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SPRING FARM DAIRY
Clarence Street, Upper Gornal.
1941: Birmingham Mail, 5 March.
DAIRY Business Owner of the Spring Farm Dairy Upper Gornal retiring health reasons will Sell this flourishing long-established business on most favourable terms to approved purchaser. Possession given of excellent dwelling & dairy, charming yard, with small meadow, piggeries etc. 4,000 gals., weakly, bottled milk only. great opportunity for worker.
1943: Birmingham Daily Post, 31 July.
THURSDAY NEXT. AUGUST 5.
SPRING FARM DAIRY, UPPER GORNAL.
sale of the
SURPLUS PLANT AND EQUIPMENT of a Modern Dairy, including two Electric Refridgerators Gaulins Homogeniser, Higgs 10-h.p. Motor. Newton 8-hour Taper Charger, &c.
PIGS, POULTRY and APPLIANCES, including Boulton & Paul, Field house, Brooders, Timber &c.
HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE FURNITURE, including Upright Grand Piano, oak Roll-top and Knee-hole desks, Remington 10in. Typewriter; SECTIONAL OFFICE, 12ft 6in x 9ft. for Mr. F. E Pyatt.
1945: Birmingham Mail, July 26.
THIS DAY, (THURSDAY). at 6.30.
Particulars of Sale of the Freehold
RESIDENCE
"SPRING HOUSE,"
No. 38, CLARENCE STREET, UPPER GORNAL, SEDGLEY.
With Gardens and Grounds, Kitchen Garden, Orchard, A small Factory, and the Clarence Street Filling Station.
The dairy and shop was located in Clarence Street, Upper Gornal, virtually opposite to the Jolly Crispin Inn.
The premises were demolished in the 1960s and the present filling station occupies part of the site.
This business was started by Edward Pyatt at Spring House, and operated from 1928 until the 1940s.
In 1931, it was said that Pyatt sterilised 2,500 gallons of milk a week, and purchased the milk from a farmer in Claverley.
Output had increased to 4,000 gallons weekly by the time of it's closure.
In a 1936 trade directory, Edward Pyatt is listed as a garage proprietor and dairyman at 41 Clarence Street.
Spring House also included a shop and filling station at the side. of the dairy.
There was not actually a dairy farm there, milk churns were bought in from local farms, and milk was steralised and bottled on the premises.
The business in Clarence Street was put up for sale in 1941.
Spring House at No.38 Clarence Street and the filling station was sold off in 1945.
The shop latter became Dave Hill's newsagents in the 1960s.
The premises were demolished in the 1960s and the present Texaco filling station occupies part of the site.
A fleet of their milk delivery vans lined up at Spring Farm Dairy c1930s.
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