Mell And Podger The Milk People

Claremont Crescent Dairy first appears in postal directory of 1918, under name of Robert Mounsey. 1920 -'26 Charles Podger and John Meakins are shown as operating a dairy and refrigeration works in the vicinity of 21 - 23 Claremont Crescent. Podger appears to have left the business around 1927, Meakins remains in the directory until 1938, although his involvement in the dairy is not clear. Bewley Shaylor, who was previously involved in his brother John William's dairy, the Ayrshire Dairy, in First Avenue, then appears at the Claremont Crescent Dairy. From 1930 - '38 the names of Shaylor and John Schorer are connected with the refrigeration works and dairy. The dairy was possibly closed during WWII but Alec Dreyer, appears as dairyman at No.21 in 1946 - '47. The 1949 postal directory, the last available, does not mention a dairy although the property at 21 remained in the Shaylor family and Builey's son, Victor A. Shaylor, still (2002) lives at that address.