Mobile Shops

[Shearwater Missile]

Rather superceded by home delivery.

Maybe, but then when you went out to the van so would your neighbours. A more sociable aspect of it. I was too young, but did go out to the van for sweets.

 

[postman]

With us it was on 'tick' Tuesday or Wednesdays purchases paid for on Friday.Paid a little more than the proper shops,but money did not last the full week.

 

[Mike_P]

Once the Corona wagon stopped coming around the milk operative offered such. Thinking back that must in itself indicated the milk trade was dropping in the face of the supermarkets. The first American styled superstore opened in Nottingham in November 1964.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Plus we had a bread van used to come down our road. Might have geen Warburton van.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

When we moved to the Lake District 30 years ago the milk man delivered newspapers on a non-profit basis to us country bumpkins.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Plus we had a bread van used to come down our road. Might have geen Warburton van.

Ours was Grooms's - no idea if that was local, regional or national.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ours was Grooms's - no idea if that was local, regional or national.

Or maybe it was Mothers Pride

 

[Webbo2]

Did you lot get brought up in areas where it was too dangerous to have shops. I was brought in Leeds in the 1950’s and I don’t think I ever saw a mobile shop or the like till I saw a mobile library on Midsomer Murders.😉

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Did you lot get brought up in areas where it was too dangerous to have shops. I was brought in Leeds in the 1950’s and I don’t think I ever saw a mobile shop or the like till I saw a mobile library on Midsomer Murders.😉

There was never any danger and of course we had shops, some being just a front room of a house. Often, it was those shops that were doing the rounds in the vans.

 

[Dave7]

A man on a bicycle with a grindstone attatched to sharpen anything that needed to be sharpened: shears scissors, knives etc

We had one of those, us kids were fascinated by it.

 

[Dave7]

And the rag & bone man, and the ginger (lemonade) lorry. Those were the days!

We had the rag n bone ban. Dont remember the ginger lemonade though.

 

[Dave7]

Plus we had a bread van used to come down our road. Might have geen Warburton van.

When i was 21 i was a delivery man for. co-op bread.

 

[Dave7]

My son has bright red hair.
No one else in the family has red hair.
A really strange coincidence is that the milk man had bright red hair.
That coincidence has always amazed me.

 

[FrankCrank]

Grew up on a council estate, and all these delivery vans were pretty much par for the course - same throughout the land I expect.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

We had the rag n bone ban. Dont remember the ginger lemonade though.

Horse and cart when I were a kid.