On 10/21/2010 9:26 PM, ivp wrote:
> Veronica Merryfield wrote :
>
>> helping deliver milk around the Portswood area, touching on
>> Swaythling and Highfield areas of Southampton
>
> Small world. I lived in Gosport for many years and went up that
> way often. My teacher was also an evening newsreader for Southern
> Television, as it was then, and a couple of us used to go up there with
> him now and then to hang out and be nuisances in the Northam studio
>
> He had a small sound studio in Portswood we visited a couple of
> times. One of his fascinating machines was a cutter for vinyl masters,
> which he'd used to make his own 7" singles. He must have known
> someone with a press. The one I really remember was The William
> Tell Overture made up from all sorts of sound effects
>
> In the summer we'd be strawberry picking around Netley and being
> perpetually late home
>
> sigh.......
>
> Joe

Although not from Portswood, I do remember the various neighborhood=20
vendors driving slowly up the street.  Vegetables, bakery, and of course=20
early in the morning, the dairy man delivering glass bottles of milk.=20
And yes, the cream did separate from the milk.

And in late summer, a truck going slowly with some one hollering "walla=20
melons, walla melons".

Back then the world came to your door.  Now, your door goes to the=20
world: Paypal, Amazon, Alibaba, ebay, etc.

One of my shirt tail relatives had a morning "paper route" - delivering=20
the morning newspaper on a bicycle door to door to the subscribers.  He=20
would look for people who also had dairy deliveries - they put a milk=20
bottle out with a note listing what to leave for the day.  Milk, cottage=20
cheese, etc.  He would add what he wanted and then go grab it before the=20
occupant awoke.  Now days, they would be labeled terrorists or something...

Ah, nostalgia. A pity it ain't what it used to be...
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