In Pictures: Delivering milk down the New Row
THE first photograph in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane shows how milk was delivered to people's doorsteps before the days of supermarkets. Gordon Fraser recalls some of the pitfalls of this type of delivery: “My brother was a milkman with the Co-op and as a teenager, I used to help him deliver the milk at weekends and school holidays by means of horse and cart. It was an early-morning start and we delivered around Izatt Avenue and Nethertown. One of my fond memories is of us going down the New Row, a steep hill which needed you to keep the brake on the cart to stop it...
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