Icecream Vans / Sellers

[chameleon]

As well as Tony, there were the bigger commercial ones, the all new Mr Whippy, Mr Softee and Toni-bell - he had a deafening jingle machine!Going back to early school days, anothee real Ice Cream man was Granellis. I remember a small dark haired chap used to come round, sometime with his son helping, Ice cream scooped out of the frezer, 'sandwhiches' made in a hand held mould filled with icecream - for a penny (1d) extra you could have a chocolate covered wafer on one side, Ice lollies (watery ones) 2d or creamy ones for a treat at 3d.A really friendly chap and I remember he used to live at No. 3 on Stanley Road near St James' !

[Bramley4woods]

arry awk wrote: Bet nobody remembers Old Tomasso who only had a handcart?He was quite old when he used to come struggling up RosebankView (pre-WW2!!). With his two wheeled cart plus a prop stand!He had to rest a couple of mins before shouting "Luvalee Ice-a-crema,Half-a penny cornet,Penny sam'widge, Tuppence a big a-da cuppa. Ras'berry vinegar on top. free!" We always took Dad'sex army pint pot out to be filled, always the same price!His ice cream was from a large steel drum which was placed in an even bigger ice container like a giant wine cooler.His ice cream was the most delicious I've ever tasted, (away fromItaly itself). I seem to recall Granelli's bought him out? They had ahorse and cart to do the hard work! (Health and Safety?Yer what!)[bit snipped]Arry Health and Safety ??My Aunt and Uncle used tell the tale of the blind ice cream man on a trike (or push cart) just around wartime who cut his hand on a sharp edge on his cart and went round the "Jubilees" off of Woodhouse Street all afternoon selling pink ice cream !

[liits]

Bramley4woods wrote: arry awk wrote: Bet nobody remembers Old Tomasso who only had a handcart?He was quite old when he used to come struggling up RosebankView (pre-WW2!!). With his two wheeled cart plus a prop stand!He had to rest a couple of mins before shouting "Luvalee Ice-a-crema,Half-a penny cornet,Penny sam'widge, Tuppence a big a-da cuppa. Ras'berry vinegar on top. free!" We always took Dad'sex army pint pot out to be filled, always the same price!His ice cream was from a large steel drum which was placed in an even bigger ice container like a giant wine cooler.His ice cream was the most delicious I've ever tasted, (away fromItaly itself). I seem to recall Granelli's bought him out? They had ahorse and cart to do the hard work! (Health and Safety?Yer what!)[bit snipped]Arry Health and Safety ??My Aunt and Uncle used tell the tale of the blind ice cream man on a trike (or push cart) just around wartime who cut his hand on a sharp edge on his cart and went round the "Jubilees" off of Woodhouse Street all afternoon selling pink ice cream ! Not that this relates to Ice Cream in any way but it does pertain to pushing carts.Many years ago, my maternal Grand Parents managed to "borrow" a barrel organ or, as grandma called it, a "Tingalarey". The only problem being was that they couldn't use it in Leeds so they pushed it all the way to Rothwell [up John O'Gaunt hill]. It was only upon arriving in Rothwell that they realised that the handle to wind the damn thing had been left in Holbeck!

[iansmithofotley]

Health and Safety ??My Aunt and Uncle used tell the tale of the blind ice cream man on a trike (or push cart) just around wartime who cut his hand on a sharp edge on his cart and went round the "Jubilees" off of Woodhouse Street all afternoon selling pink ice cream ! Hi, I was brought up in Woodhouse in the 40's and 50's and I remember him as 'Tony Brizzolari'. Ian

[arry_awk]

OY!Who snipped me bits off????Harm can come to a young lad(?) like that!I well remember Tinglearies. I seem to tie Tomasso's IC cartin with them? Perhaps 'tinglearying' was old Tommy'swinter occupation! Don't remember buying it from a streetvendor (icecream) when it was cold and windy outside.He used to let us twiddle the handle on the piano. We could never get the tune in Sync! His tingleary must have been an import fro London cos the onlytunes I can recall are ,'Knocked 'em darn tho old Kent Roadand 'Any Old Iron'?Anyway,back to Mr Softee and such slop!Arry

[arry_awk]

PS! Why couldn't they use the Tingleary inLeeds then? (Wrong Voltage?!!!!!).(Shurrup)You'da thought they'd have a spare handle somewhere!Arry

[carrotol]

Anyone remember taking a bowl out to be filled with ice cream? And do other people have a seller now who plays a bloody barnyard tune when he comes round?

[arry_awk]

Hiya Carrotol!If you have another 'skeggy' at my Tomasso ramblingsa bit further back, you'll see that, as well as cups and bowls,I used to take my dad's old army pint pot out to be filled!Tommy charged the same whatever container youoffered, He did get nasty when somebody took a slop bucketout!Arry

[raveydavey]

In Seacroft we used to have Rossi and Carls Ices, along with Sues Ices which was a little Fiat van.I was surprised that last time we went to Roundhay Park, the ice cream van in the lakeside car park was a brand new Mercedes Sprinter. Whatever happened to the rule that it had to be a knackered old van? No sense of tradition nowadays!Has anyone else noticed that ice cream vans also seem to operate year round now? We've got one round here that plays the Benny Hill theme and he's around every weekend (possibly during the week too, but I'm at work)

[Trojan]

I know it's a bit of a diversion, but in the hot summer of 1983, we took our kids for a picinic to Bolton Abbey. I bought them ice lollies, they were circular, thick at the bottom and tapered to cone shaped top - their name is the important bit - Chilly Willies!