Just wondering if people still used milk checks and milk deliveries ? i suppose with all the cars and supermarket shops now people tend to pick up their own milk.

We use to buy them from the stores, thats the only place i remember selling them.

The milkman still does his rounds on our street, but we're guilty of buying supermarket plastic cartons

Remember milk checks too - they came from the stores because they delivered the milk - and I seem to recall that the price used to change part way through the year - a bit more expensive in summer than in winter? or possibly the other way round? Ages since I can remember anyone talking about the 'stores' - is that an expression still used in Sheffield? I've never known it anywhere else. For those who may not understand, it's the co-op shops - B & C or S & E. We lived in the part of the city that was B & C - can still remember our number. You could always go in an S & E shop and give your B & C number but if you said you'd got a B & C number they often looked a bit disapproving.

I don't remember S&E but we did go to Brightside & Carbrook
lovely big wedges of cheese sliced right off the block.

i think the milk checks had another colour change, some black ones circulated at one time, don't know what those ones were for.

i have milk delivered to my house, i must be the only one in our town that does it, now it's just billed direct on to my credit card, bit more expensive but well worth it, worth it alone just to walk passed the milk section in the super market with my nose up !

I still have milk delivered to the door, but that's mostly because we qualify for free milk for the baby (7 pints a week, we get a paper milk token for it) until she is five.
After that I shall go back to buying it from the supermarket, it's cheaper!

How do you qualify for free milk ?

My mum still has milk delivered to her in Fulwood from a local farmer. She buys milk checks from the Coop. However, it's more expensive so she also buys cartons from the store too. She keeps buying milk from the milkman because she hates the thought that they could go out of business if people stop patronizing them. She used to have eggs delivered too but that farmer quit that because of competition from supermarkets.
It's because of the Aldis, the Nettos and the other cheap European supermarkets that local businesses are losing customers. Can't blame the customers who want to save money though!

My mum buys milk checks to pay for her milk delivery, they are still available in Sheffield from main Co Op in town and some independant local stores as most of the local Co Op's have long since closed down.

The current ones in circulation are a turquoise / light blue in colour, but remember seeing them in yellow, orange and green. They work out about 46p per pint I think.

They rotated the coloured checks when the price of the milk went up at various times in the year, I remember the milkman banging at the door demanding 1p because we had put out old tokens.

I think my folks still get milk delivered from Mosley's farm (Stannington).

However, most of their milk supply now comes from Morrison's.

poppins,
people on benefits and child tax credit (us) are eligible for free milk for babies under five.
You get a milk token and can exchange it for formula milk for babie's bottles or, when they get older, one pint a day which the milkman will deliver. I think you can take your milk token into the supermarket and buy 7 pints in one go also.
Once your baby is over five then it stops, or once you no longer qualify for any kind of benefit.

I once worked in a Co-Op dairy [bottling plant] and the poor girl who was cashier for the day used to have to wear surgeon's gloves for receiving the cash and tokens from the milkmen. Amazing the number of people who would drop their tokens or money into the bottom of unwashed milk bottles, the tokens and money had to be washed in disinfectant and dried before it could be sorted and bagged.

Do you mean 'milk tokens'? Little plastic discs like toy money?

Maybe we used to call them milk tokens cos mum and dad came from Bradford - milk checks could be a Sheffield thing.

We also had a subtley different pronunciation of the word 'Co-Op'. Cos while Sheffielders always say it as it's written - 2 words, Co and Op - we pronounced it as one word - Cwop. I've always blamed that on mum and dad's Bradford origins too!

Gosh, fascinating. ;)

we get out il delievered from flewitts in Stannington!!!
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Originally posted by steelcitybab
we get out il delievered from flewitts in Stannington!!!
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Flewitts ! is the owner called David ? think mom had them when she lived in Stannington, he delivered to the Manor house for old people, i'm sure he still does as they don't get out much .

anyone remember the co_op divident stamps

Originally posted by Funke88
My mum still has milk delivered to her in Fulwood from a local farmer. She buys milk checks from the Coop. However, it's more expensive so she also buys cartons from the store too. She keeps buying milk from the milkman because she hates the thought that they could go out of business if people stop patronizing them. She used to have eggs delivered too but that farmer quit that because of competition from supermarkets.
It's because of the Aldis, the Nettos and the other cheap European supermarkets that local businesses are losing customers. Can't blame the customers who want to save money though!

I think it's also because of Tesco, Sainsburys and Asda as well, which are British, much more widespread and have a greater market share in the UK than Aldi, Lidl and Netto. We can't always blame Europe for everything!

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The "stores". That brings back memories: my gran always used to say it. I remember the B&C om Gower Street and on Scott Road.

I also once worked at the Social one uni holiday on the sick benefit desk. I often forgot to include the milk tokens on the giro.

Memories!

I can remeber my Mam's B&C number from the late 40s,I can also remeber our next door neighbours number.But I can never remember my sons Birthday dates

Yes, milk checks still going....
I always get stuck in the Co-op queue behind the old sod who wants to buy 14, and insists on them being counted twice and then put in a bank change bag.....
****** me off.......

my mom used to get milk checks from stores off wordsworth ave near ritz had to go there cos you got 'divi' I remember queing round the Mount Tabor church to collect the 'divi'

forgot to say can still remember the check no, you were also given a little yellow slip of paper after you paid

Originally posted by poppins
Just wondering if people still used milk checks and milk deliveries ? i suppose with all the cars and supermarket shops now people tend to pick up their own milk.

We use to buy them from the stores, thats the only place i remember selling them.
i dont know if thy are stiil used
i delivered milk when i left schooll in 1944 thy were brass at that
time

Originally posted by old_granny
anyone remember the co_op divident stamps

Hiya old_granny!

I remember them, although I was a bit young to be using them. But I remember them coming out of a big machine when you paid, little ones and big ones, and my mom letting me stick them in the book.

How do you go about getting your milk delivered. I never see the milkman down our road although i believe we do have one.

I don't remember S&E but we did go to Brightside & Carbrook
lovely big wedges of cheese sliced right off the block.

i think the milk checks had another colour change, some black ones circulated at one time, don't know what those ones were for.

i have milk delivered to my house, i must be the only one in our town that does it, now it's just billed direct on to my credit card, bit more expensive but well worth it, worth it alone just to walk passed the milk section in the super market with my nose up !

I worked at the S&E at Heeley from 1959 to 1964. The milk checks were black and then red when the price went up by a halfpenny half way through the year. The yellow ones were for Channel Island Milk and the pale blue, which had to accompany a black or red check, was for steralised milk, that horrible stuff in the tall bottles.
Back then we handled hundredweight barrels of danish butter and big slabs of lard which all had to be weighed. Bacon all had to be boned and sliced on site and the ham split from the side of bacon. Cheese came wrapped in wax cloth and was cut by wires. Old folk came in to buy two ounces of butter and one rasher of bacon and for those with large orders we did a home delivery service every Thursday.
Pipe tobacco was weighed as was yeast which was wrapped in greasproof made into cone bags by our own fair hands. Sugar, and most other dry goods were also weighed and it took two people all week to keep abreast of demand. The best part was the cash carriers.. we had a lot of fun with them. The butcher sometimes sent the cashier bits of a beast giving her a terrible scare. Oh happy days !!!

When I delivered newspapers in 1955, I would take milk tokens out of my mums jar, & if anyone left money out for milk I would swap it for tokens.
One day I left quite a few tokens outside a house & got caught as they had the Express dairy who insisted on cash and not the Co-op milko who used tokens, [Lesson Learned]