JohnCenaFan28
02-12-2009, 05:26 PM
A Coventry milkman has been doing the same round since the Second World War.
Derek Arch, 81, reluctantly took over his father's milk round as a favour at the age of 14 and is still going strong.
Nearly 70 years later, he is still rising at 2.30am to make his daily deliveries, seven days a week, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Arch delivers milk to more than 400 houses in the same van he's had for more than half a century and walks eight miles a day on his round.
He said: "I'm just an any old man trying to earn a crust. To be in this job you have to be totally insane and put in a lot of hard graft for relatively little.
"When I was 14 I left school and I had no intention of ever doing a milk round. But when my dad had a nervous breakdown I had no option to take over and then that was that.
"It should have been a short term fill in but I've been doing it ever since. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I just rolled my sleeves up and got stuck in.
"The Britain I was brought up in was one that you worked in and worked hard in."
-Nova
Derek Arch, 81, reluctantly took over his father's milk round as a favour at the age of 14 and is still going strong.
Nearly 70 years later, he is still rising at 2.30am to make his daily deliveries, seven days a week, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Arch delivers milk to more than 400 houses in the same van he's had for more than half a century and walks eight miles a day on his round.
He said: "I'm just an any old man trying to earn a crust. To be in this job you have to be totally insane and put in a lot of hard graft for relatively little.
"When I was 14 I left school and I had no intention of ever doing a milk round. But when my dad had a nervous breakdown I had no option to take over and then that was that.
"It should have been a short term fill in but I've been doing it ever since. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I just rolled my sleeves up and got stuck in.
"The Britain I was brought up in was one that you worked in and worked hard in."
-Nova