Description:Three boys trundling an empty milk churn from Ranton School along Stocking Lane back to the village blacksmith. The three boys are Tony Cope, Peter Gill and Jeffrey Hill. At the time the village did not have a piped water suply and the Mr P.M. Ward, the blacksmith, delivered a milk churn of water to the school every day, having boiled it first. Electricity had only been installed at the school at Easter 1953.
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