Why British Farmers Left Their Milk at the Gate Every Morning

Before bulk milk tankers, every dairy farm in Britain sent its milk to market in steel milk churns, left on a churn stand at the farm gate for the churn lorry to collect each morning. This documentary follows a 1960s milk churn round through the lanes of Somerset: the drivers, the creamery, the milk trains to London and the Milk Marketing Board system that held it all together, and how the bulk tanker quietly replaced it within a generation. Do you remember a churn stand near you? Tell us in the comments. Visuals are illustrative reconstructions created for this documentary. #BritishLorryArchive #MilkChurns #BritishHistory