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Avalon Dairy History:
| Young
Englishman (Jack Ellis) milking in the barn at Avalon Ranch
Dairy, circa 1912. |

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Grandpa
Brown, Jeremiah Crowley and grandson Harvey with a calf in
front of Avalon barn, circa 1914. |
| Everett
Crowley and sister Sylvia in front of cornfield at Avalon.
The corn was grown for cattle feed, circa 1917. |
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Pat
West (with Gordon Crowley's son Vern) and Avalon delivery
trucks,
circa 1933. |
| Jeremiah
Crowley in Avalon barnyard with Ford car (license 72-301),
circa 1928. |

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Jeremiah
Crowley (in bowler hat) with his sons, haying the back field
at Avalon, circa 1931. |

| Jeremiah
Crowley, son Cleveland (Con) and friend in barn hayloft at
Avalon, circa 1935. |

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Sylvia
and Mel with a friend and an Avalon dairy truck,
circa 1930. |
| An
ice-skating party at Avalon, winter of 1935. The local fire
department would flood the pond from the nearby fire hydrant
to renew the surface. Strings of lights were put up around
the pond to allow for night skating. (Two of the Crowley children
are in this photograph: Grant ('Bus') at the extreme
left, Vera ('Bubbles') second from right.) |
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Avalon
dairy wagon in original colours of dark green with cream lettering. |
| A
bottle of milk delivered on a cold snowy day. |
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