001 Small creamery with belt driven single wooden horizontal churn; the image also shows the cooler, between the doorway on the churn. The sign above the door reads “DAIRY SUPPLY CO. LTD, Dairy Engineers, Oxford Street, Belfast”.
002 Detail showing Dairy Supply Co. sign above door in the previous image; DAIRY SUPPLY CO. LTD, Dairy Engineers, Oxford Street, Belfast.
003 Belt driven wooden horizontal churn. Note the steps up to the churn to allow inspection and extraction of the butter. Note also the tap at the side of the churn to allow the butter milk.
004 Butter worker; butter had to be “worked” after churning to remove excess moisture. Few butter workers survive as the process was incorporated into the butter churn, as can be seen by the gearing on side of the churn.
Left: 005 Gearing on an early churn. Right: 006 Gearing on a churn with the butter worker incorporated.
007 Churn, butter worker and cream coolers.
008 Cutaway showing a churn with the butter worker incorporated.
009 Belt driven, end over churns; these type of churns are unusual in a creamery.
010 Creamery interior; note the twenty gallon milk can beside the churn.
011 Interior of a separating station; the cylindrical cooler in the middle foreground was made by the Dairy Engineering Company. The vat on the platform behind the cylinder was for the separated cream.
Detail showing the poster beside the shelving in 011. The poster reads MEADOWS AND PASTURES / Unclear / DROGHEDA / XXX SUPERGRASS / MANURE / Unclear / James M. Beattie.