Does anybody remember the alpine man?
A big lorry type vehicle used to turn up round our way (gleadless) on a thursday,i think (only used to see him on school hols) with crates of fizzy pop,he had young lads that worked on the lorry who's job it was to distribute the pop to various houses,was always impressed as a kid that they could carry two bottles of pop in one hand.
The prices if i remember was really cheap,something like 7p for big bottle,we always ended up with about five bottles,pineapple was my favourite.:)

Hi Deano, before they were called Alpine I think they were called S.Y.D.S. South Yorkshire Direct Supplies, and they always had a lorry full of pop, and a lot of different flavours.:thumbsup:

loads of exotic flavours or so it seemed to a young lad in the seventies:D seem to remember the lorries where yellow.

ya saying about alpine.which i have fond memories of sitting on the door step guzzling a full bottle of dandelion and burdock on a hot day but does anyone remember "THE CORONA" POP DELIVERY SERVICE???? whatever happened to them? :D

Fond memories of Alpine deliveries in the Wincobank area circa 1974/5 come flooding back. Actually, I don't know why I say"fond"; the drinks, despite tasting delicious to my then untrained and unsophisticated palate, were probably quite dangerous. The lemonade was definately liquid nitrogen, and the fluorescent orangeade must be related to the defoliant unleashed upon North Vietnam by American bombers.

There used to be Cresta vans too selling Cresta (it's frothy man) and Liptons tea vans, but I've no idea what they sold.

Originally posted by glaham
There used to be Cresta vans too selling Cresta (it's frothy man) and Liptons tea vans, but I've no idea what they sold.


Coffee :P and still do :thumbsup:

Yeah, we had the Corona man - I'd never heard of the Alpine guy until my wife mentioned him recently. Apparently her mum used to quite fancy the one that came to their house - Stradbroke Road way.

Originally posted by glaham
There used to be Cresta vans too selling Cresta (it's frothy man) and Liptons tea vans, but I've no idea what they sold. Yeah, I loved Cresta, it was addictive and was frothy as it was portrayed.
Alpine I believe where still going recently but not sure if they exist now.

Alpine delivered around the end of Wordsworth around '96/'97 but not for long. Found this though where Alpine is mentioned:-

http://www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk/bpfood98.htm

Does anybody remember the alpine man?
A big lorry type vehicle used to turn up round our way (gleadless) on a thursday,i think (only used to see him on school hols) with crates of fizzy pop,he had young lads that worked on the lorry who's job it was to distribute the pop to various houses,was always impressed as a kid that they could carry two bottles of pop in one hand.
The prices if i remember was really cheap,something like 7p for big bottle,we always ended up with about five bottles,pineapple was my favourite.:)
I used to work for first syds and then alpine and believe me if the lad could only carry two bottles in each hand he was no good

I used to work for first syds and then alpine and believe me if the lad could only carry two bottles in each hand he was no good
There was also Davenports, they used to deliver beer as well as pop, and I think ice cream, I THINK they had a garage in Upperthorpe.

we had "Jone's pop's" deliver, i remember the lime and lemon was so flurescent our mouths turned bright green

What about Fentemans ??

I used to love their pineapple drink.

Mmm, American Cream soda, Dandelion and Burdock and Raspberryade!

I remember the alpine man, he used to go to my grans house (blackstock road) on Saturday teatime, they used to carry about 4 bottles in each hand!!
We lived at Heeley and I was dead jealous that we didn't have the alpine man, that was until my dad brought home a Sodastream!! I was so impressed with that, mind you I was about 10.

We used to have SYDS in Rawmarsh. Funny little bottles with a rubbery shaped cork. Lots of different flavours too. But I remember my parents also saying Hagues (as in Williams family) used to deliver our pop too.

My aunty and uncle had Davenports Beer at Home.

I used to sell beer for DAVENPORTS Stout was Three Shillings and Six pence for 6 bottle's delivered to your door They operated from Clowne in Derbyshire

Mmm, American Cream soda, Dandelion and Burdock and Raspberryade!

I think we must have had the same Alpine man!

We lived at Grenoside and had the exact same, plus a Pineapple.

Seem to think the lorry was a "sh**y brown" colour with the ALPINE in big yellow letters.

Jim:thumbsup:

We were too poor to be allowed anything from the Alpine man. Dilute pop, that's all I could have.

I can't tell you how much I coverted the Soda Stream. Get busy with the fizzy.

Funnily enough we had some one knock on our door at the weekend asking if we wanted any pop delivering on a regular basis. Don't know who it was though.

for att Surfinjim Yes ,I think we did have the same bloke.Little bloke,brown "cowgown" But I thought the colour of the truck was more of a Sahara Yellow Thats what Mummy called it Did you have the stone Gallon jugs of Ginger pop?? Great stuff I think it was Friday he called around tea time in Ecclesfield Good Health

i remember alpine vans. it was *****. like water.

Only just found this post. We had the Alpine man at pitsmoor, but strangely my other half did too - and he's from Leeds! We have another pop man delivering these days and when he first called it brought back memories of the Alpine lorry.

Alpine man!! memories of childhood in Crookes, mucky yellow flat bed lorry thing and pinappleade!!
We still have pop man on t'cross but not Alpine. My hubby cant do without Cream Soda - bright green in colour and he loves it.
Give me Volvic anyday.

We had Alpine, must have been late 60's early 70's, Colley Cres, Parson cross.

We had Alpine, must have been late 60's early 70's, Colley Cres, Parson cross.
That where we still have pop man Birty on t'cross. Colley!!

Alpine used to deliver pop around Handsworth mid 1970's to about mid 1980's after that we had Jones till about mid 90's

That where we still have pop man Birty on t'cross. Colley!!
Do you live on Colley Cresc? We were at No. 20, moved when I got married though in 1974. Had a run accross there a few weeks ago, it looked quite different with the trees on the field.

Yes, Birty!!! Love it. Can see your old house from my hall window, Green side door, next door but one to caravan man!!

:loopy: :loopy: Oops, lost plot no, I live Colley Ave....

Worked there for years upto the day they closed it down (Just before xmas 1998 ).

The people who mentioned the colour of the trucks where both right, When I started in 1988 they where just finishing re-painting them all. The original brown ones had a straight fonted text and I believe it was underlined then the line would go up and down and was meant to look like the Alps mountains.
The Bright Yellow livery used a more rounded font and had a big smiley face that was meant to be a gas bubble but looked more like the Acid smiley that was popular at the time.

When the company closed quite a few of the drivers continued there rounds using Osbornes Soft Drinks, I know at least 2 are still there.

The trick to carrying the bottles was to hang them by just under the top from between your fingers. Use your right hand to place one between each pair of fingers on your left hand with 2 between the last finger and thumb (5 in total). You can then lay more above these going up between your arm and your side. You would then lift 4 or 5 more off the ground with your right hand . This came in handy after the christmas hols when peeps where just returning there empties without buying anymore. Hurt like hell when you first started but once your fingers had been bent into shape in got much easier :)

i worked for alpine pop in the late 70s as a canvasser


Wages - £1 a day + 15p for every new weekly order of 3 bottles of pop:o


ps the limeade wasnt always limeade:gag:

The day the Alpine man came was always the highlight of the week. Bottles seemed huge when you were a kid and the colours were really bright, i used to love cream soda but i cant stand it now far too bloody sweet for me!

As a kid we thought we were drunk on there Shandy cus the label said it contained real beer NOT.

the American cream soda looked like dirty dish water.

As a kid we thought we were drunk on there Shandy cus the label said it contained real beer NOT.

the American cream soda looked like dirty dish water.

Think you may have got the wrong company.

Alpine Shandy was made with Real Beer. At least the stuff being sold from the late 80's well into the nineties when it was 1.5%. They then had to drop it to .5% has new laws meant they would have had to be licenced to sell it..

Their cream soda could not be confused with dirty dish water (that would have been the ginger beer :) ). Their Cream Soda was GREEN...

Mmmmmm... Alpine pineappleade - delicious! I don't suppose it had ever seen a pineapple but it was still delicious. And there was plenty of in in the two-pint bottle (this was in the Good Old Days before everything went metric apart from draught beer).

Think you may have got the wrong company.

Alpine Shandy was made with Real Beer. At least the stuff being sold from the late 80's well into the nineties when it was 1.5%. They then had to drop it to .5% has new laws meant they would have had to be licenced to sell it..

Their cream soda could not be confused with dirty dish water (that would have been the ginger beer :) ). Their Cream Soda was GREEN...

Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh

Sorry only it was 30yrs ago :loopy:

I remember the special one-off peach flavour for the Charles & Diana wedding ,never tasted anything like it since,it was nice. We had 4 bottles a week one flavour for each member of the family.

Do you all remember the "oh so funny" joke about the Alpine Man?