milkman is focusing on deliveries for the elderly and vulnerable, and since I can't get out to the shops because of my health, it's been a god send.

@jur4x

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they state on their website that because they do most deliveries early in the morning, there is little to none interaction, therefore it is safer to get basic groceries from them.

I remember as children we sobbed when our milkman passed away.

Amazing some people think recycling is a newish concept - who’d of thought the the milkman with their electric floats were ahead of the time. Bring back the 5p on an empty bottle of fizzy drink!

@harrymcfadden2572

Жыл бұрын

Common sence

Please upload again! I love this channel!

@fenkupng

2 жыл бұрын

He uploads here now! kzread.info

@LucavlogsandgamingOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

@@fenkupng I know

I miss putting notes and money out for the milkman, putting the empty bottles out after washing them...

@pinacmediauk7453

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect time to start getting milkman back now

@ajs41

2 жыл бұрын

We've never stopped doing it here in Staffordshire. Actually our latest milkman asks for cheques rather than money. So cheques are still being used in some places!

Have you guys stopped making videos? I used to love your little looks and of course jools and Geoff started here too

I loved my milkman. But I especially loved seeing them, super early in the morning, when I was setting off my long day round trips down to London from Scotland. There was something Audenesque seeing them in the morning, with a great deal of appreciation on my part for the work they did.

Wow, i can still remember the name of our United Dairies milkman from when i was a child in the early 70's - Ted. That was back where i grew up in Thornton Heath. Sadly a milkman down my old road these days would cause nothing but chaos, simply because the road is so full of parked cars there would be nowhere for a milkman to pull over to do his deliveries. Very different from the early 70's when we just had a handful of cars along the entire road. Different pace of life back then.

@ajs41

2 жыл бұрын

We still have milk deliveries here in Staffordshire. They never stopped.

I love the musical choice Londonist ;)

In the 1950s we had two local milk deliveries. One used an electric float, the other a horse and cart. The latter had methane and other emissions!

@jur4x

3 жыл бұрын

But in the 50's most of electricity came from coal. These days, though, coal makes up for less than 10% of all power. And on some days those power plants (only 3 left now) don't run at all. Which means that old milkfloats became greener as they aged :)

‘And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west’ (Showing my age).

@monotonehell

4 жыл бұрын

I won't say anything if you don't. ;) * salutes *

@DavidBromage

4 жыл бұрын

You could 'ear the 'oof beats pound as they raced across the ground...

@TheRahsoft

4 жыл бұрын

Ernie.......

@mercifulzeus01

4 жыл бұрын

There's a "Benny Hill Close" not far from where I live...

@nonamebill7421

2 жыл бұрын

My dad was a milkman for over 30 years. He died just after Christmas. And at his funeral, this was the song that was playing as we left the church. I've only ever heard the actual song about 3 times yet I know every bloody word. Because I'd hear my old man singing it every Saturday when I'd help him out on the milk round 😂😂

Never met the man but I like him. Thank you for doing a portrait of Steve!

When will u start uploading again

@DanYTfun

3 жыл бұрын

He probably no longer uses this channel, please check out his other channel.

Brilliant. I remember as a kid when I visited my Grandad in Tottenham seeing the electric milk trucks and wondering why we have had them in Canada. Thanks for this. Nice to know they are sill around.

Long time since Londonist made a video

Loving stories like these. Keep them coming.

This channel highlights the unique aspects of London, and makes it enjoyable.❤️🇬🇧

🥰 I am old enough to remember the Milk man floats back in the days🥰 Lovely to see this service is being revived. Thanks Milkman Steve🥰

Yes we have a milkman just started in my area ...nice to see Ernie back again..

@rjjcms1

4 жыл бұрын

His ghostly gold tops still rattle in a crate somewhere.

In my area, 1pint of milk in a glass bottle delivered is the same as going to the shop and getting a 4 pint of milk. I can't speak for all but if they weren't so expensive, I would be using milkmen. I don't mind paying a little bit extra but some of the companies are stupidly expensive.

So that's why I see that vehicle everyday outside my house. He operates in Wanstead (5 mins away from my house)

Plz come back londonist

@fenkupng

2 жыл бұрын

He uploads here now! kzread.info

Here in New Jersey, USA, my area is slowly seeing the return of the milkman. I never grew up with a milkman as a 2000s kid, however I had heard of them. We need them now more than ever, especially with a fair bit of countries having stay-at-home orders (which idiots don't follow the orders and have parties..). Mlkmen are crucial. Now more than ever. God bless y'all.

@ajs41

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know they ever had them in the USA. I thought it was just a British thing.

"Please no milk for the next 2 weeks as going on holiday. Thanks Milkman"

@jur4x

3 жыл бұрын

You do this trough the app nowadays :) Seriously, they have an app for milk delivery

REST IN PEACE LONDONIST

@ashftw1356

3 жыл бұрын

what happened to it??????? i havent been following

@giggabyte1075

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashftw1356 they stopped uploading 9 months ago

@ashftw1356

3 жыл бұрын

@@giggabyte1075 why? And without a farewell?

@giggabyte1075

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashftw1356 no one has any idea.. they just up and left

@ashftw1356

3 жыл бұрын

@@giggabyte1075 wow🤦‍♂️ what a way to end an amazing channel with quite a bit of subscribers

Good introspective, a really important business of old

I worked Saturdays from the age of around 7 to about 13 helping out local Express milkman and then briefly worked as an adult for them as well

Business must be booming even more so now with the quarantine/social distancing going on.

@jur4x

3 жыл бұрын

Got an email from them recently: "due to high demand, we can no longer guaranty delivery before 7am"

We use this dairy. We're in nearby Clayhall. Great to see a milkman in a electric vehicle on our roads.

Is this channel dead now then?

Hopefully running for another 100 years!!

What a lovely service & a wonderful man...love this video, hope there are more of this type to come!

I’ve always wanted to drive an old Leyland milk float

@xander1052

4 жыл бұрын

ngl does look like a good bit of fun

I used to help my dad on the milk round every Saturday from the age of 10 till about my mid 20s when he retired. I enjoyed it, I always got a free breakfast and my money to go watch Orient on Saturday. I wish I'd taken over from him when he retired in hindsight. Happy days!

Keep it Going Steve. What a Guy sault of the earth

I'm an Australian and we lived in Esher for a year in 1960-61 and one of my favourite memories is of the milkman and his milk float. We also had milkmen (and women) in Australia who were fondly known as the "milko", but they're pretty much all gone now.

What a beautiful film - timeless, full of respect and all that's good in the world. Steve's world is the antithesis of watching the television news.

That brings back memories of my dad who was a milkman for thirty years I grew up doing the round every Saturday. Have always kept our milkman even though at one time it was just two of us in our road. Now it’s going up. Which is great.

When I was a teenager I used to help my milk man in the school holidays. Leave a note the next day you got what you wanted. Supermarkets killed off milk men.

We have Steve as our milkman and he's always so friendly and hardworking, he always makes time to ask how our family are doing, everyone loves him round here!

Our local milkman was set to retire at 76.. then the pandemic hit and he went from 80 clients to over 500 in 2-3 weeks. He also offers fruit and vegetables. He's expanded to 3 trucks and more people keep signing up

ah the old milk float. childhood memories. happy to see this. best to ya mate!

Back in the 60's our London street was served by three different dairies, each having a different type and colour of milk float. United was orange and was a three wheeler; Express was blue; and also a three wheeler, the third was the Co-Op, a mainly white four wheeler. In the back of my mind I also remember green floats in the area, not sure who the dairy was.

Great video but shame to see some of the deliveries were still using plastic bottles. Hope that their business continues to thrive

@jur4x

3 жыл бұрын

They recently sent me an email that they can no longer guaranty delivery by 7am due to high demand.

The milk round must be the ultimate future ecology from the past: electric vehicle and zero waste reusing glass.

@jur4x

3 жыл бұрын

unfortunately, in my area they use vehicles built on diesel Ford Transit chassis (rear platform just like in the video, but with Transit cab at the front) for that. They do say they are buying new electric vehicles though. Just not in my area, at the moment.

Beautifully done. Thanks for this gem!

Hi, love the channel and why no new videos in almost 2 years? Is this channel dead?

Fantastic. I am so glad to see the return of the milkman!

It's wonderful to see someone still doing this.

What goes a’Round’ comes a’Round’ - May it long continue !

Nice to see the dignity in this work as opposed to online shoppers in the US that participate in the 'gig economy', lacking health benefits and such.

I see this milk float on the way to college sometimes. We always look out for him on our morning journey

I remember lying in bed when I kid dreading going to school and hearing the very distinctive whine of the milk float

My family were one of those who switched back to milkmen after David Attenboroughs big movement! It made us think about how much plastic we were producing and this is a great way to cut down our footprint! Granted, we use a different company (milk and more,) but it still amazing that there is a growth in sales again. Also, the fact they supply other amenities such as bread and eggs are also really useful! Especially when you can order them just before bed and it will be waiting for you in the morning! :D

Something a bit heartwarming about this. Good on you Steve, and all the others as well, delivery drivers, postmen, bin men... Good on you all...

What happened to your channel, is it dead

1:29 We had that same indicator/windscreen wiper/horn combination stalk on Dennis Dart buses, I think

Wonderful I grew up in Kings Cross and just like Steve used to do a paper round and help the milkman in the sixties when their was hundreds of milk floats it was hard work but bloody good fun especially delivering around the posh flats such as Queen Alexandra Mansions in Judd Street. Bring back the milkman everywhere i say,and as Steve does have them deliver groceries as well.

Brilliant video!

Why is this channel not active now ??

Brilliant video.

Our milk comes from a local farm. Staffordshire life! 🤣

Such a cute Little truck though!

That was great thanks.

Ahhh we love Steve, he’s our milkman too!! 💗💗

I wish they still done it around London

Who would possibly put a thumbs down to this great clip ?

In Shepherds Bush in the 70s when I was growing up , we had the Co Op Milkman come round everyday ...

Great article

Good to see the Milkman back in business. They faded away for a while, but I have seen a few, recently.

A service very much coming into it's own again. We started getting bottled milk delivered again about 5 years ago, around our way it's only 3 days a week and he turns up in a diesel float but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the electric milkfloat rides again.

I used to help the milkman 55 years ago Saturday mornings while I was still at school...still remember the electric milk float

Just love the way how this Ode to Joy being played in the background makes you feel like it is all about European Union ;)

A tradition that should be kept

It's a service that people should consider if they're struggling to get supplies delivered from the big supermarkets as many milk companies do groceries so if you're locked down in self isolation it's well worth signing up for delivery from your local milkman/woman

Come to Australia! Melbourne has the largest tram network in the world and Sydney has a Double Decker subway with around 14 underground stations. There's a lot of history here!

I feel sorry for the milkman who have to work during the Coronavirus crisis. But London still keeps on moving. Milkman do a wonderful job.

RIP this channel I guess, been 2 years

@TheClintonio

Жыл бұрын

Right? I've subbed to Geoff Marshall but I still liked this channel's general London culture stuff.

Across the road neighbour (WW2 Tail gunner!) still has milk delivered... Hear him every day at approx 2am!

Like the new video .Thanks

Every time at 1730 a 1976 milk float goes past my house to deliver milk to my neighbours.

We had milkmen in Toronto, Canada till the 1970s at least. Many houses had a milk delivery cupboard that could open from the outside and inside. My grandparents had one. So interesting that now people are talking about contactless delivery for groceries, take-away food, and supplies and regretting the loss of those boxes. Unfortunately I think they were doomed by cat burglers using them to break in and by people paying more attention to heat loss in the winter.

Helpful!!

Nice 👍👍👍

what camera did you use for this?

It is a great job indeed. Pity that there are not many these days

love it

Not had a milkman for maybe 30 years 😲 one memory of the milkman was sitting in a cafe in Romford Road, the milk man brought in a crate of milk bottles for the cafe, as he was doing it a group of kids appeared jumped aboard and one took the drivers seat and went off as fast as an old milk float could. Milkman gave chase as the milk float disappeared up the road. I’m little ashamed to say the incident was hilarious.

@albear972

4 жыл бұрын

Anti-social, chavvy behavior is always hilarious until it happens to you.

@richardwager283

4 жыл бұрын

albear972 this was in the days when chav meant kid rather than derogatory term for working class children 😜 maybe you have grown up in a different time to me 🤷🏼‍♂️ we used to play outside and get up to stuff, didn’t make us criminals nor the kids that pinched the milk float!

@nonamebill7421

2 жыл бұрын

My dad was a milkman, I used to help him out on a Saturday when I was younger and not working. One day he didn't come to pick me up at the time he usually did. And I couldn't get him on the phone either. I was starting to worry about him. Eventually he showed up 3 hours late with a new float. He was fuming. When I asked what was wrong. He told me some kids had nicked his float, and had crashed it right in the middle of a roundabout at the junction of Lower and Upper Clapton roads and Lea Bridge road in Hackney. Then It dawned on me, that's what must have caused the 2 mile long tail backs in North London that the travel correspondent mentioned on the radio. That I was listening to waiting for my dad to pick me up. He'd had to wait for the police to show up to tell them what had happened, get a lift back to Edmonton, pick up a new float and drive back to Hackney in a traffic jam to pick me up. Then do the 5 hours or so of work he should have almost finished by now. I found it hilarious, but then he just had to drop me off at the corner once I'd finished as my house was on the route that he served. He had to drive back to Edmonton in a milk float, in a traffic jam (that his float created). And then drive back to Cheshunt where he lived. Me and my brother's still laugh our arses off at it now about 15 years later. 😂😂

what happened to this channel

God bless him

Are you guys honna upload again. I miss your videos

Looking for one now

Milk allergy struck the channel

Nostalgia