The Milkman
Mack the milkman had a horse and cart
Deliveries around the estate continued to be by horse and van until the 1950s. Barry Hackett remembers helping on a Saturday morning.
I used to help Mack the milkman and Mack the milkman had got a horse and cart. I used to give him a hand - used to pick up the empty bottles and all this business. One of the great things was the stables where they was kept was at Morden. When we used to do the round with the milkman, he used to finish at the top of Shapp Crescent and then I'd stay on the cart all the way down to Morden and then we would take the horse out of the cart and bed the horse down and that, and then you used to walk home. I used to get coppers helping him out for the Saturday morning . That was probably my very, very first job.
It sounds peaceful, but there could be drawbacks. This article is from The Wallington and Carshalton Times, 1st October 1936.