In 2012, plastic bottles finally infiltrated the dairy. Arthur hated them. "They felt dead in your hands. No weight. No music." Glass has a specific chime when you set it down on a stone step. Plastic just... thuds. That thud, Arthur says, was the sound of the end.
Arthur Haliday passed his final route sheet to a local archive. The electric float was scrapped for parts in November 2021. As of 2025, the dairy depot on Mill Street is a vegan coffee shop. The barista—who has a tattoo of a milk bottle on his forearm—has no idea why the floor is sloped toward a drain in the middle of the room. Interview With A Milkman -1996- -2021-
By Thomas Ashworth