Old Milk Churn Stands.

I often walk past this milk churn stand on my walks.  It's a concrete churn stand.  It looks bomb proof.  It had to be strong for eight churns of milk or more.

I always think of visiting my grandparents farm when they had the horse and cart. My grandfather and my uncle would have 7 milking cows and they hand milked them every morning and night.  My uncle would sing songs and a cow  full of devilment would swish her tail or kick the bucket once it was filled with milk.  But only when it was filled.

Next morning the horse would be dressed with its harness and the cart would be attached and we would collect the churns from our own churn collection point.  Then we would sit on the cart and go to our neighbours farm churn stand to drop off our churns.  The cart had car tyres and sometimes the horse would stop and graze the verges.   It's a time gone forever, alas.

Why aren't  these churn stands preserved for ever?.  It's sad to see they are no longer needed.  Progress is the car, a necessary evil?  Perhaps.

I wish I could go back to times when people were poor and the roads had few cars or lorries and people had time to stop and talk and horses and carts collected the milk churns.