When did it stop? When did it start again?

In the 50s and 60s we had coal and milk delivered. I had milk until around 1990 when I started using the supermarket.
There was a laundry van, which was obviously only for those who were better off.
No other food was delivered. I lived in London with everything near. I think deliveries were more usual in small towns and villages.
I started using Tesco and Sainsburys home deliveries around 2003 when I think it had been going for two or three years.

In the 50’s we had milk and bread delivered. When my mum left home my dad didn’t keep up the payments so the milkman stopped coming, but for the following two years, paid or not, the breadman carried on delivering. We lived mostly on bread and sugar at that time and I often think of that man’s kindness and wonder if he knew how much it meant to us four young children.

In the 60’s local deliveries included Wall’s ice cream (remember the cycles with the box on front?) milk, bread, coal, fish, ‘lucky’ heather, the rag and bone man with his donkey stones and kindling, the oil man also had paraffin and other sundries. And then there was the man who had a catalogue he used to bring round and mum would order shoes, clothing and household items that he would deliver personally and she would pay him for them weekly. I still remember his name was Mr. Locke - we saw him more regularly than we saw our relatives.

I certainly remember a baker delivering when I was no more than 6 (in the 50s) - whether he came with a horse, like the milkman, I don’t recall.
Dds always found it hilarious that the milkman came with a horse - like something out of the Dark Ages.

We moved a few miles away when I was 6, but there were no horse-drawn deliveries there.

Milk is still delivered locally. We have two different fish vans too. That's about it

All through my childhood 50s/60s the milkman and breadman delivered daily (maybe not on Sunday?). We also had a fruit and veg van which came round once a week. It carried a few other basics too. The Popman came weekly too. Mum bought 4 bottles every week. One of the few regular treats we had.

We still have the fish man. He parks up in a pub car park once a week for a couple of hours. He brings fresh fish.

Milk and papers were delivered to almost everyone. I remember, in England, the bluetits pecking through the shiny milk bottle tops. London, 20 mins from Trafalgar Square. We also got foxes,hedgehogs and squirrels. Just took all this for granted. They deliver groceries round here since Covid but you pay a delivery fee.

That was Cheshire

It was mid eighties when the “Fleetwood fish man “ called every week he pulled up into your yard gave you a knock and you just chose what you wanted. No order necessary

Reading through this thread, I remember lots of the home delivery vans for groceries, fish, meat, pop etc and the door to door sellars for household goods.
But I can’t see that anyone mentioned my Dads favourite - Beer at home means Davenports. Not sure if this was just a Midlands company though but sure I remember TV adverts?

My father retired in 1980 and until then the butcher, milkman and chemist delivered goods ordered by phone, and the newsagent's boy brought the morning papers every day, including Sunday.

This was in the Glasgow area. My parents had solid fuel stoves and coke and coal was delivered by the coalman too.

so there at least home deliveries stopped after 1980.

We certainly had 'Ingin Johnny' on his bike. A fish van still comes round every Tuesday. The fish queue is a great place for a meet and chat.

I remember my mother’s Co-op divi number.She used to write her order in a notebook and a boy delivered a huge order on his bike to our house every Friday.The divi accumulated over several years and was put inthe Christmas fund.We also had tea delivered in the Ringtons van, milk was delivered by Co-op dairies and we put plastic pre purchased milk tokens in the empty milk bottles on the front doorstep.I have a recollection of Johnny Onions the Breton onion sellers going door to door with huge strings of beautiful onions.This must have been in the mid 1950’s ,I was about four years old at the time.

My gran used to have a Frenchman on his push bike come round once a year and sell her a string of onions (outer London suburbs) 1960?

My neighbour currently has milk delivered in bottles (South coast).
My parents were definitely having a baker deliver twice a week in suburban London/Surrey border in 1970s.
And I remember an extremely attractive greengrocer delivery lad in mid-1960s.

I think it depends where you are. I know a fishmonger used to sell his wares from a van on the village green one afternoon a week. (A sort of one-shop-only village)

We've had milk delivered by a milkman at every home I have lived in, all my life. Still having this service now, from a couple of local milkman: the milk is locally sourced too. I hate it when I have to buy milk in plastic bottles (e.g. when on holiday) and I love putting out the glass milk bottles for re-use! Our milkman sells other grocery items: we have eggs from him every week. A reliable delivery service, rain, shine, or snow! Delivery is early (around 7.00.a.m.) and everything is fresh.

I lived in Isle of Man in 50's We had a weekly visit from the Maypole van that sold all the usual groceries.Milk lorry came daily

In the 50s and 60s, in addition to the milk and fish deliveries, a man came round from the local grocers (Buchanan and Calder) to take Gran's order and it would be delivered next day. This man would sit in the kitchen and chat and often brought samples of new lines to tempt us to order them. It was a highlight of the week!

Had Ted the milkman deliver not only milk but other items that I can remember eg dairy items, bread, potatoes well into 1970s. Before that after WW11, butcher, vegetables, bread all from carts or vans. The Co-Op van sold all kinds of dry goods. Of course the ice-cream man, Ernie with his horse and cart until he modernised with a van. Scrap metal and coal man definitely in the 60s. Lots of independent grocers provided delivery of your shopping. I went in to the shop, then the items were all delivered later that day (1960s).

My brother delivered meat on a bike from
1962- for four years

Our milk came by horse and cart right up to the 1960s, also I remember a bread van drawn by horse around the same time. As our milk came at lunchtime we would hitch a ride back to school on the cart, sitting in a row on the back with our legs dangling over. No thought of health and safety then!
I also remember the grocer would come round and sit at our kitchen table while my mother dictated her shopping list; it would then be delivered the next day.
We also had a greengrocers lorry that would come every Saturday, and also the Corona pop lorry.

I remember our milky delivering basic produce in the late 80's he was one of the last milkys around my way probably finished by early 90's but ive used supermarkets to deliver for about 8 years not sure if it helps

I had friends in Liverpool Thisismyname1953 who always talked about red pop, orange pop, green pop... don't know what they called dandelion and burdock or cream soda?...

We had Corona - which was mostly "ade" - cherryade, orangeaid, limeade etc.

I also remember in the mid-70s I was married with 2 small children there was stokes I all sorts of industries , one of which was bread . We had to queue for quite a while when shops got a delivery in , but I was lucky because my husband was our local milkman and he was able to put a loaf to one side for me a couple of times a week .
Another delivery I remember from around that time was the Alpine man who delivered fizzy lemonade in twelve different flavours .
In the North West we refer to them all as lemonade but pefix with green for limeade , red for cherryade etc etc . Lots of other People find this strange x

I remember the co-op van stopping outside our house when I was little around 1960 . I even remember my mums co-op number from then . 16059 😂😂😇

The last deliverys I had not supermarket delivery, was in 1987 kent from the greengrocers and butchers small businesses but do I miss them especially at Christmas, now gone! The fishman use to ring on a Wednesday and deliver on a Friday and that ended around 2005 he retired.
Georgesgran I love stotties my husband use to bring them home with him at weekends.