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Hi Gang,
Can anyone remember years ago in Primary school when you got a 1/3 bottle of milk every morning, I can't remember but was there a straw given to drink your milk or as I remember just sliding the metal lid off [ and spinning it through the air like a flying saucer, as long as the teacher wasn't watching !!]. I know the milk allocation was stopped later on [Thatcher the milk snatcher ?]. Does anyone remember drinking the milk ?.

Then in the Winter sometimes the water pipes for the school toilets would freeze over and couldn't be used, so your teacher would say boys and girls school has been cancelled for today= to a great cheer from all us young pupils and us boys immediately got the football out but the "Janny" would tell you that you have to go home. That we didn't do that [most of the boys anyway] as we wanted to play "Fitba" so we played it in our local street. Yes happy days of yesterday.

Danny

The bottles that I remember had round cardboard press-on caps with a round centre piece that you pressed in so that you could insert the straw that was supplied with the milk.

I know for sure that in the 40's the bottles had cardboard tops. This photo from the 60's shows one with the aluminium flying saucer type cap easily pierced by a straw!

Hi All
There was nothing to beat your milk drinking from a wee bottle with the straw I still love milk to this day.
In fact last time I saw a glass bottle of milk it was a couple of years ago and you don't see any delivery vans.
I used to get my milk delivered when I came up to Castlemilk and you always got the dirty S...e who stole it from outside your door and you still had to pay the milkman when he came up for his money.

Even buying a glass bottle of Limeade, Irn Bru or lemonade it's a different taste from the plastic bottles.
I can think back to when I was young and my ma would send me over to the dairy in Cumberland St. called McIndoes and they had the metal containers and you brought over a jug and she filled it up they had different measuring jugs when filling ours.
Thanks for the photos Jimbo
Amelia x

Amelia, I think I mentioned somewhere that the dairy in Hallside street also used to measure out the milk from metal canisters.

Jimbo wrote:

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I know for sure that in the 40's the bottles had cardboard tops. This photo from the 60's shows one with the aluminium flying saucer type cap easily pierced by a straw!

Hi Jimbo,
Thanks for this photo and all the others that you post too mate, it does make a difference to the matter being discussed when you see an image pertaining to the subject.
Regards.
Danny

Hi all,

I remember getting the wee bottle of milk at school with the foil top and we got a straw as well. Wasn't a big fan of milk so the teacher would always get after me and tell me to drink it or else! Wish I had been brazen enough to ask or else what? Do not recall being sent home from school because of frozen pipes so I feel really ripped off about that. I also think liquid from glass bottles tasted much better than anything from plastic. Cheers, Sheila

I, too, remember taking a jug to Nisbett's dairy on Sandyfaulds Street and there was a measuring cup hanging to the side of the big steel container of milk...It just have been a cup measure because you got so many cupfuls all depending on the amount you wanted...Mr. Nisbett also made the best rolls and cakes you could ever want...He gave out "tick" (credit) and wrote in his wee book what you bought and then when you got paid at the weekend, you went in and paid him...He was a lifeline to the people on our street..He passed away not long after his shop was closed and the building came down...He lived in Mount Florida and was there in his shop every morning at six o'clock...God Rest him...Margaret

margaretmcgettigan wrote:I, too, remember taking a jug to Nisbett's dairy on Sandyfaulds Street and there was a measuring cup hanging to the side of the big steel container of milk...It just have been a cup measure because you got so many cupfuls all depending on the amount you wanted...Mr. Nisbett also made the best rolls and cakes you could ever want...He gave out "tick" (credit) and wrote in his wee book what you bought and then when you got paid at the weekend, you went in and paid him...He was a lifeline to the people on our street..He passed away not long after his shop was closed and the building came down...He lived in Mount Florida and was there in his shop every morning at six o'clock...God Rest him...Margaret

Hi Margaret,
Yes the wee shops were a lifeline for us people in the soo-side where you could get "tick" till the end of the week and everybody knew each other, you could always have a good oul chin-wag when you paid a visit to your wee local shop, same as the Pawn shop Margaret that was another life line till you got paid. Then these new supermarkets came along but it just wasn't the same.
Regards.
Danny

Granny911 wrote:Hi all,

I remember getting the wee bottle of milk at school with the foil top and we got a straw as well. Wasn't a big fan of milk so the teacher would always get after me and tell me to drink it or else! Wish I had been brazen enough to ask or else what? Do not recall being sent home from school because of frozen pipes so I feel really ripped off about that. I also think liquid from glass bottles tasted much better than anything from plastic. Cheers, Sheila

Hi Shelia,
I went to wee Bonnies and the school toilets being outside were always prone to having their water pipes freezing over, this was great for us weans and the cheer that went up when your teacher said no school today was as loud as the Hampden Roar !!!!!!, yes I agree liquid does taste better from glass as opposed to plastic. I have drank in a few "trouble" pubs here in London over the years and they used plastic pint containers and it just wasn't the same [YUK]
Regards.
Danny