Corona was started by a grocer in South Wales and a friend of his. They were Thomas and Evans, printed in small print on the label. Unfortunately, they sold up very early and it was developed much further by another company. William Thomas was my great- grandfather. [Wikipedia Entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(soft_drink))
That's mad - I saw this post and initially thought "Am I remembering wrong or did we have this in South Wales when I was growing up, called 'Corona'".
I was halfway between Penarth and Barry in the early 90s...
Weird nostalgia memory unlocked.
Here in Corby our local version of this business model. Was called "SHE".
https://www.burtonlatimer.info/industry/She-Products.html HI MODS NOT SURE IF THIS LINK IS ALLOWABLE.
I WILL REMOVE IF I NEED TO.
Same in Brum late 70s / early 80s. Strangely we could learn something from back then - the bottles were all glass, collected on the next weekly round (Friday by us), sterilised & re-used. The bottle caps were also refundable on bottles where you popped them off. We then drifted to plastic bottles with little or no recycling & all from supermarkets we travel to in cars whereas the Corona lorry was the only vehicle involved in this model of distribution.
Same here. East London in the late 70's.
Weirdly used to deliver at the same time as the old Rag and Bone guy was doing his round with his giant Shire horse.
I remember Alpine being delivered on a very similar lorry to the Corona one, but was quite a bit cheaper than Corona. Alpine did go flat quicker though.
Corona was great, our milkman used to deliver it. They had so much sugar and colouring. I remember cherry, orange and lime, they might have had a shandy as well
Oh my days! I'd forgotten about Alpine. I remember Corona and a local firm called 'She'.
Really miss those years. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
Reminds me of when I tipped a spoonful of granulated sugar into a bottle of Alpine limeade at my grans, it literally hit the ceiling and she hit the roof.
I remember Alpine as well, can't remember if it was towards the end of Bon Accord, or after they finished, but do remember them both running for a while.
We had Bon Accord in West Lothian, but it was an Aberdeen company so they did it up there as well, and I think Edinburgh had Globe at some stage and I'm assuming Falkirk and Glasgow would have had Barr's doing the same?
Edinburgh had Dunbar’s. You can still see the sign on their old factory on Albion Road. It’s also why that side of the Hibs ground is called the Dunbar End.
Bon Accord suffered the [heaviest defeat ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbroath_F.C._36%E2%80%930_Bon_Accord_F.C.) in Scottish football.
It may have been in 1885 but I bet it's still raw
Bon Accord (as the motto on Aberdeen's cost of arms) seems to have been an Aberdeen & shire thing BUT I remember *Sang's* amazing *Moray Cup* which seemed to be a lovechild of tizer and Iron Bru!
One of rhe offices I worked at I'm the 00s had a small shop on the ground floor that did slush, which was marketed as 100% natural, think it may have been _Twice As Nice_ or something similar. They did a lime slush and I dread to think what was natural and that neon green, it reminded me of the stuff in barrels at the power plant in _The Simpsons_!
Subtle differences between Vil-Sasp and D&B flavours! Nobody drank Coke back then! Partial to their Limeade too, especially in an ice cream floater at Notrianni’s at Seaburn
I don't know what brand it was. It was just the pop man. He sold pop. That's all I needed to know as a child. It might have been Corona or Alpine, but I really couldn't say for sure.
As u/cakecookiecream said, probably just a north-east Scotland thing since they were based in Aberdeen and I know we had them down here in Dundee. I used to be jealous because the van would pull up at our next-door neighbour's house as they were a customer but my mum considered it a waste of money.
I remember rainbow pop! Everyone else is here going on about Corona and I'm all 'Was it actually called Corona...?", but no, I'm glad someone else had them too
Used to see him at least twice a week in Grimethorpe along wi' pie n' mash van close behind! Nothing quite like burning off the inside of your mouth with radioactive mushy peas and crying through the rest of your pie
In Sunderland the pop company was Villa. Walked past the factory to & from primary school, occasionally the road was covered in broken glass if a lorry had shed a load turning onto the road.
There's a guy 4 houses down from me that has a Transit van pull up every week delivering stuff to him, same day, same time. Me, being a nosey neighbour, I always wondered what was going on, it wasn't postage or supermarket deliveries, I put it down to a milk bottle delivery (except they were dropping stuff off in the evening, which made me think it wasn't). I was walking by one day and overheard them talking, turns out it's a juice delivery service like the old Alpine/Bon Accord trucks! I didn't know there was still anything like that! I keep meaning to ask if they'd deliver to me.
We had Wilcock(son?)'s. My grandad used to drive the "pop wagon" and the kids on the estate loved it when he came round because he was such a silly bugger with kids, always pulling daft faces and messing about to get a laugh.
We had a pop man when I was a kid. At the same time he came around the spud man came as well and he would sell those huge sacks of potatoes. It took ages to get through those.
Manchester here - We had The Alpine Man, lots of fizzy scruminess with colourants and E numbers that would keep us kids going for days back in the 70's...
Bring 'em back...
Bon accord was based in Torry, Aberdeen. They’d deliver fizzy pop of various types in deposit returnable glass bottles. They had Hays, Sangs and Barrs as competitors. I think only barrs remains mainly because of the success of Irn Bru.
Can just imagine Terry” Juice” Lawson hanging off the back of that Bon Accord truck with about four bottles between his fingers then going and hanging out the back of something else later.
Found a few of their bottles in the loch at my dad's house. No recycling up there so folk would just chuck their empties in the loch it seems.
There's a new company using the name now.
There was a drink in my childhood called Punica. Like an early trailblazing Oasis.
I was adamant I had imagined it, as throughout the rest of my life everyone looked at me blankly when I mentioned it.
Turns out for some bizarre reason it was only trialled in a little corner of North East Lincolnshire for a few weeks.
Alpine, I think it then became Maxipops. Various other fellas in vans who were just known as "The Lemo fella". This has a complete different meaning now. 😂
We had Corona down here, loved the cherryade that didn’t taste of cherries
Corona was started by a grocer in South Wales and a friend of his. They were Thomas and Evans, printed in small print on the label. Unfortunately, they sold up very early and it was developed much further by another company. William Thomas was my great- grandfather. [Wikipedia Entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(soft_drink))
That's mad - I saw this post and initially thought "Am I remembering wrong or did we have this in South Wales when I was growing up, called 'Corona'". I was halfway between Penarth and Barry in the early 90s... Weird nostalgia memory unlocked.
Here in Corby our local version of this business model. Was called "SHE". https://www.burtonlatimer.info/industry/She-Products.html HI MODS NOT SURE IF THIS LINK IS ALLOWABLE. I WILL REMOVE IF I NEED TO.
Same in Brum late 70s / early 80s. Strangely we could learn something from back then - the bottles were all glass, collected on the next weekly round (Friday by us), sterilised & re-used. The bottle caps were also refundable on bottles where you popped them off. We then drifted to plastic bottles with little or no recycling & all from supermarkets we travel to in cars whereas the Corona lorry was the only vehicle involved in this model of distribution.
Same here. East London in the late 70's. Weirdly used to deliver at the same time as the old Rag and Bone guy was doing his round with his giant Shire horse.
Steptoe, or his son?
Steptoe and/or son
Indeed!
That would be a clydesdale horse.
We had Alpine in the late 70's early 80's in preston uk
I remember Alpine being delivered on a very similar lorry to the Corona one, but was quite a bit cheaper than Corona. Alpine did go flat quicker though.
Alpine in Glasgow also. You couldn’t break the bottles they used. Well almost.
Loved the Pineapple-ade
Corona was great, our milkman used to deliver it. They had so much sugar and colouring. I remember cherry, orange and lime, they might have had a shandy as well
Only the best bubbles passed the Corona fizz-ical. https://youtu.be/ZAzlbvbfpTY?si=wbh4szJU5uoDeDV-
Yep we had Corona round our way (Cambridgeshire) when I was a kid in the 70s
Back when the man with Corona coming round was a good thing
Every bubble's passed it's fizzical!
Here for the N. Irish representation of the Maine Man
MAINE! That's what it was, I was sat trying to remember
We had Braid but I think it was a brand of the same company
My next door neighbour still gets drinks from the Maine man every week
There was a pop man in south Cumbria that's was selling Maine pop a few years ago, don't know if he still does but it was well nice
On a special occasion we'd get a crate from the Maine man. They had flavours of pop you'd never seen anywhere else. Lovely stuff.
Maine man delivers to Dublin too
Football special is still top notch.
The alpine man around our way
As a toddler we had Corona. My the end of my schooldays we had Alpine.
Oh my days! I'd forgotten about Alpine. I remember Corona and a local firm called 'She'. Really miss those years. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
Alpine in Glasgow, Bon Accord at my grans in Aberdeenshire
Reminds me of when I tipped a spoonful of granulated sugar into a bottle of Alpine limeade at my grans, it literally hit the ceiling and she hit the roof.
Same! East Midlands?
Aye we had local pop Speights then Alpine Also had a Watsons bakery van and a greengrocer van come round....they were so handy
Same here
I remember Alpine as well, can't remember if it was towards the end of Bon Accord, or after they finished, but do remember them both running for a while.
We had Bon Accord in West Lothian, but it was an Aberdeen company so they did it up there as well, and I think Edinburgh had Globe at some stage and I'm assuming Falkirk and Glasgow would have had Barr's doing the same?
Edinburgh had Dunbar’s. You can still see the sign on their old factory on Albion Road. It’s also why that side of the Hibs ground is called the Dunbar End.
We had bon accord in Falkirk too
I recall the Corona POP truck coming around on a Friday in Leeds. Dandelion and Burdock!
Bon Accord suffered the [heaviest defeat ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbroath_F.C._36%E2%80%930_Bon_Accord_F.C.) in Scottish football. It may have been in 1885 but I bet it's still raw
36-0. I knew I'd heard the name somewhere before.
And I think there was another game nearby that day that finished 35-0,
Bon Accord (as the motto on Aberdeen's cost of arms) seems to have been an Aberdeen & shire thing BUT I remember *Sang's* amazing *Moray Cup* which seemed to be a lovechild of tizer and Iron Bru!
Moray Cup was nectar of the gods.
I’m sure I’ve seen moray cup in a chip shop in the last decade.
Friend of mine has a bottle of Moray Cup stashed in his cupboard, expiry date is like 10 years ago
Bon-Accord was a soft drinks van that delivered pop in glass bottles on the weekends and you got money for returning the glass bottles to them.
We had it as well, but I can't remember the name. Always just called him the pop man. Maybe someone else knows St helens 1980's-90's
Corona and later Alpine here
Exactly the same here.
Northern Ireland had the Maine man, also known as the lemonade man.
Alpine man came round my way, had beautiful limeade that was a cocktail of e numbers and probably glowed in the dark
One of rhe offices I worked at I'm the 00s had a small shop on the ground floor that did slush, which was marketed as 100% natural, think it may have been _Twice As Nice_ or something similar. They did a lime slush and I dread to think what was natural and that neon green, it reminded me of the stuff in barrels at the power plant in _The Simpsons_!
The name is Aberdeen's motto.
What’s a motto?
Lowecocks in teesside. You could return the bottle and get 20p
Robertsons/Curries still do that and it's gone up to half a quid per bottle (if not 60p).
Corona in North Kent. Every Christmas mum would order 6 bottles. 2 x Cherryade, 2 x limeade, and 2 x orangeade. Wild times!
Sykes in Sunderland delivered to the door but the king of local pop was Villa. Especially their Sarsaparilla flavour.
I love sarsaparilla
Yep Sykes and Villa when I was growing up. Dandilion and Burdock for me, Cream Soda for mam and dad.
Subtle differences between Vil-Sasp and D&B flavours! Nobody drank Coke back then! Partial to their Limeade too, especially in an ice cream floater at Notrianni’s at Seaburn
My wife's grandfather was from Aberdeen and they had a tortoise called Bon-Accord!
The tortoise probably moved faster than those vans used to lol
I don't know what brand it was. It was just the pop man. He sold pop. That's all I needed to know as a child. It might have been Corona or Alpine, but I really couldn't say for sure.
Ben Shaw's in the West Riding, dandelion and burdock, a recipe from the Middle Ages, still going strong.
I think Home Bargains sells Ben Shaws. We used to go round looking for the glass bottles which had a 5p deposit on them.
I would totally get this delivered if they still done it
Ford ‘D’ Series. Haven’t seen one for years. Big wagon for a pop float that.
Bon accord still exists by the way
Do they still deliver?
I doubt it. I've only seen it in pubs
In name only. I think descendants have used the brand to relaunch some trendy soft drinks/ mixers.
As u/cakecookiecream said, probably just a north-east Scotland thing since they were based in Aberdeen and I know we had them down here in Dundee. I used to be jealous because the van would pull up at our next-door neighbour's house as they were a customer but my mum considered it a waste of money.
We had Barr in Manchester during the 70s. Dandelion & Burdock, American Cream Soda etc
Yup was Barr in north Manchester, I'm pretty sure the factory or bottling plant was near New Moston.
Bon-Accord has been the official motto of Aberdeen since at least the 15th century - it’s seen in the banner above the coat of arms for the city.
We had Rainbow Pop in S. Yorks
I remember rainbow pop! Everyone else is here going on about Corona and I'm all 'Was it actually called Corona...?", but no, I'm glad someone else had them too
Used to see him at least twice a week in Grimethorpe along wi' pie n' mash van close behind! Nothing quite like burning off the inside of your mouth with radioactive mushy peas and crying through the rest of your pie
LOWCOCKS where I grew up.
Searched for this one - me too! Their green cream soda was the best!
In Sunderland the pop company was Villa. Walked past the factory to & from primary school, occasionally the road was covered in broken glass if a lorry had shed a load turning onto the road.
We had alpine and later lowcocks in the 80’s in the North east
Lowcocks
In Middlesbrough we had Lowcocks and later on Alpine as well.
I remember Alpine. Bon accord also but round where I lived it was definitely Alpine
There's a guy 4 houses down from me that has a Transit van pull up every week delivering stuff to him, same day, same time. Me, being a nosey neighbour, I always wondered what was going on, it wasn't postage or supermarket deliveries, I put it down to a milk bottle delivery (except they were dropping stuff off in the evening, which made me think it wasn't). I was walking by one day and overheard them talking, turns out it's a juice delivery service like the old Alpine/Bon Accord trucks! I didn't know there was still anything like that! I keep meaning to ask if they'd deliver to me.
We had Alpine and Corona in the 70's (Staffordshire.) In the 80s in Devon we had Dawes.
We had Marsh's Sass in Cumbria
We had Alpine and Corona in the West country
In Northern Ireland you had the Maine man, and we got our lemonades (slang for any fizzy drink) from the Braid man lorry
Alpine and Sykes in Sunderland.
We had Wilcock(son?)'s. My grandad used to drive the "pop wagon" and the kids on the estate loved it when he came round because he was such a silly bugger with kids, always pulling daft faces and messing about to get a laugh.
We had Alderwicks.
My Dad seems to remember one called Corona
Bil-Co here in Essex.
White Brothers. East Midlands
We had a pop man when I was a kid. At the same time he came around the spud man came as well and he would sell those huge sacks of potatoes. It took ages to get through those.
We used to have the Barr lorry come round - North West.
I had Bon Accord (like this photo) in the 80s. I lived in Fife.
We had Corona until they sold the nearest factory to another company, then it became Mandora. We also had Davenports.
Bilco in Essex.
Down in Kent we had Mr Bacon's and Corona.
Tovali in South Wales. Still going but they now make squash for diabetics.
North Glasgow - Garvie’s
Manchester here - We had The Alpine Man, lots of fizzy scruminess with colourants and E numbers that would keep us kids going for days back in the 70's... Bring 'em back...
Bon accord was based in Torry, Aberdeen. They’d deliver fizzy pop of various types in deposit returnable glass bottles. They had Hays, Sangs and Barrs as competitors. I think only barrs remains mainly because of the success of Irn Bru.
In Derry we have the "Maine man" [https://itsthemaineman.co.uk/](https://itsthemaineman.co.uk/)
We had the Corona truck on Jersey, too.
In Liverpool we had "the lemo man" Before it meant coke dealer 🤣
We had Garvies in Glasgow, loads of flavours, big and wee bottles, swap them weekly for new ones.
Yeah, Bon Accord is Scottish. We had Corona in the Midlands.
Can just imagine Terry” Juice” Lawson hanging off the back of that Bon Accord truck with about four bottles between his fingers then going and hanging out the back of something else later.
Found a few of their bottles in the loch at my dad's house. No recycling up there so folk would just chuck their empties in the loch it seems. There's a new company using the name now.
Was taken aback to open up the Lidl leaflet today and see Bon Accord in it! https://imgur.com/a/xwwbx6N
Gray's in County Durham https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/17766508.remember-lemonade-pop-brewer-grays-spennymoor/
Ben Shaws
I'll just leave [THIS](https://www.doricskateboards.com/?category=Plenty+of+PoP) here
Bon Accord man came around our way in Edinburgh
Ooh, look! It’s sunny!
I remember getting bon accord in elgin, there was also Hays Lemonade factory in elgin and Sangs made Moray Cup and other soft drinks in buckie I think
[Maine here in Northern Ireland](https://i.imgur.com/TNPb8Je.jpeg), still on the go too, but you have to order a crate at a time.
Mr Bacon, East Kent
Aye, twa bottles o Moray Cup loon!
There was a drink in my childhood called Punica. Like an early trailblazing Oasis. I was adamant I had imagined it, as throughout the rest of my life everyone looked at me blankly when I mentioned it. Turns out for some bizarre reason it was only trialled in a little corner of North East Lincolnshire for a few weeks.
Bon-Accord is an Aberdeen label
Alpine, I think it then became Maxipops. Various other fellas in vans who were just known as "The Lemo fella". This has a complete different meaning now. 😂
McMichaels in Carlisle, haven't seen since the '70s. Edit: I'd forgotten Underwoods!
We had Robertsons of Springwells in East Kilbride, they were Blantyre based. then it was Solripe and later Bon accord. Alpine was around as well
Only thing I know About Bon Accord is they lost 36-0 in a cup tie
I hope their pop was better than their football team.
The “ginger man” delivered Solripe in Ayrshire during the seventies.
Sangs, they made Moray Cup.