Abinger Farm - Holmefirth - Oct 2016

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Hippie Alien

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Not much can be found in regards to the history of this farm, although I do know it produced both Dairy and bottled juice called Juicer. Plans where approved to demolish most of the building to make way for four rural residential properties in 2015.

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Was the woman mad enough to sample the Juicer? Loved it, Thanks

No I'm not quite that mad, although I did try and see if I could see the use by date but it had rust all over the lid so couldn't tell what it said. Although I did actually drink this stuff when I was younger :)
 
No I'm not quite that mad, although I did try and see if I could see the use by date but it had rust all over the lid so couldn't tell what it said. Although I did actually drink this stuff when I was younger :)

Chicken, isn't Holmsfirth where they shot Last of the summer wine?
 
One of a number of small milk producers that eventually fell foul to market forces, but cannot find out if this was due to the death of the proprietor (a Mr Tinker), or if he just decided to shut up shop and get the monetary value out of the property as a residential development. Indications that bottling of milk was done on the farm at some point and not just bulk tanker collection ( but references are somewhat iffy), but there are no references, that I can find, to the juice being produced on the site - even just bottling from concentrates. Have you found some details on the juice HA? Know this area very well from my younger days when the old, original farm house was a beautiful sight to see - typical West Yorkshire built to withstand the very harsh winters encountered there. Shame about the £400,000 modern development, I'd just keep the old house and get rid of the terrible outbuildings.
 
One of a number of small milk producers that eventually fell foul to market forces, but cannot find out if this was due to the death of the proprietor (a Mr Tinker), or if he just decided to shut up shop and get the monetary value out of the property as a residential development. Indications that bottling of milk was done on the farm at some point and not just bulk tanker collection ( but references are somewhat iffy), but there are no references, that I can find, to the juice being produced on the site - even just bottling from concentrates. Have you found some details on the juice HA? Know this area very well from my younger days when the old, original farm house was a beautiful sight to see - typical West Yorkshire built to withstand the very harsh winters encountered there. Shame about the £400,000 modern development, I'd just keep the old house and get rid of the terrible outbuildings.

I couldn't find any information what so ever about the juice. All I can tell you about it is that when I was younger my mother used to get it delivered along with our milk, but weather it was from here I don't know. The only evidence I could see that they did the juice there was the rolls of labels that were all over.
 
I couldn't find any information what so ever about the juice. All I can tell you about it is that when I was younger my mother used to get it delivered along with our milk, but weather it was from here I don't know. The only evidence I could see that they did the juice there was the rolls of labels that were all over.

Thanks for that info, I cannot see a sensible business reason for keeping large stocks of labels away from the actual bottling plant - labels in the wrong place could cause real production problems. However; your picture of the bottle does raise questions, labelling and that type of cap are not associated with milk bottling lines and the juice concentrate was clearly diluted with spring water, according to the label. The farm has mains water and no reference can be found to a spring supply, although from the age of the property, the farm was up and running well before the mains supply was installed.

Keep up your good work, you have a good eye for the important details and I hope you continue to record the rural scenes. I see you are located in Barnsley, being originally from Doncaster I know that there is plenty of rural stuff to find if you keep an eye open - Good luck in your future explores.
 

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