Ice cream men from yesteryear

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Always remember me Mam used to take a dish to the van and get it filled on a Sunday afternoon. Used to be like a frenzy when she brought it back in the house.
 
Fellas
Often licked but never beaten
On the back of the van

Wasn't there one called bogies
I'm sure they had
Often picked but never eaten
on the back of their van
 
OK this is just way too spooky but after making a post on here today, the kids ran in the house at about 4pm to tell me the Ice Cream van had stopped in our street for the first time since we moved back here over 5 years ago. It wasn't the same old Minchella van as I saw the top of it but according to my 10 year old it was a woman driving it so could have possibly been the same woman I mentioned this morning.......weird eh?
 
Geraldis shop up midmoor road (?) would fill your tub for buttons depending who was on. If the woman was on she charged per scoop.

Hopefully she's ok now she's 110 year old and I'm buying elsewhere. The bitch.
 
REO in Horden/Peterlee is still going strong. Two vans do the rounds and he's out every night. When I was at Dene House comp my first head mistress (absolute nutcase) threatened him with action if he didn't shift from the top of the drive at dinnertimes. He simply moved a street down and still parks there to this day :lol:
 
Aqualinos, from springwell.retired now like.married into my mams side of the family. f***ing nuts he is, someone earlier mentioned a little fella with a hump on his back, could well have been him.
 
daedalus said:
Anyone remember Loui's?
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Is that the ice cream place that used to be on Silksworth Road before it was all developed? I'm sure we used to knock on so we could go in and get ice cream.

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jarramackem said:
A Minchellas van used to come round Fellgate from as far back as I can remember. They used to be husband and wife that did the round but pretty sure the wife still comes round in the same van as 40 years ago. Used to see the van parked outside a house near Heworth metro as well but haven't checked its still there for a while.
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I remember the husband and wife team :lol:
 
I grew up in a Wiltshire village in the 50s. We had a Walls van came round every Sunday. You could have lolly, a slice between 2 wafers, or a tub with a spoon. Otherwise it was family sized blocks, which we often had. Vanilla, raspberry ripple, or Neapolitan. There was no soft ice cream, but there were oblong shaped cones for the small slices.
The most exciting thing about our visits to our grandparents in Sunderland, was getting soft ice cream with monkey's blood. Lush.
 
If you grew up in Farringdon in the 90s you will remember the Louie's vs Michaels ices, ice cream wars.

Racing each other on the routes ignoring their own safety advice on the back of the vans of "mind that child"
 
Did anyone elses school allow an ice cream van in at lunch times?

Our school did until jamie oliver turned everything to shit! No ice cream van , no vending machines, just healthy shit because afew fatties couldn't control themselves:oops:
 
joemcdokes said:
I did, used to be a right free for all trying to buy some Jaw Breakers. :lol:
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I remember that van in the top school yard. Sold massive 'Where's The Beef' chewies and those ice lollies with 2 sticks.

For Seaham there was also Frank Pacito and his hand cart, used a whistle to announce he was about. Kids used to help him push it up the streets who received a small ice cream in return.
 
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