The whole milk float topic got me remembering too. At age 13 I started work=
ing Saturdays helping deliver milk around the Portswood area, touching on S=
waythling and Highfield areas of Southampton. Started at 5.30am, finished a=
bout 2pm and got paid a quid. I spent it all on electronics - designing and=
 making analogue synthesizers. By the end of the round, the float was runni=
ng pretty slowly. Had a couple of steep hills to climb which I would someti=
mes get out and walk. The round was arranged such that we were carrying as =
many empties as possible without having to double back on ourselves. I reme=
mber once that a axle broke under the load of one of the hills on Christmas=
 Eve - always a very busy day for the milkman but the tips were good :)

I did the round for about 2 years before moving to working Saturdays at an =
electronics store. The 50% discounted on parts and 14 quid pay ramped up my=
 rate of making stuff :)

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On 2010-10-21, at 2:01 PM, ivp wrote:

>> Not only did we have the RACS (never let Unigate darken the
>> doorstep) deliver the milk, there was also Clark's the bakers with
>> his large wicker basket and fantastically hot (as in spicy) ginger
>> cake (all in electric vehicles).
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> My very first 'job' was helping dad's neighbour do his Sunday
> morning milk round in rural Saltash (Cornwall). I was about 6
> and got paid in orange juice and currant buns. Wouldn't mind
> being 6 again once in a while
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> In my early teens I delivered groceries, Granville-style, on a shop
> bike made from some sort of super-dense lead I think ;-)) , with the
> big wicker basket up front and everything else in cardboard boxes
> tied on with hairy white string. No doubt I delivered exotic spicy
> Jamaican j-j-j-j-ginger cake
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> Try telling that to the kids today ......
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