OK - This is quite a wide topic. What Ice-Cream Vans do you remember, from what era, and what did they sell?

Personnally, as a relative young 'un (which, in the scheme of things, is comparitively boring) I remember, around Chapeltown, Mr. Ronksley (purple/pink/blue van), Mr. Whippy (blue and white) and, oh dear, a pink and white van... the name escapes me...

Can anybody help out?

I can recall one van with the name Angelo written on it. This stuck in my head as the Brotherhood of Man had a record in the charts by the same name at this time! (Infact, one sad person, whose name shall remain private actually owned said record.)

I too remember Mr Whippy but that's about it. However, the sound of the ice cream van's bells reminds me of summers long gone, a Saturday or Sunday evening at my grandparents' house on School Road, Crookes with the back door open, Black Beauty theme tune eminating from the lounge and me aged about 7 years old with not a care in the world. (However, I did have half my gob ripped out courtesy of the dental practice just up yonder!)

Favourite lollies? I always liked the white Haunted House one with a ghost drawn in green which disappeared as you licked at it and I was always fond of the cider flavoured lollipops which I believe you can still get. Also, Funny Faces? And even Funny Feet. Or am I getting confuddled?

i remember the icecream man comming round on his trike {walls} in the 1950s ,is there anyone else here that old

Hulleys Ecclesfield had a very old Austin/Morris? van pos pre war very ornate I remember it was dumped in the gardens below the factory in the late 50's.

Living at Sheffield Lane Top, our main ice cream van was Hulley's, lovely ice cream, it was sad when they finally closed.

I remember going to Hulley's factory in the late 40s.
I think it was a Sunday outing when I visited my grandparents at Shiregreen.
The ice cream man who come round Parson Cross in the late 40's early 50,s had a very ornate van.I think it was Luigi's[sp].
We would clammer around when he made his stop near our house ,even though we had no money.A lucky kid would get a free wafer.
As an aside .Pre WW 2 most of the ice cream venders came from Italian Stock.I had a G,G,grandmother who was born in Italy.
One of my uncles had very Italian features and he used to work on the ice cream carts before I was born [1939] So My mother told me

Ther was a family in the city center "Granelli" (excuse the spelling) had icecream vans also had a shop many years ago up from rag n tag market I think the road was where the ponds forge roundabout is now also there was a family up city road "manfredis" had vans with thier names on
Does anyone remember the walls vans that were left hand drive old Ford Anglias they were made that way so the driver got out on the right side of the pavment, well thats what one guy told me then'

We used to have a "Ronskley's" van appear every Friday Saturday and Sunday. Sold ice-cream as an aside- watches, games you name it he sold it. Bit of a chocolate chip del boy that one.

My dad used to own an icecream van about 10 years ago.
Pink and Cream Dulux Paint. Freds Ice's it was called.
Parked near Ecclesall Junior School and sometimes High Storrs School.

It was always a race to get there before the Sanellis van!

Originally posted by GJ2004
Ther was a family in the city center "Granelli" (excuse the spelling) had icecream vans also had a shop many years ago up from rag n tag market I think the road was where the ponds forge roundabout is now also there was a family up city road "manfredis" had vans with thier names on
Does anyone remember the walls vans that were left hand drive old Ford Anglias they were made that way so the driver got out on the right side of the pavment, well thats what one gut told me then'

Still There. They have a sweetshop aswell. They keep all the vans in the yard behind the building. I would bet that the place hasn't changed for years!

Originally posted by Fowler
Still There. They have a sweetshop aswell. They keep all the vans in the yard behind the building. I would bet that the place hasn't changed for years!
You suprised me there I thought all that area had gone

Originally posted by GJ2004
You suprised me there I thought all that area had gone

There is very little left of the are. There is the pub just up the road too. Something OX........Closed now i think students live there!

Originally posted by Fowler
There is very little left of the are. There is the pub just up the road too. Something OX........Closed now i think students live there!

old harrow next to the sweet shop...and a car park where the blue ball used to be and the durham ox is soap dodger accomadation

No one's mentioned Mr Softy yet.

Which did you prefer, the hard slab type between 2 wafers or the softer stuff that came out of the pump type machine?

Raspberry juice was a must and a dip in the hundreds and thousands.

I think Hulley's used to make the tub ice cream that they served in theatres as well.

Do you remeber the smell of the van. It was a mixture of sweet ice cream, fruit juice from the lollies and diesel fumes from the engine which they had to keep running. There was always a strong draft or warm air came out of a grill on the side from the cooling system.

PS, our cat liked Mr Softy ice cream!

when i lived in stannington 30 years ago a kid got run over by a mr softy van i liked the logo on the van but as a child it scared me to death for some strange reason:loopy: :loopy: :loopy:

ice cream man on a trike,his name was john ,he was a friend of my parents,i remember him in the 60s though:)

yes late 50s and 60s was this in attercliffe

Originally posted by dave50
i remember the icecream man comming round on his trike {walls} in the 1950s ,is there anyone else here that old
i remember him do you remember
when they came round with horse
and fancy ice cream cart

When I was a young-un in Owlerton Dad used to tell us that when the ice cream van was playing his jingle it was to let everyone know he had run out of ice cream.

Happy Days!

The worst Ice Cream Van I ever saw was called Mr Flaver. He lived on Wordsworth near the filling station, and would plug his freezer into the the streetlamp overnight He had loads of pictures of different lollies on the window, but all he'd got in his freezer were Zooms and FABs. He used to break the flakes in half, so his 99s were 49s. He was really miserable too - hated kids. He didn't last long though, went back to being a window cleaner after a few months.

Originally posted by Bushbaby
The worst Ice Cream Van I ever saw was called Mr Flaver. He lived on Wordsworth near the filling station, and would plug his freezer into the the streetlamp overnight He had loads of pictures of different lollies on the window, but all he'd got in his freezer were Zooms and FABs. He used to break the flakes in half, so his 99s were 49s. He was really miserable too - hated kids. He didn't last long though, went back to being a window cleaner after a few months.

Did he change his name to kirky :heyhey: :heyhey: :heyhey:

I worked at Hulleys in the 70s packing tubs, screwballs and using the piping machine . the icecream came out continuously so if you got behind filling the empty tub you were in trouble.
the fruit in the icecream came in tins.
We had to wear little white wellies and a hair net -even the men lol.
My old school chum's dad was an icecream man -(manfredis)
in the shiregreen area.-60s 70s.
He lived on molineaux road.
Anyone remember him ,mr turner was his name forgotten his first name could have been fred.

Her name was Gillian, sadly she passed away a few years ago.

I lived on Princess Street Norfolk Bridge and remember the ice cream trike in the 50's also remember helping the Sunday paper man who used a horse and cart, used to get 2/6p and some seasoned yorkshire pudding from an old lady on the route, food for the gods on a cold winters morning. We would go back to the stables for a ride on Dolly the horse, wonderful memories

I don't think anyone has mentioned Taggi's icecream, One of the best. Their shop was somewhere at the bottom of Gleadless Rd, I think I have read Plain Talker remarking about it .

Going to the catholic schools I went at the same time as the Granellis and the Manfredis, And on Holy days of obligation (days off school ) Carios, at the top of Scotland St used to bring round trays of icecream sandwiches to the school for after we had done our stint in church.
After which we were left to wander the bombed buildings of which there were an awful lot.

Hazel

I'm talking 1960s here.
Something I could never understand was the "Walls" policy of selling Iced-Cream in rectangular chunks, and having cones with an oblong container section, but they were each of different sizes, so that when you put the iced-cream in the cone, it wobbled like fury.
It wasn't just a small amount of "play" in the dimensions, it was a totally diferent size and shape.

Perhaps it was designed by the same idiot who decided to put a hotel next to the Peace Gardens?

i remember taggys ice cream they were based at heeley also sanellas they parked up at endcliffe park (my ex used to work for them)and weston park

Originally posted by lint
i remember taggys ice cream they were based at heeley also sanellas they parked up at endcliffe park (my ex used to work for them)and weston park

Just found this thread. My grandparents used to live in Darnall - we used to always het either Manfredi's or Hill Top Dairies (?)

I remember that one being a favourite.. just in time for the wrestling on 'World of Sport'!!!

Glory days.

'Aggie' used to come around Foxhill in the late 1940's/50's. Used to run outsoide wi mi dads pint mug, gorrit filled fer a tanner!! Mam used to buy a Walls 'brick' for Sunday tea. Still remember the Walls van's chimes.

in the early nineties mr softy used to come round Intake,
I loved it because he played the A-Team theme tune...
specials were the best, ice-cream with an ice lolly in the top

My Auntie used to own an ice-cream van (lucky me) free cornets on a sunday afternnon and realy proper flakes yes the realy ones not those cheaper ones that you sometimes get.

My favourite though was the screwballs the ones where you found a bubble in the bottom that tasted lovely? I used to get 2 in my screwball ice-cream.

Originally posted by tara
I worked at Hulleys in the 70s packing tubs, screwballs and using the piping machine . the icecream came out continuously so if you got behind filling the empty tub you were in trouble.
the fruit in the icecream came in tins.
We had to wear little white wellies and a hair net -even the men lol.
My old school chum's dad was an icecream man -(manfredis)
in the shiregreen area.-60s 70s.
He lived on molineaux road.
Anyone remember him ,mr turner was his name forgotten his first name could have been fred.

Her name was Gillian, sadly she passed away a few years ago.


was hulleys on barnsley road ??

i rember my mum and aunt workin in a ice cream place that was on bottom of barnsley road just befor the high greve pub,

if it was not this one does anyone rember the name of it.

Originally posted by tara
I worked at Hulleys in the 70s packing tubs, screwballs and using the piping machine . the icecream came out continuously so if you got behind filling the empty tub you were in trouble.
the fruit in the icecream came in tins.
We had to wear little white wellies and a hair net -even the men lol.
My old school chum's dad was an icecream man -(manfredis)
in the shiregreen area.-60s 70s.
He lived on molineaux road.
Anyone remember him ,mr turner was his name forgotten his first name could have been fred.

Her name was Gillian, sadly she passed away a few years ago.


i use to live on the flower estate in the 70's & i can recall an ice cream van called (yankee boy) does anybody else remember it?

Midland Counties Ices,used to be on Burnaby Street.All the ices were wrapped,and came from Birmingham.
Truffellis from Owlerton,there's was nice ice cream.:thumbsup:

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER A ICE CREAM MAN CALLED
JOE LUMBY, HIS VAN WAS A LITTLE THREE WHEELER.
HE DELIVERED ROUND THE PARSON CROSS AREA IN
THE LATE 40s AND EARLY 50s.

Irene
I can only remember Hully's and Walls ice creams, but there was always one outside Western Park gates, one one each end, always had my cone with a choc flake on top.

what about one called pino's, a little italian man in a little fiat van used to come around the delves avenue/ hackenthorpe area in the early eighties.

Originally posted by oldtimer
Still remember the Walls van's chimes.


Was that "dum dum, dum dum dum!"?

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
Was that "dum dum, dum dum dum!"?

I thought it was more like "dee dum dum dum dee deeee" But that could have been manfredis.

A mate of mine had all his windows double glazed so that his kids wouldn't hear the ice cream van......

J. Clayton (Hillsborough) had several vans in the 1950s and 1960s. John Ronksley is still going in Hillsborough - he and his parents used to work for Clayton's. There were also Granelli's, Truffelli's and (a long time ago) Molinari's. Early on summer Sunday mornings in the 1930s my grandfather used to send my dad on his bike to fetch a load of dry ice (from Granelli's in Broad Street I think). Grandma would then make the ice cream in her "copper" and they would cycle to Ashopton to sell cornets and sandwiches.

adsetts at manor top they used to make the favourite JUBBLY,S the son went on to make sheffield insulations the company it is today and the building on hallam campus named after him all from a little ice cream factory on the manor it was,nt really it was arbourthorne

I remember an ice cream cart that used to come to Attercliffe in the 50's. He used to stand at the bottom of Norman Street/Clay Street/Brompton Road. Thick yellow stuff it was and very tasty. We used to take a cup down and get it filled and have a handful of wafers to go with it for sixpence. Or you could have a cornet.
Can't remember whose it was but it was the best I've ever tasted.:thumbsup:

i remember the icecream man comming round on his trike {walls} in the 1950s ,is there anyone else here that old
I lived in front of Matt Monfreddie,s (penistone rd) Mum sent us for lg milk jug of icecream every sun & skimm milk was free for the taking,uh did you say van's, our icecream was deliverd by horse & buggy,nice paint job & all.:)

i remember the icecream man comming round on his trike {walls} in the 1950s ,is there anyone else here that old
Yes I'm afraid I am, I too remember the walls trike and my favourite, snow fruit lollies, taggies, Mr whippy.

Mr. Whippy's vans were pink and white. They played greensleeves and were owned by Northern Dairies. Based at Sandygate behind the plough, its houses now. They were bought by Walls after a few years, but the ice cream was never the same because they used an inferior sterile mix.

Walls vans were blue and white sold solid ice cream and played a two note bing bong. When Walls aquired Mr. Whippy they were based together on John St. opposite the football ground.

I used to drive the Yankee Boy van round the Flower estate at weekends - for a while any way. It was owned by Trufelli's ( montfredi's), based off Peniston Road, behind the Swan factory. Most of their fleet was loose ice cream vans.

Ther was a family in the city center "Granelli" (excuse the spelling) had icecream vans also had a shop many years ago up from rag n tag market I think the road was where the ponds forge roundabout is now also there was a family up city road "manfredis" had vans with thier names on
Does anyone remember the walls vans that were left hand drive old Ford Anglias they were made that way so the driver got out on the right side of the pavment, well thats what one guy told me then'



Granelli's shop is still there selling exactly the same things. Apart from its ice cream, it sells 'Old fashioned spice at an old fashioned price'. That's the logo over the shop window.