In the days before milk bottles, customers brought their own jugs and cans to be filled with milk. The Devonshire Dairy in Royal Hill, Greenwich, may have sold milk brought from Devon by train early every morning. A few local dairies still kept cows in the yards behind their shops.

Unique ID: H2820
Creator: R. Sims of King Street, Greenwich (from the Charles Spurgeon Collection)
Date: 1885
Copyright: Out of Copyright