Milk Bottles On The Step
Glass, foil tops, and blue tits getting to the cream first.
Daily doorstep delivery in glass pints, with a note in the empty for tomorrow's order.
The birds had worked out how to peck through the foil by the fifties and it spread across the country like a learned skill, because it was one.
In winter the cream froze and pushed the top up an inch. The electric float whined down the street at five in the morning and nobody minded.
Cost back then
10d a pint
Goes for now
Doorstep glass delivery is growing again, at around £1.30 a pint
