Soft drink delivery in the 90s - what was the name?

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• gdjman68wasdigi Posts: 21,705

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  17/02/15 - 14:32 #2

  daza1978 wrote: »

  Hi all,
  
  Does anyone remember the name of the company that delivered soft drinks to the customers homes in the 90s in the south of the country? Customers would leave the empty bottles out for the driver to collect.
  
  Thanks!

  
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• CaptainObvious_ Posts: 3,881

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  17/02/15 - 14:33 #3

  Maine?

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• Tess-g Posts: 29,048

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  17/02/15 - 14:34 #4

  Corona?

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• TrollHunter Posts: 12,496

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  17/02/15 - 14:34 #5

  Corona seems to sound familiar.

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• TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462

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  17/02/15 - 14:35 #6

  TrollHunter wrote: »

  Corona seems to sound familiar.

  
  http://thebearbrewpub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Corona.jpg
  
  

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• An Thropologist Posts: 39,854

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  17/02/15 - 14:35 #7

  Two soft drink brands I remember, although they predate the 90s, are Corona and Cresta.
  
  I remember drinking them as a treat but have no idea how they were distributed.
  
  Cresta had a bear as a sort of logo or symbol I seem to remember.

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• The Martian Posts: 1,610

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  17/02/15 - 14:35 #8

  I remember Bon Accord in the 90s. They would deliver when I was at school but I remember seeing the lorries out and about.

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• daza1978 Posts: 493

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  17/02/15 - 14:36 #9

  Yeah, I think it probably was before the 90s. My friend and I were talking about soft drinks and got onto the subject of the delivery of drinks as a kid came to mind. I just can't remember the name.

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• gother Posts: 14,705

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  17/02/15 - 14:36 #10

  Alpine was our local pop man as we called him.

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• TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462

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  17/02/15 - 14:36 #11

  It was Maine here. I remember the van running the roads in the 90s.
  
  http://www.mainesoftdrinks.co.uk/

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• daza1978 Posts: 493

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  17/02/15 - 14:39 #12

  Thanks but none of those names ring a bell sadly.

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• nessyfencer Posts: 9,195

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  17/02/15 - 14:42 #13

  The Martian wrote: »

  I remember Bon Accord in the 90s. They would deliver when I was at school but I remember seeing the lorries out and about.

  
  
  
  https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/318861_525455627482109_160856698_n.jpg?oh=4cfa9daf8f3039f7f574b7694381cbb9&oe=558BFBCE

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• vierte Posts: 4,286

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  17/02/15 - 14:42 #14

  TheTruth1983 wrote: »

  It was Maine here. I remember the van running the roads in the 90s.
  
  http://www.mainesoftdrinks.co.uk/

  
  I have quite a few neighbours who still get it delivered.
  
  We had Rosses I think it was and then Maine years later.

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• annette kurten Posts: 39,543

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  17/02/15 - 14:45 #15

  we used to get The Corona Man in the sixties and seventies.

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• Jean-Francois Posts: 2,301

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  17/02/15 - 14:46 #16

  Years and years back, probably in the late fifties, early sixties in East London, there was a firm called Biddle, or Biddel, and Gingell.
  The kids used to say, "Has Billy and Ginger been round with the Tizer and lemonade yet?"

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• The Martian Posts: 1,610

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  17/02/15 - 14:46 #17

  nessyfencer wrote: »

  
  
  https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/318861_525455627482109_160856698_n.jpg?oh=4cfa9daf8f3039f7f574b7694381cbb9&oe=558BFBCE

  
  I remember those lorries.

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• daza1978 Posts: 493

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  17/02/15 - 14:48 #18

  Thanks for the replies but still can't remember the name. Mr Google isn't helping much!

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• daza1978 Posts: 493

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  17/02/15 - 14:50 #19

  The name Bilco comes to mind. Is that a delivery service?

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• TommyNooka Posts: 2,396

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  17/02/15 - 14:51 #20

  gother wrote: »

  Alpine was our local pop man as we called him.

  
  Same here, that was in the Glasgow area.
  But we wouldn't call it 'pop' because, as everyone knows, it's 'ginger'!

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• nessyfencer Posts: 9,195

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  17/02/15 - 14:51 #21

  The Martian wrote: »

  I remember those lorries.

  
  The noise of them coming down the road was awesome.

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• annette kurten Posts: 39,543

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  17/02/15 - 14:54 #22

  daza1978 wrote: »

  Thanks for the replies but still can't remember the name. Mr Google isn't helping much!

  
  was it national or regional?

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• The Martian Posts: 1,610

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  17/02/15 - 15:13 #23

  nessyfencer wrote: »

  The noise of them coming down the road was awesome.

  
  http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41570_4601638057_5462739_n.jpg

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• idlewilde Posts: 8,698

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  17/02/15 - 15:23 #24

  They were Barr drinks round here I think.

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• calamity Posts: 12,894

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  17/02/15 - 15:39 #25

  TommyNooka wrote: »

  Same here, that was in the Glasgow area.
  But we wouldn't call it 'pop' because, as everyone knows, it's 'ginger'!

  of ourse its ginger....
  we had the Alpine lorry and another one , now was it.. Bon Accord...

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• biger Posts: 33

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  17/02/15 - 15:41 #26

  bon accord was big in scotland

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