Remember the taste of creamy Oak milkshakes

From the Maitland Mercury report:

Almost everyone remembers enjoying a thick and creamy Oak milkshake at the Hexham milk bar opened in 1955. But most people are probably not aware that the original Oak creamery and butter factory opened at Morpeth in 1917 at the site of the former Australasian Steamship Company.

Morpeth Courthouse Museum is paying tribute to the factory’s former workers and the importance of the milk and cream industry with an exhibition called Remembering the Oak.
Much of the exhibition has come from the extensive collection of former Oak employee for more than 25 years, Pete Smith of Metford.

Full article by Rebecca Berry available at Maitland Mercury, 14 Sep, 2011.