Description:Name plate from a milk churn belonging to Fole Dairy, near Tean. It reads: " Empty to C.W.S. Ltd./ Fole Dairy / Uttoxeter L.M.S.". Uttoxeter L.M.S (London Midland Scottish) refers to the railway station from whence milk was transported around the country.
ole dairy occupied the site of Fole Mill, originally built in 1771 for Henry Copestake. The Dairy opened in the 1920s and was originally owned by Co-operative Wholesale Society (C.W.S.) Milk Group, and produced milk and cream. In 1995 management passed to Associated Co-operative Creameries, and finally in 2006 to Dairy Farmers of Britain (D.F.B.). At the time the Dairy closed on 31 March 2009 it employed 246 people.