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clan chieftain
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 Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:19 pm Post subject: Ice cream vans. |
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Years ago we used to get half a dozen ice cream vans coming round every day. We would be sitting watching the telly and all we could hear was chimes. Now we don't get any. That's when you could go a wafer. Now that shops are open all night the vans are not needed. Same with milk floats. Don't know when I last saw one. Do companies still deliver milk now.?
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Riley Blue
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We have a daily ice cream van, a fortnightly rag and bone man and I've seen coal in sacks on a lorry and a milk bottles being delivered. I thought I'd gone back in time but no, this was Chesterfield in 2015.
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clan chieftain
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:shock:dont know when I last seen a ragman. That really is back to the 60s.
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Penman
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Hi
I have my milk delivered in glass bottles, the cream rises for my cereal and it tastes far better than the homogenised milk in plastic bottles,
Until the F&M I used to get green top, which in glass bottles means unpasturised, unfortunately now I can only get Gold or Silver top.
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lowdrag
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Between Portchester and Portsmouth there used to be a great caff next to Vosper & Thorneycroft. Opposite was the CANDA factory, and for years I didn't know it stood for C&A. There was a little road that headed away from the water and passed under the railway line, but the bridge was so tiny that there was a 7ft limit warning. I was heading north, the ice cream van south and I flashed my lights and sounded my horn to warn him, but to no avail. The Moggie 1000 based ice cream van arrived at the bridge, but a flat bed came out the other side.  |
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Peter_L
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peter scott
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That's interesting! So we have paid for the BBC's services so we are not permitted to see the free content. I wonder if you can see it if you haven't paid the licence fee?
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| Quote: | | We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. |
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roverdriver
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Interesting story. I turned five while on the ship to Australia, but have a very strong memory of the family standing around a bicycle-like conveyance with a large box at the front (actually of course a tricycle) with my Dad buying an icecream for each of us. That must have been in London, just before we left, so late 1949.
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Peter_L
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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That's interesting! So we have paid for the BBC's services so we are not permitted to see the free content. I wonder if you can see it if you haven't paid the licence fee?
Peter
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Hello Peter S.
Before now, I had no idea that some video that can be seen outside the UK, can't be viewed there. Like others on here I am used to it working the other way. I know I never went to accounting school but what, if any, financial difference does it make to the BBC not to show this video. It is not as if it were a multi million £/$ box office movie. |
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peter scott
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Luca's in Musselburgh have a couple of unusual ones:
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Ray White
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| Peter, I would have thought the temptation to re body the 'ice cream' Rolls 20 to realise it's financial potential would be almost irresistible? |
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lowdrag
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| Ah, how we awaited the chimes from the Verreccia van in Portsmouth in the 50s! I wonder if the firm is still going now? They used to have shops in North End and Southsea. Two wafers and loads of luvverly ice cream slapped between, and if hot you licked round and round before it melted, the wafers got closer and closer together until you finally finished the lot. |
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clan chieftain
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I remember that Rolls Royce ice cream van at a classic car show years ago. I think it was at Dunbar. There was a flap lifted up in the back and the driver could stand in the back on the ground to sell the ice cream.
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