The fizzy pop lorry. A north eastern phenomenon or a national thing?

Bon Accord van for me. Orangeade which made you run round in circles for hours !

We used to have Mister Bacon deliver pop in Maidstone. Fizzy limeade was my favourite.

Mr Bacons
I think that was the one in Kent
(edit, must type faster – Hoo for me)

Enfield North London, open backed lorry, stacked crates of different coloured pop. Lovely jubbly. We used to collect coroner bottles but I’m pretty sure only for the newsagents not the lorry dude.

Bon Accord as a kid kept in a cold larder it was good lots of fizz at the start but their fitba team were pish hold the record for lost goals

Coroner bottles?

10p off if you take them to laughing Len Gorodkin?

He used to be mentioned on Look North West nearly every night.
By Stuart Hall ironically.

Corona van here in the FoD in the 70;s

and the trucks where all open sided , the crates sloping inwards and strangely non got nicked, the driver would stack the empty crates at bottom and somehow knew where all the different flavours where above, even if you couldnt see the open tops of the crates.

Had them when I was a kid here in Chippenham, Wiltshire. There was a Corona van and the milkman brought round small bottles of orange squash, in one of those little electric milk floats.
Coal man brought the coal on a horse-drawn waggon, and there was a rag-and-bone man as well.

Corona wagon in ossett near Wakefield till I guess the early 70s my parents were either too middle class or too healthy or too money consciousness to buy from it ” there’s plenty of water in tap!” I loved going to the neibours and getting dandelion and burdock with my tea. Bizarrely the bottles were all returned for 5p to the corner shop not the wagon.

We had the pop man in North Cumbria, think it was Underwood’s.

Cherryade so sweet it turned your mouth inside out!

Used to get the Apline vans round my way, we never used them though. Barr’s were better as you could claim ye 8p back in the shops! Used to do the ganjy run, chapping everybodies doors asking for their barrs glass emptys, then troop round to the shops(with much effort, 2 bags of bottles for an 8/9 year old is blinking heavy!), then gorge or selves on sweeties! 🙂 Happy days!

Struthers lorry in Ayr during the 70s

Corona van in Worcestershire.

In my teens we would hunt down empties and take them to the local sweet shop for the deposit. Collect enough for a bottle of pop each.

As soon as Rod, the eldest in our group, turned 18 they were exchanged for bottles of Woodpecker cider or perry.

Good days.

I remember the Alpine pop lorry from my childhood in South Lancs.

Yeap – a 7.5t flatbed truck-load of pop. Really gruff, hairy, vest-wearing men doing the deliveries too

Pop deliveries seem more universal than any of us seem to have imagined. What did differentiate us town by town though was the colour of the Creme Soda. Inexplicably bright green in our case.

We used to have a guy doing the rounds hiring VHS videos out of the boot of a car too.

Pop Man’s alive and well and living in barra

https://www.facebook.com/Pop-Man-232676496756554/

I worked briefly for Cruickshanks Soft Drinks out of Buckie. Early noughties business was dying a death.

Good to see Maine soft drinks on the go still grew up in Bangor NI.

Struthers lorry in Ayr during the 70s

Didn’t know you were from the shire Gordi?.

Alpine where I lived too, but the real joy was a big old Bedford box van used by Girdwoods bakers. Lovely old chap, Peter. Had a proper bakers counter with big old wooden trays of cream cakes.

I can still smell it…..

Alpine in Wigan as well.

I remember my great uncle always saying how expensive their pop was. My mate next door but one was allowed alpine but we weren’t. Can’t remember it tasting any better than any other when I did have some at my mates.

There is still a guy I see around in a old Sprinter with ” Sugar free pop 5 bottles £3 ” splattered all over the side of it. Last saw him going onto the housing estate near me which is as rough as Jeremy Kyles waiting room 😀 probably a front to sell other stuff……

Another thing I remember at my great aunts was the ” potato man ” as she called him which was basically a mobile store like that one on Postman Pat. Bloke called Joe ran it and he only recently passed away. He must have been ancient as he was old when I was a kid. He retired about 2000, and his round got taken over so we must have been getting the mobile shop thing till about 2005 ish.

Could understand it somewhere rural, but this was Wigan. Told my great aunt to stop buying of the new guy as all his stuff was from Aldi and he was adding 20p to everything.

70’s Gateshead we had the coal waggon, milk man (not many of them left), the bread van (cakes loaves and biscuits) rag and bone man (jam jars used to get collected for some reason and old newspapers, perhaps recycling has always been around?) the pop man was always a treat

We had a pop man in Bolton in the 80’s, can’t remember the brand tho…What is even better, where the girlfriend’s dad lives in Bavaria they have a beer man who leaves crates of beer on your doorstep in the morning and takes your empties!

Waters and Robsons from the milkman for Sunday Lunch if we kids behaved. Money earned from collection of bottles (5p if I recall) was a positive gravy train as long as you switched shops every so often.

The orange Corona van was still going in the early 90’s in the Beacons, driver was the son of the owner so it usually arrived very fast and had the latest chart songs blaring out of it 🙂

Replaced by the milkman in ’94, there was a commotion locally big enough to make the local paper for some odd reason! The milkman retired last year so it was running until then.

We had a milkman, a bread man, a fruit and veg man and a pop man (north west)
I remember Tizer, Cream soda in bright green, dandelion & burdock, and Irn Bru.

Anther STW nostalgia fest…..when I was a wee boy in Coupar Angus it was Strathmore springs who delivered the goods – as a slightly bigger wee boy in Galloway, Curries did the rounds. Fizzled out in the late 70’s I think.

The pop man used to come to my Nana’s in Denton (SE Manc, for those not of the area). She used to buy me a bottle of Tizer. She’d also let me sit in her chair whilst we wathed The Sullivans, each with our cup of tea (with sugar in), sharing a packet of Ginger Nuts.

I loved my Nana.

It was the Schofields van for me in 80s Liverpool. I think they’re still doing it, but the brand is Dayla (As in Have a Nice Day La) now?

She’d also let me sit in her chair whilst we wathed The Sullivans, each with our cup of tea (with sugar in), sharing a packet of Ginger Nuts.

I loved my Nana.

And that is better than any fizzy pop ever.

Yup, Alpine off the back of a Bedford, later a long bed Transit. I always though they were a north Ayrshire thing as they operated out of Barrhead, never realised they were nationwide.

My Nan had a pop man in the early 80s, and a fish man – in South Wales.

Also a coal man. The smell of lovely shiny anthracite being burned takes me back.

My Nan had a pop man in the early 80s, and a fish man – in South Wales.
Also a coal man.

I’m sorry, I read that a completely different way….. 😳

She had a fizzy drink
She had a fishy drink
She had a… um…. sooty drink?
It doesn’t really work

Heh. She had a coal man for 60 years…

Yep, remember looking for deposit bottles as a kid (had to have the screw top to get the 10p) also had a fish van, meat van, grocery van, rag and bone man! Also, ( as i dont drink these days ) do they still have a “mr cockle” round the pubs these days? crab sticks after several pints was always a fave!

Wood & Watson’s pop wagons round Durham, their Ginger Beer was lush!

I also remember a Rington’s tea van, a black-and-yellow three-wheeler.

Like Frank said, still going strong but they’ve progressed from 3 wheelers.

Underwoods delivered in our small Cumbrian town, loved their D+B and cream soda…especially when added to ice cream….nom

We had Davenport’s beer at home deliveries and I’m sure they delivered Corona, etc back in the day. (Deepest Oxfordshire).

Rag and Bone man still calls round these parts. The bloke is as strong as an ox. I watched him lift and carry an old coal burner into the back of a transit tipper. Blimey!