{"id":5041,"date":"2017-08-28T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5041"},"modified":"2017-11-24T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:55:02","slug":"arthur-beeley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5041","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Beeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Blind milkman<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Beeley was a milkman in Bollington in the 1940s and 50s. He was notable for the fact that he was blind. He made his deliveries using a horse and cart. The milk was carried in churns. For delivery he transfered the milk to a smaller churn and then used one of two ladles to pour the milk into the customer&#8217;s jug. The ladles were a half and one pint. He guided the milk into the jug by pouring it down his finger!<\/p>\n<p>Each year Bollington folk would mostly go away for Wakes week. But Arthur would remain to serve the folk who didn&#8217;t go away. Now, you&#8217;d expect the round to go much quicker with fewer folk to serve, but no, for the horse knew where to stop and would wait the full time for a delivery to be made, even where there was none this week, before moving on!<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to David Biggar, raised in Bollington, now living in Bolton, for telling me this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blind milkman Arthur Beeley was a milkman in Bollington in the 1940s and 50s. He was notable for the fact that he was blind. He made his deliveries using a horse and cart. The milk was carried in churns. For delivery he transfered the milk to a smaller churn and then used one of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7490,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5041\/revisions\/7490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}