Kenton Bar Celebrities Pre-1988 - Dave The Milkman
The hardest working person I have ever met – ran everywhere. Used to come around the estate on a Friday night collecting the milk money and deliver milk, to the doorstep, come rain, sleet or snow – without fail. I bet the days of door to door money collecting are long gone now?
My mum and sisters used to peddle a tale that he was Sting’s brother – no idea if true – does Sting have a brother?
Coming soon the “The Potato Boy” and “The Pools Man” followed swiftly by the “Provvy Woman”.
What you mean'fear of thuggish types from the bottom'...In our day also Master, these fell creatures lurked. Actually I seem to recall that they didnt drink milk down the bottom, only a specific brand of pop whos name escapes me delivered by the pop man-there's another KB celebrity you forgot and need to write about Master!
ReplyDeleteCan you remember the 'Kentrala' van (a mobile shop) that used to come onto the estate?. I'm sure the bloke who owned it was Polish or something.
ReplyDeleteYes - I remember Ken Tarala. The van was a red one with a diagonal beige stripe with the words "Ken Tarala" written on them. Yes he was polish and a war refugee I think. Him and my Dad used to get on like a house on fire and whenever the van cam into our street AND Dad was at home Ken and my Dad used to end up in our kitchen chatting away and having the odd drink or too - my Dad being a refugee too.
ReplyDeleteThere was also a Co-op Milko came round- he collected tokens left out for the milk. People used to leave them on the lintel above the door on the T1/A's as kids used to nick them to get orange drinks as well down at North kenton shops.
ReplyDeleteI remember that Dave the milkman and can see his litso(face) as clear as day in mein memory...however I also recall another 'milkman' we had in the split levels...he used to knock then can you believe open the door(not kept locked in them days) and shout'Milkman!'... if he did not elicit a response he would walk up the first flight of stairs, knock on the door and shout'milkman!'...I remember one time he actually walked up into our front room(2 more flights of stairs up) and knocked on the door and opened it shouting'milkman!'can you believe the audacity?...why my idiot parents let him do this week in week out I have no idea...:(
ReplyDeleteStop Press!! - some news from Google - Sting DOES have a brother and he IS a milkman. Alas I cannot find the fellers name or whether he had a Kenton Bar round but he definitely had a Wallsend round.
ReplyDeleteNuggets of truth in the old tale eh?
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ReplyDeleteI remember once watching horrible Sting on 'saturday swapshop'...he was answering phone calls and someone asked him'why dont you have a geordie accent if your a geordie?'
ReplyDeleteHe said'When I went down to London no-one could understand me, so I changed my accent'...yeah, right...