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Description: | This is Cheyne Walk on the Chelsea Embankment, seen looking east from Cheyne Row. A short narrow hand-cart is parked on the corner. It was possibly used for milk deliveries: it holds a number of empty bottles and two cans.
At this time, milk bottles were comparatively new. Previously milk had been unpasteurised and delivered in open churns. The change was partly due to the switch from 'urban dairies', which delivered to the local neighbourhood, to large dairy companies such as the Express Dairy Co, which delivered milk by rail.
One 16-year-old earned 19 shillings for a seven-day week, 51 weeks a year, pushing a milk barrow. It was heavy work, since a barrow could hold about 150 bottles of milk. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Cityscape Work | Temporal: | 1 Jun 1923 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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