The Old Co Op Dairy

[phill61]

 Does anyone remember the old dairy,in Charlotte rd opposite Stirchley School. I think it was used to park the floats up there.
 There was a ramp as you went up and on the side of the ramp was some bars,if you looked through you could see right through to the other side.

[breakaleg]

Hi Phill,
Think you will find that that was the garage there, (it's now Travis perkins) where they used to repair their vehicles, at stirchley school open day last November, there was a gent who apprenticed making cart wheels (as in horse and cart) Mick may still have some of the photos on site.
The dairy was where the co-op is now, I worked in the co-op when it first opened, and we never ran short of milk
Unless of course, someone knows better.
Pete

[phill61]

Ah yes i remember now i think it was the garage.I remember the old dairy itself on Ribblesdale rd and we would  watch the milk bottles going round and round. 

[Mick Jones]

Taken from co-ophistorian's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/co-ophistory/307006811/
Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-op dairy, Ribblesdale Rd, Stirchley, Birmingham. Opened 1910 and ceased production 1971, although still used as a milk distribution site until around 1997. This shot taken July 1991 and shows the old garage once taken over and used as a bottling plant, then back to a garage for milk floats.


Mick