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The Ice Cream Man

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LOZELLIAN said:
Hi mw0njm,

Talking of different tastes in ice cream I remember going to both Mahon & Paphos harbours in recent years with the wife & family and sampling their ice cream; I have to admit it was delicious with real fruit in it mmm.

Lozellian
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I did not need to turn the sound up on the add because I still sing it all these years later along with a Teetly Tea add and the teddy bear picnic song.
 
Henley was always good for a drive out and walk the high street then buy a ice cream.
One of the best things growing was a "Knickerbocker Glory" on holiday in Cornwall.
then of course a Tonibell oyster shell, we did not see the Tonibell van that often and I remember them being blue
 
Robert Ensor (bob) said:
Henley was always good for a drive out and walk the high street then buy a ice cream.
One of the best things growing was a "Knickerbocker Glory" on holiday in Cornwall.
then of course a Tonibell oyster shell, we did not see the Tonibell van that often and I remember them being blue
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lewis`s in bham city.sold a great Knickerbocker Glory even had the chewing gum ball in the bottom
 
mw0njm. said:
lewis`s in bham city.sold a great Knickerbocker Glory even had the chewing gum ball in the bottom
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I can see now my mother keep't a big secret from me, not only did Santa Claus live on the top floor of Lewis's department store they also sold great ice cream.
So the best thing for me was the old wooden moving stair case Ha Ha
 
Robert Ensor (bob) said:
I can see now my mother keep't a big secret from me, not only did Santa Claus live on the top floor of Lewis's department store they also sold great ice cream.
So the best thing for me was the old wooden moving stair case Ha Ha
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yer i loved wooden moving stair cases :laughing::laughing:.you dont see them now
 
Hello,
Just joined this forum in the hope of tracing some Verrecchia family members. They lived in Bordesley Street, Birmingham in 1870/80's. They came from Cardito, Vallerotonda, Italy in about 1872. There were two brothers Pasquale and Filippo Verrecchia. Love to hear from any Verrecchia's out there.
 
Alberta said:
I remember when the Walls ice cream man came around the streets on a bike with a fridge on the front.

He used to unwrap a bar of icecream kept in greaseproof paper and put it between two wafer biscuits,beautiful.
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I remember this too! They used to come up Alexander Ave in Handsworth. There was also a pop man, who bought these 'huge' prob not that big, kind of glass bottle jars of pop, we had them once in a while.
 
Every sat night the mister whippy. came around, and so did alpine pop truck. we bought a crate of mixed pops.:yum
 
Toria said:
Hello,
Just joined this forum in the hope of tracing some Verrecchia family members. They lived in Bordesley Street, Birmingham in 1870/80's. They came from Cardito, Vallerotonda, Italy in about 1872. There were two brothers Pasquale and Filippo Verrecchia. Love to hear from any Verrecchia's out there.
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www.business-live.co.uk

Heartbreak of father and son deaths

The founder of one of Birmingham's first ice cream companies died just five hours after his son lost his life to stomach cancer.
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lavender said:
I remember this too! They used to come up Alexander Ave in Handsworth. There was also a pop man, who bought these 'huge' prob not that big, kind of glass bottle jars of pop, we had them once in a while.
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And they came down Radnor Rd in Handsworth, the pop man was most likely the Corona man as Radiorails points out!
 
Could Severo Verrecchia be connected to my relatives in Bordesley Street in late 1870's and 80's? Filippo and Pasquale, as I know they made ice-cream too.
 
As a child, who was your local ice cream man? During the ‘70s in Brandwood, Kings Heath I remember a chap called Dougie who sold the usual vanilla flavoured stuff that was squirted from a pump dispenser would do the rounds. I wasn’t a regular customer. Then another chap appeared on the scene, he sold ice cream scooped from the tub in lots of lovely flavours (ohh, rum and raisin…) and played a weird jingle as he went that sounded like a wobble board and didgeridoo. Can’t remember his name, though.
I was prompted to ask this question because while I was in my garden earlier with my 29 year old daughter I heard the familiar sound of an ice cream van in the distance. I realised that buying an ice cream from a van was one of the few experiences we both had as children that would have been virtually identical, as it still would be for a child even today. Perhaps some things never change after all?
 
Astoness said:
having an ice cream from the ice cream man was always a treat for us kids on a sunday afternoon after dinner...there was 6 of us to cater for and money was tight so we were always very grateful

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Yes Lyn, it was certainly a treat from a van. I’m one of six children too though the eldest left home when I was born, and our Mom would often buy an oblong block of ice cream wrapped in thin cardboard (haven’t seen that for a while), divide it into slices and give it us between wafers, or in a bowl with tinned blackcurrant poured over it on a Sunday after dinner. There was also a packet of chocolate digestives divided between us all on Sunday mornings, and a bottle of Orange squash too. That would be served in a glass pitcher and was placed on the table at dinner, bearing the legend “SENIOR SERVICE Satisfy.”
 
Astoness said:
having an ice cream from the ice cream man was always a treat for us kids on a sunday afternoon after dinner...there was 6 of us to cater for and money was tight so we were always very grateful

lyn
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I hit the pause button when I read this, my parents never allowed us to buy from the ice cream man. My mother always said the ice cream was not clean? My own children discovered the ice cream man when they were about 3. I think with my mother it was a way to not have to spend the money (at least I hope so).
 
Godber said:
As a child, who was your local ice cream man? During the ‘70s in Brandwood, Kings Heath I remember a chap called Dougie who sold the usual vanilla flavoured stuff that was squirted from a pump dispenser would do the rounds. I wasn’t a regular customer. Then another chap appeared on the scene, he sold ice cream scooped from the tub in lots of lovely flavours (ohh, rum and raisin…) and played a weird jingle as he went that sounded like a wobble board and didgeridoo. Can’t remember his name, though.
I was prompted to ask this question because while I was in my garden earlier with my 29 year old daughter I heard the familiar sound of an ice cream van in the distance. I realised that buying an ice cream from a van was one of the few experiences we both had as children that would have been virtually identical, as it still would be for a child even today. Perhaps some things never change after a?
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Lombards and Italian ice cream man and Tonibell who did ice cream in a plastic ball. Greensleeves was the tune still get them around by me. I was walking the dog past the local school this week and the ice cream van pulled up and i caught a glimpse of the prices. Iasked if i could pay in instalments. Screwball Zoom Fab 99 Chocolate sauce. Still the same. Memories the sad part was if you missed him as he drove off.
 
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