| Forename |
Surname |
Dairy |
Sales address |
Established
|
| Frank |
Abbott |
|
|
|
| A E |
Abbott & Son |
|
29 Queen Street |
1897
|
| R |
Clark |
Homedale Farm (purchased wholesale from Summerfields) |
181 Bedford Road |
|
| Fred |
Collins |
Rectory Farm (Newton Road)
later supplied by wholesaler |
182 Wellingborough Road |
1903
|
| |
Co-op Society |
Dial Farm (Milk supply - Newton Road) |
Bedford Road |
|
| Ralph |
Dickens |
Park Farm |
Irchester Road |
|
| B C |
Groom |
|
20 Washbrook Road |
|
| Ken |
Hodgkins |
(started by W Hodgkins, then Horace) |
'Yeldenia' Newton Road |
|
| Albert |
Holley |
|
Newton Road |
|
| J W "Bill" |
Houghton |
smallholding near Sanders Lodge |
42 Crabb Street |
|
| N |
King |
|
Newton Road |
|
| Reg |
Mortimer |
|
Newton Road |
|
| Auber |
Smith |
|
Robinson Road |
|
| E |
Smith |
|
Bedford Road |
|
| Don |
Summerfield |
|
Griffith Street |
|
| A |
Waller |
|
Wymington Road |
|
| Edward |
Warren |
|
|
|
| Charles |
Warrington |
smallholding |
Avenue Rd, Court Estate |
|
| John |
White |
(not retail - for works only) |
Kimbolton Road |
|
| Alfred |
Willmott |
Blousic Dairy |
Wellingborough Road |
|
| George |
Willmott |
Home Farm |
Knuston |
|
| George |
Willmott |
(supplied by John Willmott) |
High Street |
|
| John |
Willmott |
Manor Farm |
Bedford Road |
|
| By the 1960s things began to change. Milk was then available in the new supermarkets and gradually over the next 20 years the dairymen were finding it harder to survive. Some sold out to regional or national companies, others retired and a few survived. |
