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Three Empty Tins Of Cow & Gate Milk Food
The photographs in this entry is that of three empty tins of Cow and Gate Milk Food. Starting off as a small grocery shop in Guildford in 1771, brothers Charles and Leonard decided to go into the diary trade in 1888, naming their business 'The West Surrey Central Diary'. The Gates brothers invest in drying equipment from America to make use of skimmed milk left over from the creaming process. It worked and they started selling their powdered milk to the bakery and catering trade.
Acting on reports from the Carnegie lab in New York, Dr Killick Millard, the medical officer for health in Leicester, begins his research into the health benefits of dried powdered milk to babies. He orders a large quantitites of milk powder from the West Surrey Central Diary, meanwhile orders for powdered milk came flooding in from all over the country.
In 1908, Cow & Gate baby milk's first advert appears in newspapers.