"As a very little girl, it was always my ambition to wake early enough to see the draught horses and the milkman who delivered full-cream milk in glass bottles each morning at dawn. I was never fast enough though. From my snug position in my parents’bed I would hear the clip-clop of the horses’hooves quite clearly, but by the time I scrambled to their window, which looked onto the street, the horses were always gone. I remember that the horses lived in a paddock of the dairy on a corner opposite Doncaster Shoppingtown, and it was exciting to pass by and see them there - they were so big."
Katherine Smith, questionnaire, 14 August 2001
Pertzel, Barbara & Walters, Fiona 2001, Manningham : from country to city, Arcadia, Melbourne
Dad was the Stable Master at the Dairy, Around 1963 the horses left. Russell Clay Facebook
Edward Gallus started Doncaster's first dairy in the 1890's. At first his children, Ted and Minnie, used to deliver milk before going to school in the morning. They would set off in different directions, each carrying a can of milk to fill the billys left out for them. From this modest beginning, the dairy grew. When Ted Gallus Junior was married in 1918, the milk was being delivered by horse and cart. Later a dairy building with brine coolers was built. The land on the corner was not adequate for the enlarged dairy herd. Other paddocks were used. At milking time cows would be herded along Doncaster Road, through the corner, to the dairy. During the day, Ted grew vegetables and during the 1930 depression, sold them in Serpell's store.
Irvine Green writing in 1981 08 DTHS Newsletter
Photo: Doncaster Corner c1960: Tram Road and Elgar Road, Doncaster, showing the Model Dairy paddock on the left, vacant land at the corner and new houses being built on the west side of Tram Road. The orchard belonging to the Hanke family can be seen in the distance. The white weather-board house in Tram Road was the first to be built in that section of Tram Road on land that had belonged to Edward Herman Gallus. It was owned by the Gall family.DP0952
‘I can remember the milkman who used to come early in the morning and deliver the milk. Mr Gallus used to milk his own cows then deliver it round the district, although not to everyone because some people used to keep their own cows. I can remember my mother put the billy out, inside the back door every night with the money. He would come round, probably about 6 o clock in the morning with the stainless steel bucket and a long ladle, and he just ladled the milk out of his big bucket into the billy.’
Interview with Eric Collyer, 12 June 2001
Pertzel, Barbara & Walters, Fiona 2001, Manningham : from country to city, Arcadia, Melbourne
Doncaster Corner 1969 Draught horses drinking in the paddock at the south-east corner of Doncaster and Tram Roads. The horses were used for delivering milk by the Model Dairy. The land was formerly owned by the Gallus family for many years. Mr L. H. Smith's late Victorian house in Elgar Court [formerly part of Elgar Road] can be seen, and also David Williamson's Edwardian house [now demolished] in Doncaster Road can be seen on the right. Display Caption was: Doncaster Corner Extensions now cover the car park and south of Doncaster Road. Milk delivery horses graze in the corner paddock. Tram Road crosses the centre and LA Smith’s old brick house is in Elgar Road 1969 DP0108
Doncaster Corner c Horse looking north from dairy c1960. Often called Whites Corner AlanCampbell-Drury Facebook
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