54-46 Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Need some help in settling a family discussion Does anyone remember the name of the firm that used to deliver fizzy drinks on flat bed trucks back in the late 70s? My sis reckons it was Corona but my brother in law and myself think it was Alpine. Not sure if different parts of Bristol had different deliveries but we were Whitchurch / Knowle West Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 We used to get the Alpine delivery in Sea Mills in the 70s and early 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internetjef Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Pretty sure my gran in Wales used to get corona lemonade in glass bottles off the milk float. Think there was a polar bear on the bottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 7 minutes ago, internetjef said: Pretty sure my gran in Wales used to get corona lemonade in glass bottles off the milk float. Think there was a polar bear on the bottle I think the polar bear was Cresta but I don`t know if they delivered, I just remember buying it when I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 1 minute ago, Red Right Hand said: I think the polar bear was Cresta but I don`t know if they delivered, I just remember buying it when I was a kid. It's frothy man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internetjef Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said: I think the polar bear was Cresta but I don`t know if they delivered, I just remember buying it when I was a kid. I stand corrected. Great shout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted January 20, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Cream Soda - bloody foul stuff.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said: Cream Soda - bloody foul stuff.... The original bottles used to have a metal cage type affair to retaian a rubber bung . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted January 20, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, slartibartfast said: The original bottles used to have a metal cage type affair to retaian a rubber bung . Grolsch.... much nicer than Cream Soda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Remember the Tizer delivery lorry? Tizer (the appetiser) ... bottles had threaded bung stoppers with rubber ring seals, bungs were made of a black Bakelite/plastic like material. (Tizer factory used to be in Kingswood) Alpine deliveries came much later, hugely popular for a few years then they seemed to disappear as quickly as they had appeared. Who used to make their own with those awful (first generation) Soda Stream machine mixers? (about mid/late 70's I think) Thinking of street door to door deliveries from yesteryear........ We all remember 'the milkman' of course.... but we had so many other regular 'door-knockers' back in the day.... The... Breadman/Baker .. Butcher meat deliveries .. The Coalman .. The Esso Blue/Pink Paraffin man (for the paraffin heater, those were the days, remember the 'chimney' and trimming the tube like round wicks?) ... The Rent Man , The Insurance Man, The Weekly 'Loan' man .. I'm sure there were more.... For a time I remember we used to get the 'Fish n Chips' delivery van (all deep fried and cooked on the vehicle, (where was the Health & Safety brigade then?.. imagine a gurt big van trundling down your street with greasy steam streaming out of a chimney/flue on it's roof and a few gallons of boiling hot cooking oil sloshing about in the fryers in the back behind the driver/cook/server! nowadays ... ) Then there was the 'travelling salesmen' who turned up now and again to demo the latest must-have vacuum cleaners... not to forget the Kleen-Ezy & Betterware catalogues and sellers, Avon ladies etc etc.... There must be more you can remember, who used to deliver in your street or knock on the door... (even the friendly (sometimes nuisance) neighbours who used to pop around to borrow a cup of sugar/ milk, shilling for the meter etc etc... That reminds me, The Meter Man (gas / electric who came to read the meters and empty the cash boxes... & the excitement when a rebate was due and he left little piles of shillings on the stairs. We even had a rental TV with a cashbox fitted on the back, we had to feed that with sixpences! to watch the telly and pay the monthly rental! Come on you Reds ... Who/what else can we remember from the 'good old days ' of door to door traders? Oh yeah, almost forgot, the 'rag n bone' man, who left bags in letterboxes for people to put old clothes etc in... or any old bikes metal etc... (didn't realise at the time, but looking back I bet they were Gasheads!... Sometimes they'd turn up to flog 'lucky heather', clothes pegs, and even tell your fortune for half a crown! ) :laugh:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I don’t know the company but even in the 90s this was happening. We were in Whitchurch at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 9 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said: Cream Soda - bloody foul stuff.... Dandelion and burdock.....that is the rinsings from Lucifer's ringpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 8 hours ago, WhistleHappy said: Remember the Tizer delivery lorry? Tizer (the appetiser) ... bottles had threaded bung stoppers with rubber ring seals, bungs were made of a black Bakelite/plastic like material. (Tizer factory used to be in Kingswood) Alpine deliveries came much later, hugely popular for a few years then they seemed to disappear as quickly as they had appeared. Who used to make their own with those awful (first generation) Soda Stream machine mixers? (about mid/late 70's I think) Thinking of street door to door deliveries from yesteryear........ We all remember 'the milkman' of course.... but we had so many other regular 'door-knockers' back in the day.... The... Breadman/Baker .. Butcher meat deliveries .. The Coalman .. The Esso Blue/Pink Paraffin man (for the paraffin heater, those were the days, remember the 'chimney' and trimming the tube like round wicks?) ... The Rent Man , The Insurance Man, The Weekly 'Loan' man .. I'm sure there were more.... For a time I remember we used to get the 'Fish n Chips' delivery van (all deep fried and cooked on the vehicle, (where was the Health & Safety brigade then?.. imagine a gurt big van trundling down your street with greasy steam streaming out of a chimney/flue on it's roof and a few gallons of boiling hot cooking oil sloshing about in the fryers in the back behind the driver/cook/server! nowadays ... ) Then there was the 'travelling salesmen' who turned up now and again to demo the latest must-have vacuum cleaners... not to forget the Kleen-Ezy & Betterware catalogues and sellers, Avon ladies etc etc.... There must be more you can remember, who used to deliver in your street or knock on the door... (even the friendly (sometimes nuisance) neighbours who used to pop around to borrow a cup of sugar/ milk, shilling for the meter etc etc... That reminds me, The Meter Man (gas / electric who came to read the meters and empty the cash boxes... & the excitement when a rebate was due and he left little piles of shillings on the stairs. We even had a rental TV with a cashbox fitted on the back, we had to feed that with sixpences! to watch the telly and pay the monthly rental! Come on you Reds ... Who/what else can we remember from the 'good old days ' of door to door traders? Oh yeah, almost forgot, the 'rag n bone' man, who left bags in letterboxes for people to put old clothes etc in... or any old bikes metal etc... (didn't realise at the time, but looking back I bet they were Gasheads!... Sometimes they'd turn up to flog 'lucky heather', clothes pegs, and even tell your fortune for half a crown! ) :laugh:. The Football Pools man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 8 hours ago, WhistleHappy said: Remember the Tizer delivery lorry? Tizer (the appetiser) ... bottles had threaded bung stoppers with rubber ring seals, bungs were made of a black Bakelite/plastic like material. (Tizer factory used to be in Kingswood) Alpine deliveries came much later, hugely popular for a few years then they seemed to disappear as quickly as they had appeared. Who used to make their own with those awful (first generation) Soda Stream machine mixers? (about mid/late 70's I think) Thinking of street door to door deliveries from yesteryear........ We all remember 'the milkman' of course.... but we had so many other regular 'door-knockers' back in the day.... The... Breadman/Baker .. Butcher meat deliveries .. The Coalman .. The Esso Blue/Pink Paraffin man (for the paraffin heater, those were the days, remember the 'chimney' and trimming the tube like round wicks?) ... The Rent Man , The Insurance Man, The Weekly 'Loan' man .. I'm sure there were more.... For a time I remember we used to get the 'Fish n Chips' delivery van (all deep fried and cooked on the vehicle, (where was the Health & Safety brigade then?.. imagine a gurt big van trundling down your street with greasy steam streaming out of a chimney/flue on it's roof and a few gallons of boiling hot cooking oil sloshing about in the fryers in the back behind the driver/cook/server! nowadays ... ) Then there was the 'travelling salesmen' who turned up now and again to demo the latest must-have vacuum cleaners... not to forget the Kleen-Ezy & Betterware catalogues and sellers, Avon ladies etc etc.... There must be more you can remember, who used to deliver in your street or knock on the door... (even the friendly (sometimes nuisance) neighbours who used to pop around to borrow a cup of sugar/ milk, shilling for the meter etc etc... That reminds me, The Meter Man (gas / electric who came to read the meters and empty the cash boxes... & the excitement when a rebate was due and he left little piles of shillings on the stairs. We even had a rental TV with a cashbox fitted on the back, we had to feed that with sixpences! to watch the telly and pay the monthly rental! Come on you Reds ... Who/what else can we remember from the 'good old days ' of door to door traders? Oh yeah, almost forgot, the 'rag n bone' man, who left bags in letterboxes for people to put old clothes etc in... or any old bikes metal etc... (didn't realise at the time, but looking back I bet they were Gasheads!... Sometimes they'd turn up to flog 'lucky heather', clothes pegs, and even tell your fortune for half a crown! ) :laugh:. Oh, and lets not forget Uncle Eric who called on a Tuesday evening to help Mum make the bed while Dad was at skittles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54-46 Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 11 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said: Cream Soda - bloody foul stuff.... Like the pic, but confusion continued when I found this one. I’m still sticking with Alpine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 5 hours ago, 54-46 said: Like the pic, but confusion continued when I found this one. I’m still sticking with Alpine! I remember it being Alpine in BS4. You would put the empty bottles out with a note stuffed in the neck to say what flavours you wanted and the coins under the bottle. It was slightly cheaper if you purchased 3 bottles and it caused many a family argument as fizzy drinks were a rare treat. I was allowed one glass of squash a day and the rest of the time I had to drink water, and NO ONE drank water back in those days. I used to think my parents were mean but maybe they were just early adapters/trendsetters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septic Peg Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 20 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said: Cream Soda - bloody foul stuff.... Can just about remember the Corona/Cresta man. And the taste of Cream Soda still haunts me to this day. My Uncle & Aunt always had Cream Soda at their house and would make me drink it, even when it make me want to puke. And my uncle wonders why we no longer speak. Fewk him the pr1ck. I'll never forgive or forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwwtk Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 17 hours ago, Septic Peg said: And the taste of Cream Soda still haunts me to this day. My Uncle & Aunt always had Cream Soda at their house and would make me drink it, even when it make me want to puke. I used to actually enjoy Cream Soda as a kid! Tried some a few months back and couldn't believe I had ever drunk the stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 3 hours ago, richwwtk said: I used to actually enjoy Cream Soda as a kid! Tried some a few months back and couldn't believe I had ever drunk the stuff! Same here mate, I bought a pack of six from Sainsburys. I`d forgotten how sickly it was - I drank half a can and threw the other five away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slippin cider Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Corona man I remember..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Corona in Glawster. Used to go camping, and raid the depot....too much pop, and ended up chucking on the camp fire, so that they exploded. Happy, kleptomaniac days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 23 minutes ago, Juan Kerr said: Corona in Glawster. Used to go camping, and raid the depot....too much pop, and ended up chucking on the camp fire, so that they exploded. Happy, kleptomaniac days. Reminds me of when we used to raid the old Badger Beer depot in Taunton and nick all the part filled bottles that had been returned by the pubs as defective. I drunk some bloody foul stuff back then, I recall one night we lifted a full crate of Cherry B from there - why FFS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 On 21/01/2018 at 17:00, RedM said: I remember it being Alpine in BS4. You would put the empty bottles out with a note stuffed in the neck to say what flavours you wanted and the coins under the bottle. It was slightly cheaper if you purchased 3 bottles and it caused many a family argument as fizzy drinks were a rare treat. I was allowed one glass of squash a day and the rest of the time I had to drink water, and NO ONE drank water back in those days. I used to think my parents were mean but maybe they were just early adapters/trendsetters Yes, Alpine Soft Drinks Limited had a base on Bonville Road, Brislington Trading Estate with around 10 Bedford TK lorries going out 6 days a week. BS4 was probably a Saturday round as they were half days and the rounds were kept local in order to finish early. I left school in 1977 and my first job was as a Driver's Mate for them. First wage, just over £18. One guy could even carry a dozen bottle in his hand and under his arms !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 2 hours ago, RedLionLad said: Yes, Alpine Soft Drinks Limited had a base on Bonville Road, Brislington Trading Estate with around 10 Bedford TK lorries going out 6 days a week. BS4 was probably a Saturday round as they were half days and the rounds were kept local in order to finish early. I left school in 1977 and my first job was as a Driver's Mate for them. First wage, just over £18. *One guy could even carry a dozen bottle in his hand and under his arms !!! *is it true that when he wore his 'special shorts' his party trick was to carry a thirteenth bottle ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 We had the Alpine Lorry in Keynsham, up until mid 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 20 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said: We had the Alpine Lorry in Keynsham, up until mid 80s. Don't forger before that you also had Horace Batchelor Dept 1 in Keynsham ..... That's Keynsham spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydQ8I-qLH4o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 47 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said: We had the Alpine Lorry in Keynsham, up until mid 80s. I did one or two of the Keynsham rounds from time to time.....Charlton Road.....and the houses with lots of bloody steps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 18 hours ago, WhistleHappy said: *is it true that when he wore his 'special shorts' his party trick was to carry a thirteenth bottle ? ....and hide a 14th completely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 On 21/01/2018 at 09:00, Juan Kerr said: Dandelion and burdock.....that is the rinsings from Lucifer's ringpiece. I had the Alpine Dandelion and Burdock once. Your description of this foul brew is accurate, sir. Indeed, I had a couple of swigs of it c.1978 and just your mention of it has temporarily returned the taste to my mouth now. I had two swigs as I couldn't believe the first swig I had, about an hour earlier, had tasted as awful as I had experienced. It had. Btw, I was in Whitchurch in the 70s and I'm pretty sure Alpine came around at about 5-6 ish on Fridays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 On 21/01/2018 at 09:00, Juan Kerr said: Dandelion and burdock.....that is the rinsings from Lucifer's ringpiece. @handsofclay Perhaps this would be more to your taste Sirs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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