Guest liamdsmith Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 There has been talk on here of the Alpine Pop man many times before, so I know this is not a new memory to raise, but I wanted to see if we could get a definitive list of the flavours? Unfortunately(or fortunately) we were never affluent enough to have Pop delivered, although I remember endless arguments with my mum about it, even offering to pay for it myself. If people on our street had pop delivered it certainly raised an eyebrow as they must be rich! This starter list is from my wife, who was rich enough to have Alipine delivered, and also remembers the hard delivery kids hanging off the wagon. Cherryade Pineapple(Poor mans Lilt) Limeade Cream Soda Cola Dandelion & Burdock Orangeade Lemonade Shandy Gingerade and was their an Iron-Bru type flavour? I can still picture the alpine logo, but does anyone have any pictures ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Alpine Soft Drinks Ltd Ravenscraig Rd, Cleggs La Indstl Est Manchester, Manchester, M38 9PU England Company Information employee size: 132 sales: £2.5M - £4.99M products: Bottled And Canned Soft Drinks Business Activity - Bottled and canned soft drinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacky Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Is that picture a bottle from your own personal collection Vox? Also is that an R Whites lemonade bottle just to the side? - were you a secret lemonade drinker???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Is that picture a bottle from your own personal collection Vox? Also is that an R Whites lemonade bottle just to the side? - were you a secret lemonade drinker???? No, I found it on someone's Facebook page. it was someone who used to work there. I've been looking for the page again but I can't remember what he was called Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacky Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 i remember the pop man coming around but couldnt say if it was Alpine or not! - were there others? Sometimes we might get a couple of bottles of Dandelion & Burdoch for my dad but more often than not it was a trip to the shops at Lowedges terminus, empties in hand to claim back the 2p deposit! Dad used to treat me to a packet of "Panini" to get me to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Alpine Soft Drinks Ltd Ravenscraig Rd, Cleggs La Indstl Est Manchester, Manchester, M38 9PU England Company Information employee size: 132 sales: £2.5M - £4.99M products: Bottled And Canned Soft Drinks Business Activity - Bottled and canned soft drinks I still have a load of those old Alpine pop bottles, and also a crate (although I think crate may be Magills rather than Alpine as we had them as well after we moved house. Initially the bottles, with their rubber seal screw tops, were ideal for storing photographic darkroom chemicals in but when I started doing home brewed beer the bottles came into their own as the thick glass and screw top makes them ideal for being washed and refilled many times over (with homebrew) and they are capable of withstanding the gas pressure involved with brewed alcoholic drinks (until the plastic cap starts to crack. It was when I started brewing beer 12 bottles at a time that the crate came in handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 There has been talk on here of the Alpine Pop man many times before, so I know this is not a new memory to raise, but I wanted to see if we could get a definitive list of the flavours? Unfortunately(or fortunately) we were never affluent enough to have Pop delivered, although I remember endless arguments with my mum about it, even offering to pay for it myself. If people on our street had pop delivered it certainly raised an eyebrow as they must be rich! This starter list is from my wife, who was rich enough to have Alipine delivered, and also remembers the hard delivery kids hanging off the wagon. Cherryade Pineapple(Poor mans Lilt) Limeade Cream Soda Cola Dandelion & Burdock Orangeade Lemonade Shandy Gingerade and was their an Iron-Bru type flavour? I can still picture the alpine logo, but does anyone have any pictures ? Cream Soda was an unusual one as different manufacturers had different variations on it such as, - Cream Soda Ice Cream Soda American Cream Soda It was colourless like lemonade buthad a fairly smooth taste and a strong flavour of Vanilla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest albionnil Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 i worked for alpine in the 80's in Tipton, West Mids some more flavours we did were Blackberry Mixed Fruit Peach Strawberry Ginger Beer (not gingerade, sorry) Passion Fruit Grapefrui Raspberryade some of these were only promotional and didn't last long. we had 8 standard flavours ( which varied on where you lived, if you lived in Scotland for example you got iron brew as a standard flavour) we also did smaller bottles later on Ritzi Cola Big Apple Drifter Christmas time we also did bottles of squash and cordial,orange, blackcurrant, lime, and lemon, also small bottles of mixer drinks, ginger ale, bitter lemon, tonic water We also had a branch that delivered to shops, pubs etc Called Maxipops, same bottles different labels i was one of the hard delivery kids that used to hang off the wagon oh the memories, job was brilliant, pay was crap though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 i worked for alpine in the 80's in Tipton, West Mids some more flavours we did were Blackberry Mixed Fruit Peach Strawberry Ginger Beer (not gingerade, sorry) Passion Fruit Grapefruit some of these were only promotional and didn't last long. we had 8 standard flavours ( which varied on where you lived, if you lived in Scotland for example you got iron brew as a standard flavour) we also did smaller bottles later on Ritzi Cola Big Apple Drifter Christmas time we also did bottles of squash and cordial,orange, blackcurrant, lime, and lemon, also small bottles of mixer drinks, ginger ale, bitter lemon, tonic water We also had a branch that delivered to shops, pubs etc Called Maxipops, same bottles different labels i was one of the hard delivery kids that used to hang off the wagon oh the memories, job was brilliant, pay was crap though Welcome to SheffieldHistory albionill and thank you for posting. Now that you have mentionaed it "big apple" sounds like a flavour I only ever associated with Alpine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Prefer a drop of Davenports myself ... pop from the 60's - home delivered along with beer for Father, of course. Welcome to SheffieldHistory albionill and thank you for posting. Now that you have mentionaed it "big apple" sounds like a flavour I only ever associated with Alpine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Charlie B Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 There has been talk on here of the Alpine Pop man many times before, so I know this is not a new memory to raise, but I wanted to see if we could get a definitive list of the flavours? Unfortunately(or fortunately) we were never affluent enough to have Pop delivered, although I remember endless arguments with my mum about it, even offering to pay for it myself. If people on our street had pop delivered it certainly raised an eyebrow as they must be rich! This starter list is from my wife, who was rich enough to have Alipine delivered, and also remembers the hard delivery kids hanging off the wagon. Cherryade Pineapple(Poor mans Lilt) Limeade Cream Soda Cola Dandelion & Burdock Orangeade Lemonade Shandy Gingerade and was their an Iron-Bru type flavour? I can still picture the alpine logo, but does anyone have any pictures ? http://www.facebook.com/groups/10732708108/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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