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Milk Bottles

We have photographs of a few local dairymen's milk bottles. If you have a bottle for any other Rushden dairymen, we'd be pleased to get a photograph, and also for information about their businesses.

The three above are pint bottles and the two left are half pint bottles. They have wide tops and the glass used was much thicker than today's bottles.

Below a card top.

⅓ pint printed bottles
Abbott's Dairy

1960s - pint printed bottles
milk bottle logo
C Summerfield & Son bottle and detail from a pressed glass milk bottle

Photograph by Dan Brownsword

Abbotts Dairy was founded in 1897.

John Willmott farmed at Manor Farm in Bedford Road, and also had a shop in High Street.

George Willmott farmed at Home Farm, Knuston.

The Co-operative Society had Dial Farm in Bedford Road.

Northern Dairies was established by buying up the smaller businesses.

Summerfield's Dairy was founded at Melchbourne, and came to Rushden just before WWII. Later they moved to Irthlingborough.

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