Gemmell's Dairy

Back in the winter Friday 3rd Decemebr 2021 we'd missed a comment about Gemmel's Dairy. We thought we might share it - the author is someone called Ace - Ace by name and ace by comment! 😂😂 'I also worked at Gemmell's Dairy on Morningside Road: this would have been in the late 50s early 60s. If my mind is clear I believe Mr. Gemmell was the owner there when I started then a Cyril Smith bought the place. I delivered milk in the morning and worked in the shop in the afternoon. When the snow was really bad Mr Gemmell would drive us around with a trailer on the back of his car while a couple of us would deliver the milk. What stuck in my mind was the car had running boards and Mr. Gemmell allowed us to stand on the running boards and hang on: it was exciting for a young lad like myself. When I was around 18 I got my own little shop with milk delivery.

Murchies Creamery was our supplier. I remember the Edinburgh and Dumfriesshire used electric milk wagons and the co-op still used horse and cart.'