The Dairy Council is a British organisation founded in 1920 to promote the widespread consumption of milk in the UK, and advocate its health benefits.
6-611: It was founded on 24 February 1920, and incorporated on 4 February 1925 as the National Milk Publicity Council , situated on Southampton Street, London . From 1983 until 2001 it was known as the National Dairy Council . During WWII it had to curtail its activities as milk was heavily rationed . Sale of milk in the UK was three pints per head each week in 1939, rising to five pints in 1951. It
12-552: A landowner and politician, died at Southampton Street on 21 January 1710, aged 54. Charles Combe , the physician and numismatist, was born on 23 September 1743 in Southampton Street, where his father, John Combe, had a business as an apothecary. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert , the dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, who collaborated with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan in the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership,
18-540: Is a street in central London , running north from the Strand to Covent Garden Market . There are restaurants in the street such as Bistro 1 and Wagamama . There are also shops such as The North Face outdoor clothing shop. The street, like Southampton Row in Bloomsbury to the north, is named after Sir Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (1607–1667). It used to be in the district of Bloomsbury, but
24-515: Is now officially in Westminster . Ambrose Godfrey (1660–1741), a German-born chemist, inventor of the fire extinguisher , and a collaborator of Robert Boyle , lived and had a laboratory and pharmacy in the street from 1706 until his death. A green plaque installed by the City of Westminster marks the site on the west side of the street at No. 31. John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham ,
30-550: Is situated in Holborn , west of Holborn tube station , next door to the Food Standards Agency in the offices of Dairy UK. Sodexo UK & Ireland is on the opposite side of High Holborn . It is a subsidiary of Dairy UK. It produced slogans to consume milk such as drinka pinta milka day in the 1950s. It placed large adverts in national newspapers. Southampton Street, London Southampton Street
36-658: Was born at 17 Southampton Street on 18 November 1836. The publisher and editor Sir George Newnes (1851–1910) had offices at 8 Southampton Street. Magazines published from 8–11 Southampton Street included The Grand Magazine , the Happy Magazine , John O'London's Weekly , the Ladies' Home Magazine , and The Strand Magazine . Goupil & Co. , the London branch of the Paris -based art dealership Goupil & Cie ,
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