1980s Milkman | The Milkman | Milk Delivery | Seeing and Doing | 1981

'Seeing and Doing' presenter Dave Arthur takes a look at the Milkman - once a familiar sight on our streets!
Filmed in 1981
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[@jesuspobre88]

Feels like being in school in the 70's with a tv on a stand in front of the class.

[@richardwager283]

Finally I’ve seen my father....

[@pandora8478]

You must be my half brother!

[@heidiscott2770]

Wouldn't you like to meet rest of the family Lucky for me he's not related to me. DNA test proved not to be my father they call them the wrecker family I wish you all the best with him

[@xinam]

Ah... sun-warmed fresh milk!

[@Landie_Man]

I always remember it being ice cold. You’d get it in early.

[@andynixon2820]

At about this time I was 14 and did a Saturday morning milk round . The milk float permanently reeked of ancient milk that'd been out in the sun on a hot day . It's surprising we all lived through the 80s .

[@Landie_Man]

Andy Nixon I wasn’t born until 1990 but I remember having milk delivered through my childhood. Up to about 2015 when the family sold the business. They had electric floats, but it was always modern vans which came out my way.

[@andynixon2820]

@Abu Hajaar god you're right . It was essentially a good idea to give us kids some nutritious milk every day but it'd been out in the sun all day so tasted a bit rank by the time we got it . That nesquik idea was genius , well done .

[@ryszard68]

Usually the tits got to it before we did

[@McIntyreBible]

"People who live near you are called 'neighbors'" (0:34). I like that statement!

[@spankysmp]

I thought that was Robin Askwith for a minute and what's is he doing on a kids programme?

[@jesuspobre88]

Confessions of a milkman?😂

[@RickP2012]

Same here. I was expecting the scene to end with him entering the house and the bedroom curtains being shut

[@AB-kx4nc]

Same as that.

[@danentwisle8885]

I had the very same thought

[@heidiscott2770]

Which one? I wasn't talking about getting the woman a belting and 10 divorced milkman wives you misunderstood what you was reading. Your welcome It is a children's programme

[@finnmanproductions9240]

About 10 years ago when I was still having my milk delivered like this, someone started stealing it from my doorstep! Police eventually caught the thieves. Some young lads were driving around in the early morning taking it from houses in the area. Having a boot full of milk bottles at 5am was no doubt a bit hard to explain. Was it really worth it? People steal anything that´s not nailed down these days.

[@heidiscott2770]

Some don't get away with quite so much do they!

[@AlexxGamboa]

blast from the past

[@fidelcatsro6948]

bill gates was making strange logic probe machines in his backyard back then...

[@heidiscott2770]

What there's another one lol

[@PlanetImo]

That takes me back! I loved the simplicity of broadcasts back then. Very enchanting.

[@craigstratford5086]

A young Pat Mustard off on his rounds !

[@andynixon2820]

And all the babies in the district had bushy side burns or moustaches .

[@Theocracy8]

Well the 'milkman routine' is becoming a rarity in big cities therefore for some people this video might be very exotic and insightful. I certainly haven't seen a milkman in a long time.

[@scook2003]

Very informative

[@ltj18taylor73]

LOL

[@pandora8478]

I remember my mum leaving coins on the doorstep for the milkman.

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Where is Ernie?

[@davidmann8254]

Ah, you forgot his contretemps with Ton up Ted from Teddington. ( he drove the bakers van)

[@heidiscott2770]

On my page

[@uhavemooface]

I remember seeing these milk bottles at my mom and dad's house here in California. It was so awesome seeing the milkman coming to our house and dropping and picking up milk bottles. We would get them probably every other day or two. Maybe three days.

[@heidiscott2770]

Not quick fit with trainer's

[@Phil-yn1er]

Bring back the milk man & glorify the child bearing house wife!

[@heidiscott2770]

What about the psychiatric staff don't we need them these days Suppose everyone had more than enough patients and these days all have just gone off and doing their thing. Don't you think close to Maudsley would of been better filming god this is years old.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

I could be mistaken, but I thought that someone who was like a Mod, or a father, once made an observation in a bit of musical commentary about a particular municipality, in which large quantities of vehicles dedicated to the haulage of dairy products were being idled, underutilized and retired to a certain type of property, and shaking off their mechanical mortal coil... or something like that. 😉 Seriously, though - I miss milkmen. My folks had home delivery here in the States in the '70s/very early '80s, and our local dairy (in Tacoma) used Divcos - one of the best-looking commercial vehicles ever designed. It was a dark day when those were retired, almost as much as when the milk stopped appearing magically on the front porch, placed in a little insulated metal box.

[@richards9407]

That was very informative.

[@heidiscott2770]

What was you doing sat with the Thesaurus Thanks for involving me and the information It was good to watch and was good read the gossip was excellent.

[@marcelorozengurt4432]

please check if you can upload the full program

[@xinam]

Hey Fremantle: when are you going to release The World At War on digital? I’d buy it in an instant. (As long as it was the 4:3 version!)

[@schinaro]

Thanks!

[@robdubz1510]

Saw a bottle outside a house today, most people get it from their local supermarkets, most milkmen have to deliver food or amazon packages to survive now.

[@heidiscott2770]

Our road used to get a lot go up and down not so much these days This is filmed just across the from Hollymoor psychiatric hospital (Lower Beeches and Raven Hayes Road Northfield Birmingham)

[@Ohhhoneyyy]

Seeing and doing

[@79devo]

Except Saturday morning near The Dell in the 70s .... Our milkman was regularly robbed of milk eggs and bread by the visiting football hooligans who didn't consume the stuff. They just threw it around the street. Quite funny to see as a teenager but not do much for Don the Unigate Milky

[@presidentelectzigenpuss3570]

Insightful

[@alisonwilliams4862]

Well, that was informative! 😃

[@simontemplarfilms8974]

The Milkman is still going strong early morning Milkman delivers Fresh Milk

[@BossySwan]

0:36 favourite Australian soap

[@RoadCone411]

Am I the only one that wants to breakout into Aha’s “The Living Daylights” when I see a milkman like this?

[@fasthracing]

Nope just you.

[@RoadCone411]

@@fasthracing Ah, that's what I thought.

[@SRPC21]

People who live near us are called “neighbours”!? 🤯

[@CamcorderSteve]

That's 58 seconds of my life wasted, plus the preceding advert. Nothing happened!!

[@fasthracing]

WTF were you expecting?

[@CamcorderSteve]

@@fasthracing What a very good question fastracing and thank you for posing the question. I expected a front door to open and a beautiful blonde lady garbed in a see through negligee to pick the milk bottles up and to invite the milkman in for a cup of tea. It happened all the time in the 1980s, it was a perk of my job, so sad when it all came to an end. It took me three hours to do my round, but I got great job satisfaction.

[@fasthracing]

@@CamcorderSteve Like your style

[@seantw79]

WTF!!!!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

at least back then milk was from healthy non gmo grain or grass fed cow origin.....or was it?

[@achmadtete5182]

Who can give me job as milk man?

[@heidiscott2770]

You know how many milkman there are why pick that one. What type of work do you think he did before?? Suppose it was something about the area Town and village

[@BossySwan]

Electric vehicle No plastic Where the hell did we go so wrong?

[@leenevin8451]

......................and people who live near you are neighbours.

[@koont666]

And the point of that WAS

[@Theocracy8]

Nostalgia

[@koont666]

I'm well aware ,that's why I watched it,but so short,that's all.

[@avalonjustin]

What Britain was like before the muslims took over. Soon relegated to memory...

[@heidiscott2770]

Some was expecting a blonde I wasn't expecting I was thinking in the bedroom fit and shorts(P45) Bet the males in the family have had their fun What size cup did you get for the milk Did it come straight from a cow and did Linda measure it for you?the milk I was on about You think uncle Alan train's them do you?? That's near Dill and Tom's I used to get my welsh cakes Alan was getting a refund of the estate party.

[@grantherson9993]

So gross

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Puro milk 🍼 disgusting stuff

[@justinstaines997]

Crap absolutely rubbish

[@heidiscott2770]

It's totally disgusting drink drugs sex parties strip nights Did they check the full background before filming it's certainly not what I would if put on a kids children's programme I'd of suspended them all before showing it. Different people are suited to different things perhaps adult porn movie filming may of been a better idea for him not for school use Kid's don't get porn magazines to work from in schools do they not with cock hard the child friendly milkman Keep the kids some dirty nights of sex when and where was this filmed They wanted me to have a operation once I said consultant connected to that you get lost too much running around I think.