Things that time forgot.

[jean]

But you don't put your milk bottles out with the ordinary recycling - the milkman collects them when he delivers the next lot, and takes them back to the dairy to be refilled. Just as he always did!

It's worth every penny.

[mangerton]

What nobody has now is is the wide-necked ones, with cardboard tops - the tops had a circular hole in the middle and you put two together, wound wool through the hole and round the edge and back again until the hole was full. Then you cut through the wool at the edge and tied it round the centre between the two discs and trimmed it, thus creating an exquisite pompom.

Yes, they were all the rage amongst my female classmates in primary school. (We were dreadfully sexist then; no boy would have been seen dead....etc, although I once knitted a kettle holder when in the cubs.)

I do remember "milk coming frozen home in bottles" on the door step during some very cold Scottish winters.

[LeMartinPecheur]

One treasured memory of 'school milk' was pressing on the silver cap and the bottom falling right off the bottle! By amazing coincidence - I don't usually get that lucky - I was holding it over the bucket provided for collecting all the foil caps, so no mess on the ancient polished parquet floor of the school hall
...

...otherwise I'd probably still be there, clearing up the glass and milk and re-polishing the whole floor under the beady eye of a prefect!

[ahinton]

But you don't put your milk bottles out with the ordinary recycling - the milkman collects them when he delivers the next lot, and takes them back to the dairy to be refilled. Just as he always did!

It's worth every penny.

But, as I pointed out earlier, there is no milkman (or milkwoman), so any glass bottles of which I need to dispose, whatever they may have contained when full, have to go into the ordinary recycling. As a matter of fact (and for what it may or may not be worth), I've not lived any place where there's been a doorstep delivery of milk for more years than I can remember, but certainly at least 30.

[Richard Tarleton]

Does anyone remember Classics Illustrated? I thought about them while listening to Posy Simmonds being interviewed about graphic novels on the Today programme. I read several of them aged about 7 or 8 - "Swiss Family Robinson", "The Red Badge of Courage" and several more.....

[jean]

But, as I pointed out earlier, there is no milkman (or milkwoman)...

If that's the case, then (as I pointed out earlier) nothing I've said about how glass milk bottles are in fact recycled applies to your situation at all!

[P. G. Tipps]

But not Liverpool Exchange, nor Liverpool Central (High Level) which carried Cheshire Lines trains to Manchester Central (also no longer in existence).

(Liverpool Lime Street recently underwent the most splendid restoration - all the excrescences Time had stuck onto its frontage have been removed. It looks wonderful.)

That sounds really great and tallies with the experience of other major stations in the UK which have been completely transformed, not least due to financial support from the EU.

Just a minor factual consideration before ...

[ahinton]

If that's the case, then (as I pointed out earlier) nothing I've said about how glass milk bottles are in fact recycled applies to your situation at all!

Why so? Do milk delivery staff have a mponopoly on glass milk bottles?

The point about recycling of glass bottles is in any case surely a far wider issue than just about milk bottles; if glass milk bottles can be re-used rather than smashed in general bottle recycling, one might assume that all glass bottles could - and therefore perhaps should - be so re-used, although I don't see any likelihood of that!

Anyway, out here, one's lucky to get timely delivery of anything that's not been ordered in advance online and brought by a courier (including items put in the "ordinary(?)" mail), never mind milk in any kinds of bottle!

[ahinton]

That sounds really great and tallies with the experience of other major stations in the UK which have been completely transformed, not least due to financial support from the EU.

Just a minor factual consideration before ...

...UK leaves in a barrage (or Farage) of acrimony? God (or someone) forbid (as doubtless they will)!

[jean]

Why so? Do milk delivery staff have a monopoly on glass milk bottles?

Presumably they do, since no-one else collects or delivers them, and they remain the property of the dairy.

If they are for sale in shops anywhere, they need to be returned there.

The point about recycling of glass bottles is in any case surely a far wider issue than just about milk bottles; if glass milk bottles can be re-used rather than smashed in general bottle recycling, one might assume that all glass bottles could - and therefore perhaps should - be so re-used...

One does assume that. But the best must not be the enemy of the good.

[anotherbob]

Yes, they were all the rage amongst my female classmates in primary school. (We were dreadfully sexist then; no boy would have been seen dead....etc, although I once knitted a kettle holder when in the cubs.

At my primary school we all made pom poms. The card milk bottle tops were also used in a playground game in which they were "flirted" at a wall. The player whose top finished closest to the wall won all of the other tops. Sometimes we played the same game with cigarette cards.

[EdgeleyRob]

Not forgotten - they arrive regularly on my doorstep!

And here too !

Doesn't taste the same out of a plastic bottle.

[P. G. Tipps]

And here too !

Doesn't taste the same out of a plastic bottle.

Yup, just like a pint of Stella?

All those effeminate-looking foreign things with stems ... give me a proper straight British glass any day!

[Stanfordian]

Packs of 5 cigarettes ideal for school children

[subcontrabass]

Manchester Central (also no longer in existence).

The building is still there: http://www.manchestercentral.co.uk/