WORKING for Job’s Dairy ran in the blood of the Stevens’ family.

Bertie Stevens was employed by the company for 30 years.

He was later joined by his wife Pat and son Ian.

Even daughter Jennifer got in on the act, helping roundsmen in her spare time. Their other daughter, now Val Pietersen, was prompted to write in after reading Bob Smith’s memories of working for Job’s (Memory Lane, August 17).

Bertie joined the firm as a milk roundsman after leaving the gasworks, became rounds inspector, then manager of the branch at Crescent Road, Cowley, and later manager of the Rose Hill branch, where the family lived in a flat above the shop.

Mrs Pietersen, of Marston Road, Oxford, writes: “My mum worked in the shop and servery and my sister and I did our bit backing mum up on the household chores – ugh!

“My sister, always a tomboy, used to love helping the roundsmen at weekends and during holidays. Her favourite roundsman was Harry Wilkinson.“ Bertie’s next move was to the Kingston Road branch, and when that closed, he took on a managerial role at the Pony Road trading estate, off Horspath Road.

Mrs Pietersen recalls: “Mum worked in the servery there and when dad retired in 1982, he carried on working voluntarily, taking the model milk float to fetes and fairs. He lived and died Job’s.

“Job’s was very much a family-orientated firm. I remember the children’s parties, sports days, trips to London for ice pantos and social evenings.

“I went to a managers’ dinner with dad after mum died – it was such a grand affair. My brother also worked for Job’s.”

She has sent in some photographs recalling the family’s connection with the dairy.

“My dad’s employment with Job’s certainly embellished our lives and left us with happy memories.”

Any more memories of Job’s and other dairies in Oxfordshire?