Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

Village milk now in bottles

They have gone on the bottle – the milk bottle – at Clovelly, for the village milk is no longer delivered from cans carried on a yoke.

6 February 1959 Can carrying over cobbles

Photographed above in his last week of yoke-carrying duties is Mr Peter Symons of Burnstone Farm. The young helper on the left is Jonathan Rowe, of High Street, Clovelly.

Gazette article 6 February 1959

 

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