When did it stop? When did it start again?

When I was a young child ( late 50s) there were various delivery vans that came on specific days, ( eg the fish monger on Fridays) or every few weeks - the Tizer ( soft drinks) lorry. These came during the day.some vans brought what ever had been ordered the previous week - others my mother would choose from what was available. Like most families we did not have a car.the milk delivery came early every morning.
When we moved to a small city in the late 60s early 70s,- By then we had a phone and a car. We only had a milk delivery but the milkman could deliver eggs, bread and orange juice ( and cream cake) as well as dairy products.For everything else we used the local shops. I don’t remember when the traditional grocers stores expanded into supermarkets- in the 70s.

I suppose some of us would have stopped using- or even noticing these services if we were out at work. Ours tended to come during the day. Obviously the milkman was an exception as he came very early.

Even in the 90s we had butcher deliveries and milk and pop man

The more remote Villages here still have a mobile butcher and a fish man, milkman.

Obviously I do my own knives now!

I miss the knife and scissor sharpener.

In the early 80s we still had a grocery van come to see if we wanted anything. It parked up once a week in the hamlet (or maybe once a fortnight)... it was handy but expensive.

I lived in the far north of Scotland in the 80’s and we still had the usual milk deliveries, plus butcher and supermarket deliveries. Often my grocery shop was on my door step by the time I’d walked home from town!

Yes - the Co-op travelling shop came every week and Mum got on at the back to be served.
Walter Willson was another travelling shop in the North East and that was like a mini self service shop inside. The Grey’s Pop Man came on Fridays, and another chap called Teddy sold fruit and vegetables from his van - I can remember big scales with a scoop and weights and he’d just tip the goods into Mum’s big bag. He carried Smiths crisps with the twist of salt in a blue bag. I can’t remember a fish man coming round, but definitely a baker’s van with tea cakes and stotties.

We had a chap in a large van filled with groceries that used to come to our houses, we could browse and then buy, that was in the 1970s
We had the baker, fish man, Corona drinks lorry calling to the house and Mum would go to the shops pay for goods from the butcher and small grocers and they would deliver later in the day.that was in the 1950s/60s.

All through fifties and certainly early sixties milk float, baker with basket of breads, butcher boy, and the grocery boy then in the 70s we had a fish van, meat van and corona van come round
We don’t have Ocado in our area still

Greengrocer with a horse and cart stopped delivering in the 60s, but groceries and bakers until the mid 80s

Oh and forgot we had a bread man too and a fish van, and the ‘pop’ man. The French Onion Man would also call on his bike …. Though now in later years I question his origins !

From when I can remember 1959 and into the 1960s Mum stopped going to the Hadrian grocery store, where a lady would retrieve numerous items from behind the counter one by one and pour sugar into blue bags ! We had a Saturday morning delivery by a lovely boy on a big black bike with a basket on the front. Changed her life ! Well almost, she still cooked a full meal everyday at lunchtime for which we all had to come home and sit down for. How Dad went back to work on a full stomach I’ll never know !

I remember deliveries in the 60s as well. Fish, meat, and my favourite was the baker who came round on Sunday mornings. He called out hot rolls, hot bread, it was delicious but did cause indigestion at times.

Deliveries started again in the early years of this century. Although a compny called 'Supermarket Direct was delivering Sainsburies products in London in 1995. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_Direct

When I was a child in the early seventies we had the baker, the milkman, coalman and the pop lorry that came round on a friday afternoon selling lurid coloured limeade, cherryade etc.

You must young! In the 50s and 60s I can recall the butcher and fishmonger delivering and also the Coop van. Not to order, we didn’t have a phone. They carried goods from which to choose. Also the mobile fish and chip van until that ended after a dreadful accident.