REGARDING your 'Looking Back' article (LET, March 8) about delivering milk, I was a milk woman for a long time.

I started with a float similar to the one you pictured and when the farmer retired I delivered with a Land Rover, then finished up working for the late Joe Jackson, of Church, whose family had East Lancashire's last horse-drawn float.

On the round we had a lady who put a bag of carrots out every day, but if she ever missed, we had a crust of bread to give the horse.

One winter's day, a customer asked me and the lad in for a cup of coffee. When we came out, the horse had got fed up and had gone to the farm.

The lad had to fetch it back as we hadn't finished the round.

How the horse crossed Dill Hall Lane to go in the farmyard, I will never know, but the horse knew the round as well as we did.

MARJORIE CHAMBERLAIN, Broadfield Road, Accrington.

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