The Alpine Soft Drinks man used to come round in a sort of converted milk float every week (Wednesday or Thursday), and sell these street by street back in the mid seventies. Alpine Soft Drinks were closer to Corona than Cresta, but they came in the most vivid colours and left you hyper all evening. Alpine Soft Drinks came in the usual flavours - Orangeade, Limeade, Lemonade, Cola, Cherryade and of course Dandelion and Burdock. As someone who worked for them for a short time I can remember one of the top sellers was American Cream Soda.
Do You Remember Alpine Soft Drinks?
Do You Remember Alpine Soft Drinks?
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Frankie L
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Hi,i left school in 1971 and started work as a van lad at Alpine in the Huyton depot.The managers name was Bob. ? Then a fella named George Francis took over.You could earn decent money on the big rounds,but outragiouse hours.I passed my driving test in an Alpine wagon ha happy days though.
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bradders
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hi bradders here, i worked for aberdare depot in the 90's had a huge round, very long hours but loved every minute of it areas were aberdare/merthyr/treharris/aberfan/crosskeys/risca/and worked the swansea areas at times
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Alli
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Does anyone know Graham Heard, he worked for Alpine 30 years ago and lived in Lewsey Farm, Luton. Wondered how life was treating him :)
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Harry M
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I worked at Alpine in the late 70s - mainly at Stockport, but with a few stints at Manchester and Liverpool. I was bitten by dogs and was once attacked by an 80 year-old neighbour of a customer. Long hours, but the money wasn't bad.
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Helen123
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My uncle, John Kane, was an Alpine man for a bit...I remember Christmas dinner at my gran and granddads, we all sitting down to et when tammy, my uncles friend, thanked him for giving the turkey to HIS family....The silence that followed was something terrible!
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JulieAnn
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Hi my name is Julie if Steve a alpine pop man is reading this I am trying to contact you it would be nice to meet up and catch up
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Meader
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Was that in Bristol?
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kev
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What happened to the company as alpine just seem to stop
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Billynomates
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Moved towards selling potatoes and other stuff whilst on the rounds and then started doing catalogue stuff too and I think that was the straw that broke the camels back, the pop deliveries were on the decline at the time and the plan was to introduce other products but it didn’t quite work out.
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Hetti
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It was bought by Pedigree (Toys)for the Name actually as it was a limited company. Pedigree were working towards fazing the drinks out, hence the start of the Alpine Franchises that was the beginning of the end. I was Receptionist at Chelmsley frm 73' onwards then I was PA to Mick Collins for a short while then after 22 yrs made redundant along with Malcolm Lees, Sales Director and a few others at head office..
I think the building is still standing at Chelmsley Wood but I'm not sure what kind of business is there now. It's been great to read everyone's comments I'm loving it, glad I stumbled on to the site but it's sad to hear of those who've passed away like Wally Room, Alf Hunt, Joe Boyle and I imagine many more.
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Pjbruxy
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Read so many familiar names, wonder if anybody can remember my dad Pete Brookes.
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nige
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Not THE Pete Brookes from Rotherham? He used to be my area manager when I was at Rotherham depot as canvass manager and promoted me to depot manager at Hull. Is he still around mate? Ask him if the bird table/house has stood the test of time... :) I very much doubt it haha! Had to interupt his dinner one Monday when two of our drivers set fire to the depot in Hull. Gutted the place. But, such was the organisation at Alpine, we were back in business within a day and sold more pop that week than at any other time! Me and Pete got our faces in the local rag.... :) Please say hello to him for me, top bloke.
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Hetti
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Yes I remember Pete Brookes if he's the guy who was an area manager. I used to see him and chat every time he was down in Birmingham Chelmsley Wood for meetings and sometimes I had to make the tea/coffee for them all and take it in to the boardroom, I used to get so embarrassed and blush I was scared I'd drop the trays lol. So yes I remember your dad
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Donstennett
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My name is donovan and use to work as a van boy in the eighties at black horse road deppot.
Funny how all my drivers used this job to liason with dagenhan girls it was good time and very funny.
When delivering sometime to cut time down we use to ride on the back to pass the crates down'we thought we were cowboys then impressing the ladies LOL
Donovan stennett find me on face book
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trikesman
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I was also a van boy at the Walthamstow Blackhorse rd depot was a young teddy boy type back in them days used to deliver Harlow & Romford /Ilford/Dagenham ! think it closed down after a wages snatch if memory servers me right Geoff eason
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mooney3
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I worked at the Penshaw depot in Sunderland during the 80's. Went from van lad to Driver to SV. Manager was Gordon Backhouse (Yorkshire pudding)other SV's were Geordie Johnson & "Doc" Muldown, amongst many others over the years. Free 10 driving lessons and free driving test for 17 year olds with "promise". Remember the national darts comps they had between depots. Loads were put onto trucks in terms of "biggest" sellers to the front of the wagon, to the worst sellers to the back. The "Charles & Di Jubilee" drink was Passion fruit but it smelt like cats p**s. There were many "special" flavours over the years. Towards the end when supermarkets killed the door to door delivery trade, we tried selling soft toys, fish, competition draw tickets, crisps, fruit juice, diesel from the wagons tank and anything else you could get a few quid from !! haha. 7 years of memorable history and some fantastic characters along the way. Anyone could drive the fork truck to store the cases taken off the wagons. My God, safety would have had a field day if it were now!! Christmas Turkey and Very Large hamper for hitting sales targets. It was fun getting on the bus at 9.00pm with me 22lb turkey haha memories.
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