Do You Remember Jacks Sarsperilla Bar Langsett Rd

I remember it vaguely, I know I got some sarsaparilla there years ago.

However, the Bundaberg stuff you mention isn't just sarsaparilla, although it contains it. It is sold as root beer, which is really the American name for it; as a little lad (in Oz) my father used to buy drinks of root beer for me but it was then called Horehound. I have found it can now be bought in Waitrose and it revives childhood memories...

I remember Jack's on Langsett Road.

 

On a Sunday we used to walk the 'Monkey Run' from the drink shop opposite the Hillsborough Cinema down past the park and the Hillsborough shops and up the hill to Jack's.

 

We'd have a drink of Vimto or sasparella at both ends of the run.

 

If it was cold we'd buy hot Oxo or Cocoa.

 

This was before the coffee bars started to open.

 

I bought a bottle of Sarsparella the other day made by Bundaberg the Australian firm (I'm in New Zealand)

 

It tasted like Doctor Peppers the American drink.

 

I don't remember it tasting like that in the old days but then there's been a couple of wars since then.

 

When I look back it was a sad sport walking about chatting the girls up and drinking Sarsparella but times were different then.

 

Happy Days!

Never went to Jack's, living at the other side of town, but I do remember regularly calling in at a similar shop on Abbeydale Road, close to the cinema, after the Saturday matinee.

I remember a similar shop going down Spital Hill towards the Wicker and I always had hot blackcurrant which my friends thought was weird!

happy days at Jacks he used to sell cinnemon sticks which we used to smoke late 40s till he closed

It was excellent Sarsaparilla (late 50s and 60s) and he would serve it in the traditional- handled pint pots. We could also buy liquorice root there.

Did that become the Coronation cafe where all the bikers used to hang out

I remember coronation cafe

also remember the boomerang where the skinheads ued to go

This photo might bring back a few memories.

This photo might being back a few memories.

It certainly does

Just came across this thread. When Jack retired the shop became Harvey's Sarsaparilla Bar complete with Juke Box. The guy was called Harvey Widdowson and he had beautiful teenage twin daughters, Elaine and Marie.

Happy days. I can only remember two names from that time, Leyton Errat and Keith Littlewood. Both hard as nails when they were teenagers.

Just came across this thread. When Jack retired the shop became Harvey's Sarsaparilla Bar complete with Juke Box. The guy was called Harvey Widdowson and he had beautiful teenage twin daughters, Elaine and Marie.

Happy days. I can only remember two names from that time, Leyton Errat and Keith Littlewood. Both hard as nails when they were teenagers.

Hi born lucky; you are the first person i have come accross who remembers Harvey , He was a great guy started a football team Harvey's wanderers they were very good .Unfortunatley i cant remember players names there was a Ken lived at the bootom of Bamforth st. went on to play for S/united.As for Leyton i knew him quite well, and keith i also knew but kept well clear as he had quite a reputation as a tearaway . miss the saspaparilla though , great days mid 50s early 60s.

Just came across this thread. When Jack retired the shop became Harvey's Sarsaparilla Bar complete with Juke Box. The guy was called Harvey Widdowson and he had beautiful teenage twin daughters, Elaine and Marie.

Happy days. I can only remember two names from that time, Leyton Errat and Keith Littlewood. Both hard as nails when they were teenagers.

I remember both characters well, Littlewood was the hardest lad i knew in the late 50s early 60s. Leyton Errat was on the Dial House Committee in later years.

I remember both characters well, Littlewood was the hardest lad i knew in the late 50s early 60s...

When Jack Lee retired it must have been about the only drink shop or "temperance bar" left in Sheffield. It's good to know that it continued as Harvey's for a while - Daubney's at Malin Bridge had closed a few years earlier. In post #2 PopT mentioned the one opposite the Kinema - this was run by Elsie Styran who closed the shop when she retired in the mid-1960s. Elsie moved to Trickett Road and lived to the ripe old age of 97 - it must have been the sarsparilla....

Just came across this thread. When Jack retired the shop became Harvey's Sarsaparilla Bar complete with Juke Box. The guy was called Harvey Widdowson and he had beautiful teenage twin daughters, Elaine and Marie.

Happy days. I can only remember two names from that time, Leyton Errat and Keith Littlewood. Both hard as nails when they were teenagers.

I remember the Sasparilla bar at the top of Bamforth Street,wasn,t the doors at an odd angle eg on the corner of the street?.I knew both the gentlemen mentioned,I got on well with Leyton he plastered the ceiling of our first house on Marion Road in the 60s!.Keith you never knew if you were ok with him,you had to be on your guard,he was always skint tapping all the time!.He used to hang around Hillsborough Corner,many nights he would escort me on my way home from the bus stop to the chippy tapping all the time until I convinced him he was flogging a dead horse!.Happy Days!!.:hihi: