Horses and history

Do you remember milk being delivered by horse and cart? If you've lived in Essendon awhile, it's not unlikely that you do. Remarkably, the Tighe family who ran the Lincoln Park Dairy, were still making milk deliveries in Essendon with a Clydesdale driven cart until 1987, decades after horse-drawn deliveries had ended in most suburbs!

The National Museum are now preparing an exhibition about horses in Australia that will feature the Tighe's yellow cart. And Essendon Historical Society members provided information and memories about the Tighe family milk delivery service that Museum staff found so fascinating they decided to make a documentary featuring them which will be part of the show.

Painting of Princess and Pat Tighe delivering milk in Essendon, by Susan Dowling, (from the Magic1278 blog).

You can read more about this story, and see a wonderful image of the Tighe's horse and cart, in the Moonee Valley Leader of 27th January 2014 (page 11).

Congratulations to the Essendon Historical Society for making such a wonderful contribution!

Julia

PS. If you have memories of these horse-drawn milk deliveries that you would like to share with the National Museum, email Martha Sear: marthasear@nma.gov.au

And of course if you'd like to share any memories or pictures of the Moonee Valley area with your local community, I'm always interested to hear from you. Send an email to librarian@mvcc.vic.gov.au, or call or visit the Library and ask for Julia.

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