Ambrosia Creamery, Lifton recently held a presentation in their canteen to recognise and say farewell to fellow employees who are retiring this year. Dave Hawken (production operator) retired on April 8 after 42 years service, Bob Alford (engineer) retires on May 31 after 45 years of service, Mike Eddy (FLT driver) retired on April 3 after 50 years service, Bob Wickes (CAD/CAM operator) retires on June 14 after 14 years service and Jim Anderson (site electrical engineer) retired on February 6 after 29 years service. These gentlemen have dedicated most or all of their working lives to the Ambrosia Creamery. Collectively they have put in almost 180 years of service. An awful lot of milk has come in through the gates during their time and a huge amount of products have been shipped out to the Great British public. Bob Wickes, in his time since 1995 has seen 25,000 tankers of milk come through the gates. According to reports, Mike Eddy, who started the earliest back in 1959, has driven over 700,000 miles in his forklift in that time. In his time, since 1967, Dave Hawken has seen 4.5 billion cans of rice and custard produced on site. Stacked end to end, those cans would go around the world 12 times. Bob Alford, in his time since 1964, has seen almost two billion litres of milk used on site, enough to fill over 750 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Since 1980, Jim Anderson has kept the power running to produce over 1.8 million tonnes of product, and seen Thompsons haul about 72,000 wagon loads of product off-site.