Comments on: On The Rounds With The Olympic Milkman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:37:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Colin Thomas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59578 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:37:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59578 Kevin – you’re getting a bit famous geez! Heard you mentioned on Steve Allen on LBC. I’m actually living and working in Houston, Texas (my family are still home in Ware Herts, hence the ongoing milk deliveires). It was strange, me being here, listening to a radio station from there, mentioning you who I’d been in correspondence with! The world is a small place.

]]> By: Colin Thomas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59470 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:31:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59470 My pleasure Kevin! Punk is good too and just as much a creation of London as the Mod movement. I thought yesterday, when watching the Olympic Closing ceremony, that the Kaiser Chiefs should have played a Small Faces number instead of the Who – especially as they were on themselves later.

Keep on delivering! I still have milk delivered to my house in Ware, Herts but I do miss the sound of the electric floats in the still of the night. Gone forever and never to be heard again, I’m afraid.

]]> By: Kevin the milkman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59201 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:35:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59201 Thank you Colin, I have just watched the Lazy Sunday video! I love the Small Faces. I even play bass guitar in a group, but we are a 70’s punk group!! Still very British though!!

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59157 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 06:37:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59157 i love the sense of dawn over london one gets from the time lapse in the sequence of pix– dawn over stepney, beautiful, your light there in bloighty is sublime. when you have some. and, MILK TO THE FARM???
your nocturnal adventures are among my favorites, never will forget the christmas eve one.

]]> By: Colin Thomas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59088 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:48:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59088 The photo of Kevin with the title ‘In Shadwell’ is Haverring Street – That’s the street where Kenney Jones of the Small Faces parents lived in the 60’s. I think it was also used in the film clip for Lazy Sunday Afternoon when Steve Marriot was chased away by a old lady neighbour at the point in the song where he complains that the neighbours – ‘They stop me from groovin’, they bang on me wall. They’re doing me crust in, it’s no good at all!’

]]> By: ROY https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59079 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:39:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59079 Keep hearing about you onLBC nice to put a face to the name, your a star

]]> By: JerryW https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59074 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:23:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59074 People like Kevin are the true nobility. I hope he gets the rewards he deserves in life. Heartwarming stuff

]]> By: Libby Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59071 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:26:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59071 ‘….that looks like a meccano kit where someone lost the instructions’ – Lovely!

I was on a train to Essex a few weeks ago, and when we passed through Stratford, one of a group of university students sitting across from me announced: ‘That red thing is rubbish’. I thought that would have made a wonderful title for how I have felt about the Olympics. (But it’s excellent that ‘you are part of it’ meant a lot to all those who did want to feel part of it.)

Milk delivered in glass bottles is most definitely a service industry. A service that is a quietly reassurring connection to a sense of order and continuity and of ‘Home’.

]]> By: Hardy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59067 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:28:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59067 Kevin and his attendant – double Olympic Gold Top Medallists. Bravo!!

]]> By: Marina B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/08/10/on-the-rounds-with-the-olympic-milkman/#comment-59065 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:53:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=68426#comment-59065 Yes, a Gold for Kevin! Wonderful work!

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