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Cor, that brings back memories. 1/4 pint I think, full cream. These days itâd be considered tantamount to child cruelty but it never did me any harm (and I wonât get osteoporosis).
As ever, it depends on the auto/ semi-auto you get. Some are fine: others, however, not so much. Isuzu AMT for a start - be glad youâve never had the opportunity (yelling at the thing helps blow off steam, but it doesnât make the thing any less chuffing frustrating).
And the daily dose of cod liver oil, yuk, I think the teachers used the same spoon for the whole call. And I never saw them having a spoonful of b loody cod liver oil. 
You havenât seen where I work.
When I was in primary school in Scotland we were told to swallow that teaspoon - I paled at it, probably cos Iâm English.
Groundhog Day
Would happily drive that along the A10 in the day.At least mid Summer.
What youâd drive an AEC with a short stroke bus engine CF???
I suppose one question is: when were they scrapped? And the follow-on: who scrapped them?
Thereâs a separate forum for arguments (such as they are) about politics, but I will say there are inefficiencies in both nationalised and so-called âfree marketâ industries.
A third of a pint they were, I was the milk monitor at school,.those crates were bloody heavyâŚit would be child cruelty today.
It was Maggie Thatch who stopped the milk for kids as a govt minister, I remenber my Mam calling her âThatcher the milk snatcherâ.
Never heard of the cod liver oil thing though.
I remember the sweet tin going around on a Fri afternoon at primary school as a treat, but you only got one if you had been good all week.
I NEVER got one though funnily enoughâŚI was a bit of a little #### even in those days,
Yep, hard to believe I know
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Third of a pint milk bottles were provided free of charge throughout primary and secondary schools. They were introduced as a result of children turning up to school with rickets in the '30s. Maggie phased out the secondary provision first. I do remember that the milk was refreshing and welcome in winter but could go off a bit in summer if the crates were left in the sunshine.
You could also get third of pint orange juice off the milkman. They were nice!
The codliver oil came in flat flasks and you had to get those from the WVS (Womenâs Voluntary Service) shops. Families were entitled to free supplies with so many (I think 4 or more) children. They were not served in English schools when I was that age - not where I lived anyway. Maybe boarding schools did. You could also get âwelfare orangeâ from the WVS in the same flat flasks for extra vitamin C.
Yes, we had to have a spoonful of that cod liver oil stuff from Mam regular along with those Fennings Lung Healer tablets & Witch hazel for bumps & bruises. Are those items from the 50/60âs still a thing?
The school milk tasted 'orrible in Summer when it was left outside to warm up before being given out.
Music lessons back then consisted of just a recorder, all the mouthpieces were put in a glass tank filled with industrial grade disinfectant, I can still smell & taste that stuff to this day, It was disgusting.
I donât remember cod liver oil on a spoon, but do seem to remember bright red capsules being given out at school. It was that summat else?
Iâm not saying yours is good Park Royal but trust me we are on another level from top to bottom owned funnily enough by an Australian bank and run by Irish. Itâs a total joke. We have tablets to work with so our âplannerâ doesnât have to ring with our next job but he cannot be arsed to put the job on so we have to ring him.We get H&S courses on the tablet regular that we watch and sign to say we fully understand then they break every rule.Only a few weeks back i was overloaded by a quarter of a ton and the âsupervisorâ told me it was ok to take it which then turned into a massive argument.This is just the tip of an iceberg which is definitely melting.We are going down like Thames Water⌠thereâs a link there
When I was at Primary school the milk monitors in the Winter used to put the 1/3 pint bottles around the base of the upright coke heater to either thaw it out or warm it up. the heaters had a metal grill surround to protect the kids and teachers from getting burned and that was circa 1955, just look at the size of that tin of quality street in that picture, they sure have shrunk over the years,
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I certainly remember bottles of milk on the doorstep pushing up the foil lid as the contents froze.
A school woodwork project was to make a bottle holder with a top to prevent birds from pecking at the foil caps.
The old daysâŚfree milk, frosts, birdsâŚ
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Pretty sure we got â
pint here, delivered between 9.30 and 11.00 by the local milko, to be consumed at little lunch between 11.00 and 11.15.
I always hung around the milk crate, in case there were spares.
To this day I drink 2 litres plus, of milk a day, so should be safe from osteoporosis, maybe not overbrittle bones.
Hell I used to dread it, but itâs got me to 85 years old. 
Times were hard after WW2, but our parents did well for us, I never went short of a meal. How the hell they juggled Ration Books remains a mystery.
My mother always managed, every Friday, to get a huge fillet of haddock for us, best meal of the week.
Happy (but hard) days.
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