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Wall's ice cream

gingerjon

gingerjon

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
the first shop I can remember that sold Wall's ice cream was the shop on the corner of Talford street and Burlington street (what was the name of the shop) Mrs Grigg in Parliament street used to sell Midland counties you used to get a great big wedge for a tanner nearly half the block
where did you buy yours
 
Walls Ice Cream

John, I can't remember where I had my first Walls ice cream, but the shop you refer to was TAYLORS, later Smiths, then the BLUE SHOP.
Mr & Mrs Taylor were a lovely old couple, before they sold Walls Mr. Taylor
used to sell homemade icecream. His sister Phoebe had a shop in Pugh
Road, and she made it, many times my friend Mavis Clarke and I were
"volunteered" by our mothers to fetch it to help Mr. Taylor as he was too old to do it himself, we had to borrow a basket carriage from Jennings it
was heavy enough to push it al the way up Parliament Street, Park Lane,
Upper Thomas Street, down Victoria Road, to Pugh Road, and even harder
work to push it back complete with the metal container full of ice cream, all out of the goodness of our hearts, and an ice cream when we
got back.
 
ice cream

i used to work at midland county dairy 1966 does anyone else out there work there. please let me know thanks :lol:
 
have you any information about Midland County Dairies, stories memories, photographs, we would be interested in putting it on the main site any think welcome mail me John
 
Do you remember the comic strip that features spy adventures and
the characters would spell out the "W" with their fingers to signify Wall's Ice Cream? Here is a web site for the Eagle with a mention of the Wall's quasi-advertising strip, with Tommy Walls who was forever making the
W sign. I remember when the large bricksof Wall's ice crem first came out and it was a real treat to have one at home although with five of us we didn't get that much. I think they were a shilling a brick. Here is the web site https://www.comicsuk.co.uk/ComicInformationPages/Eagle1Pages/Eagle1HomePage2.asp
My brother, Peter used to get the Eagle comic when it first came out and followed the adventures of Dan Dare and the Mekon. I loved reading it as well.
This web site will bring back a lot of memories I'm sure.
I am trying to remember if they sold Wall's ice cream at the little
shop near Aston Hall, in the outbuildings to the right of the Hall.
 
Walls Ice cream?
The first thing I can recall was having "snowfrutes" & "Snowcreams" they were in a triangular packet navyblue & white chequered, and sold for a penny!! the icecream man used to sell from a tri-byke with the box compartment in front,when he wasn't looking we used to "borrow" the dry iceout of it.
At the time,there was also Midlands County's & also a very nice "Eldorado" that was a lime colour,and tasted very nice, I think they were 2d. Happy Days :D
 
Re: ice cream

Hello. Don`t know if you`ll be able to help. I`m looking for an ice cream van man called david. Used to sell round great barr in the 1970`s. Believe he was married with children. Possibly in his 60`s-70`s now. Thanks
 
Would that be David Brittain?. Mind you I don't think he would be that old. He is still doing the round. Jean.
 
i don`t know his last name sorry. how old do you think he is? thanks for the reply. do you know if he was married or has children? i`m sorry i can`t give you more information, it`s really important i get in touch with him if it is the right David.
 
This David would only be about 48. I phoned one of my lads as they knew him from school but he left some time before they did and they have lost touch. I do know he still does Dunedin road as his brother lived there until last year and he would pop in for tea. His brother is on face book under Tony Brittain. TTFN. Jean.
 
Thanks for your help. I don`t think it`s the right man at that age. if you hear anything else, no matter how small, i`d be very grateful for you to get in touch. take care .
 
I don`t know if you`ll be able to help me. I`m looking for an ice cream van man called david, and used to work with his brother selling in the great barr area in the 1970`s. Believe he was married with two boys??????????? Possibly in his 60`s-70`s now. Thanks
 
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Wasn't Walls Ice Cream dreadful? It was pretty well all there was otherwise they would have gone out of business. No flavour at all in their so called vanilla, an entire generation grew up thinking vanilla meant without taste. Thank the Lord for Trows Ice Cream in Sutton, now that was flavoursome.
The dreadful three flavour family block,with sheets of cardboard they called waifers. Ugh!
 
If I remember correctly, wasn`t Walls Ice Cream made in South Yardley, just off the Coventry Rd ? Used to love their family brick, 2 shillings or half a crown (cant remember ). Father-in-law and I used to finish one between us after Sunday Lunch ! Yum Yum.
 
Being a bit of a greedy youth I used to buy myself two wafers and put them together, wonderful it was life licking a house-brick for ten minutes shear bliss. Dek
 
my first Wall Ice cream came on holiday in Skegness from a booth on the peir, Any one remember "TOMMY WALLS" from the Eagle Comic days.He would have a new adventure each week ALL TO PROMOTE WALLS ICE CREAM.
 
Was it Walls ice cream who had the 'Stop Me and Buy One' tricycles, they used to sell something shaped like a Toberlone (trangular shaped) something like a modern ice lolly only much tastier, I loved them. He would ring his bell to attract your attention Eric
 
lencops. Just noticed that the photo of the Walls ice cream van 388 AMY is actually a Trojan, so beloved by Brooke Bond Tea in the fifties. This is the first Trojan Ice Cream van I`ve recorded (sorry but I collect pictures of Ice Cream vans ! How sad !)
 
Thanks Topsy. I worked there as a student one blistering hot summer on the night shift. It was good money but put me off ice-cream. I can now only eat the stuff on rare occasions. I suppose that happens to many people who work in the food industry. There's a board on the pavement against the wall. Looks like they had the decorators in. I seem to remember from another thread that the building has now gone. Viv.
 
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