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The Liam Delap pop thread

alabamared said:
The first of the pop delivery companies was Corona but then Alpine came along with bigger bottles for similar price. But before that we did have some very local brands of pop which were basically put out of business by these national companies.
I remember Redgates who I think were based somewhere in the Meadows and ofcourse Apollo which had some great flavours, I remeber Redgates did a mixed fruit (Vimto style) with a weird name but it was wonderful.
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Ooh, Redgates!

Stop it! You've got me crying in my ( corporate) beer for Paradise Lost.
 
Colin Addison said:
I think Carter's used to be at Sawley and then moved somewhere near Kegworth. Of course that might not be true
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It could be as there is still (I think) a pop factory at Kegworth, just down the old A6 off the motorway junction.

I wonder what pop Liam Delap likes, might help decide if he's good enough for NFFC
 
Statto said:
I wonder what pop Liam Delap likes, might help decide if he's good enough for NFFC
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I heard he likes Panda Pop.
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My go to in 70s and 80s

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Top Deck was a range of low alcohol shandy drinks marketed to children in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1980s. The product was introduced by Idris & Co., who were later acquired by the Beecham Group. In 1986 the brand was sold, along with the more popular Tango and the UK franchises for Pepsi and 7-Up] to Britvic.

All three Top Deck flavours were sold in silver cans, with the initial can design based on Idris’s own Shandy product. Each flavour had a signature colour (seen as a boxout background on the first can design, later the text of that flavour).

The three flavours were:

Limeade & Lager (Green)
Lemonade Shandy (Yellow)
Lemonade & Cider (Orange)
The alcohol content was listed on the cans as less than 1.2%

Booze for the kids thems were the days
 
Quntib Hollox said:
I worked at the Sawley Carters in the summer of ‘89 I think it was while a student
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Student jobs... a thing of the past!
At 13, I got my first part-time job while at school.
I wasn't without a part-time or full-time job from then on.
Before starting that first p/t job I had to go for a pre-employment medical at Gedling House on Main Road (I wonder if it is still there?), where a robust matronly lady with ample bosom told me to strip to my under-pants. She then weighed me, measured my height, checked my teeth, eye-sight, and then without warming she suddenly thrust her hand down the front to my pants, grabbed my testicles and told me to cough.
If it hadn't been for a young girl, I think called Shirley, who in a wood near my Granny's house had done something rather gentler and more pleasant a couple of weeks earlier, I could have been mentally scarred for life by that matron.
so in the best chronological order I can remember, my part-time jobs while at school/college/Uni were:
1 At 13 until my 18th birthday - butcher's and grocer's delivery boy with the Co-op;
2 At 18 I said goodbye to the Digby Avenue Co-op, to become a part-time barman at the Phoenix, working for Ernie and Jean;
3 Rose budder and strawberry picker at Timmermans and Shelford strawberry farm;
4 Tester of electric kettle ejectors at a factory I think was called Wirehome;
5 Stand-in runner of petrol station on Westdale Lane;
6 Lathe, press, and milling machine operator at a place on Colwick Industrial estate (left after a couple of weeks with a still unbeaten failure rate of the products I was lathing, pressing and milling);
7 Shop assistant in Mr & Mrs Bridget’s Newsagents and post office on wollaton Avenue;
8 Cafeteria worker at the Greenwich Maritime Museum for a blissful summer, in 1977;
9 Messenger boy for the London-based oil company head office (same summer);
10 Packer at a large Exeter-based commercial laundry;

Most kids these days seem unable to get regular paid part-time work, instead the schools fit them up with unpaid "work experience" for a week or so.
They come out of school with no idea how the world of paid employment is, and I think they are done a disservice by this lack of money earning opportunity before being released from the education system.
 
Captain Sinister said:
Student jobs... a thing of the past!
At 13, I got my first part-time job while at school.
I wasn't without a part-time or full-time job from then on.
Before starting that first p/t job I had to go for a pre-employment medical at Gedling House on Main Road (I wonder if it is still there?), where a robust matronly lady with ample bosom told me to strip to my under-pants. She then weighed me, measured my height, checked my teeth, eye-sight, and then without warming she suddenly thrust her hand down the front to my pants, grabbed my testicles and told me to cough.
If it hadn't been for a young girl, I think called Shirley, who in a wood near my Granny's house had done something rather gentler and more pleasant a couple of weeks earlier, I could have been mentally scarred for life by that matron.
so in the best chronological order I can remember, my part-time jobs while at school/college/Uni were:
1 At 13 until my 18th birthday - butcher's and grocer's delivery boy with the Co-op;
2 At 18 I said goodbye to the Digby Avenue Co-op, to become a part-time barman at the Phoenix, working for Ernie and Jean;
3 Rose budder and strawberry picker at Timmermans and Shelford strawberry farm;
4 Tester of electric kettle ejectors at a factory I think was called Wirehome;
5 Stand-in runner of petrol station on Westdale Lane;
6 Lathe, press, and milling machine operator at a place on Colwick Industrial estate (left after a couple of weeks with a still unbeaten failure rate of the products I was lathing, pressing and milling);
7 Shop assistant in Mr & Mrs Bridget’s Newsagents and post office on wollaton Avenue;
8 Cafeteria worker at the Greenwich Maritime Museum for a blissful summer, in 1977;
9 Messenger boy for the London-based oil company head office (same summer);
10 Packer at a large Exeter-based commercial laundry;

Most kids these days seem unable to get regular paid part-time work, instead the schools fit them up with unpaid "work experience" for a week or so.
They come out of school with no idea how the world of paid employment is, and I think they are done a disservice by this lack of money earning opportunity before being released from the education system.
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I worked from 15 too.

15-18 stacking shelves at Food Giant in Bulwell

18-22: Cafe Bar at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester (quite a posh uni job).

22-24: Debenhams in Manchester (toy department)

24-25: The hardest I've ever worked was the year I did Teacher Training: probably putting in 60+ hours a week, unpaid- in fact, I had to bloody-well pay for the pleasure. Then working another 7 hours on Sundays in the Debenhams store-card department: which basically involved arguing with Mancs about credit limits (no you can't have any more) and 'missing payments' (no you didn't make last month's payment).

Even then there was a huge difference between those of us that had to work our way thru' 6th-form college and Uni and those that had breezed their way through. Mostly it was how kn@ckered we were....
 
Anyway back to pop: kids today also miss the genuine excitement we had when the Alpine van came round....

Mum: that's goin' t'have t'last ya all week

Me and bro': guzzled in two days.
 
Chairman Mo said:
Anyway back to pop: kids today also miss the genuine excitement we had when the Alpine van came round....

Mum: that's goin' t'have t'last ya all week

Me and bro': guzzled in two days.
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We never had fizzy pop in our house but me and my sister and cousins all used to get together at my grandparents house on a Friday and the Alpine man would deliver bottles of d&b, cherryade,orange are etc. simple pleasures but magnificent at the time.
 
Various part-time stuff for me too
Paperboy at 14 in Bulwell
Shelf stacking/warehouse work at Co-op in Bulwell
Cleaner at a bar/club in Nottm
Couple of summers warehouse/packing at Paul Smiths got through mates who worked there
Barman at various places while at Uni
Building labourer in Australia on working holiday
Lumberjack in Australia on same

My daughters are struggling to find any part-time work now
 
I'm glad that this thread has wandered aimlessly offside because to be frank that's really what Delap could offer to us. I'd like for us to not sign him.

Keeping on topic though taste sensation for me when visiting the family in Ireland, Cidona and Nash's red lemonade, beautiful!
 
Captain Sinister said:
Most kids these days seem unable to get regular paid part-time work, instead the schools fit them up with unpaid "work experience" for a week or so.
They come out of school with no idea how the world of paid employment is, and I think they are done a disservice by this lack of money earning opportunity before being released from the education system.
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It's because regular part time jobs for kids don't exist anymore Captain, nothing to do with what schools do or don't do.

Reality is most of the industries where kids would first enter the workplace like retail and hospitality are struggling. The old paper round doesn't exist as a concept at all anymore.

Best option nowdays for kids is your local co-op or tesco express but it's no surprise most kids are struggling if half a class of 30 are trying for the 1 or 2 jobs they can walk to.
 
Just remembered my first job when I was 16 was working at the primary school which was about 200m from my secondary school. They had a breakfast club and after school club there and there was at the time, presumably still is, a legal obligation for minimum two adults to be present and so I helped out there. Was easy to fit that in before/after school and extra brucy bonus like getting a level of security clearance that others won't yet have and being able to demonstrate an extra level of care given your working with kids rather than adults.

Wonder if that might be an option for anyone who's got kids on here struggling to get anything?
 
Captain Sinister said:
Student jobs... a thing of the past!
At 13, I got my first part-time job while at school.
I wasn't without a part-time or full-time job from then on.
Before starting that first p/t job I had to go for a pre-employment medical at Gedling House on Main Road (I wonder if it is still there?), where a robust matronly lady with ample bosom told me to strip to my under-pants. She then weighed me, measured my height, checked my teeth, eye-sight, and then without warming she suddenly thrust her hand down the front to my pants, grabbed my testicles and told me to cough.
If it hadn't been for a young girl, I think called Shirley, who in a wood near my Granny's house had done something rather gentler and more pleasant a couple of weeks earlier, I could have been mentally scarred for life by that matron.
so in the best chronological order I can remember, my part-time jobs while at school/college/Uni were:
1 At 13 until my 18th birthday - butcher's and grocer's delivery boy with the Co-op;
2 At 18 I said goodbye to the Digby Avenue Co-op, to become a part-time barman at the Phoenix, working for Ernie and Jean;
3 Rose budder and strawberry picker at Timmermans and Shelford strawberry farm;
4 Tester of electric kettle ejectors at a factory I think was called Wirehome;
5 Stand-in runner of petrol station on Westdale Lane;
6 Lathe, press, and milling machine operator at a place on Colwick Industrial estate (left after a couple of weeks with a still unbeaten failure rate of the products I was lathing, pressing and milling);
7 Shop assistant in Mr & Mrs Bridget’s Newsagents and post office on wollaton Avenue;
8 Cafeteria worker at the Greenwich Maritime Museum for a blissful summer, in 1977;
9 Messenger boy for the London-based oil company head office (same summer);
10 Packer at a large Exeter-based commercial laundry;

Most kids these days seem unable to get regular paid part-time work, instead the schools fit them up with unpaid "work experience" for a week or so.
They come out of school with no idea how the world of paid employment is, and I think they are done a disservice by this lack of money earning opportunity before being released from the education system.
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I started off as a paper boy in Bingham when I was at school, then also worked at Shelford but as a labourer, over a couple of summers, diving tractors and trailers and moving the irrigation pipes on the fields of spuds around the farm. Most of the strawberry (other fruits were available) pickers were women, many of whom were brought in from Cotgrave so probably miner's wives. I did the fruit picking for about a week and it was back-breaking work.

I stacked shelves in Tesco in Viccy Centre when I was at college and then when I got my first full time job it was as a silk-screen printer for a company called Jordan Design Associates (or something like that) in Bingham. After that I joined the RN.

As for fizzy pop, Corona lemonade was the bee's knees but I always remember D&B during the summer of '76. Absolute heaven.

Who is this Delap fella and what has he got to do with this fizzy drink thread?

ETA: I also worked at Saxondale Hospital when I was in my mid-teens. I now go there occasionally for a nice Italian meal.
 
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duncanmckenzie said:
It used to be virtually next door to the White Lion in Sawley and yes it did move to Keggorth
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I spent two university summers working there. It was utterly mind-numbing, just putting bottles onto a conveyor belt, but if you did a 12-hour shift the final four hours were double-time. Which as a student equalled ka-ching.
 
MaxiRobriguez said:
Just remembered my first job when I was 16 was working at the primary school which was about 200m from my secondary school. They had a breakfast club and after school club there and there was at the time, presumably still is, a legal obligation for minimum two adults to be present and so I helped out there. Was easy to fit that in before/after school and extra brucy bonus like getting a level of security clearance that others won't yet have and being able to demonstrate an extra level of care given your working with kids rather than adults.

Wonder if that might be an option for anyone who's got kids on here struggling to get anything?
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I doubt it - I now run my own care company and the old idea of someone to sit with the kids (or in my case old folks) for a bit doesn't work in an era where you'd need, probably an enhanced, DBS check to be allowed anywhere near kids for starters, because of insurance etc.

On top of that there's also passes, IDs and certification and training required that mean its easier to get an existing Teaching Assitant to stay on that get someone in on ad hoc/temp basis. Even if it's literally just watching them while they crayon and making sure they don't eat their own shoes (or more likely sit on their phones after school hours) you'd need something like a Level 2 Certificate in Childcare or Early Years Education and probably a level of First Aid training.
 
Captain Sinister said:
Student jobs... a thing of the past!
At 13, I got my first part-time job while at school.
I wasn't without a part-time or full-time job from then on.
Before starting that first p/t job I had to go for a pre-employment medical at Gedling House on Main Road (I wonder if it is still there?), where a robust matronly lady with ample bosom told me to strip to my under-pants. She then weighed me, measured my height, checked my teeth, eye-sight, and then without warming she suddenly thrust her hand down the front to my pants, grabbed my testicles and told me to cough.
If it hadn't been for a young girl, I think called Shirley, who in a wood near my Granny's house had done something rather gentler and more pleasant a couple of weeks earlier, I could have been mentally scarred for life by that matron.
so in the best chronological order I can remember, my part-time jobs while at school/college/Uni were:
1 At 13 until my 18th birthday - butcher's and grocer's delivery boy with the Co-op;
2 At 18 I said goodbye to the Digby Avenue Co-op, to become a part-time barman at the Phoenix, working for Ernie and Jean;
3 Rose budder and strawberry picker at Timmermans and Shelford strawberry farm;
4 Tester of electric kettle ejectors at a factory I think was called Wirehome;
5 Stand-in runner of petrol station on Westdale Lane;
6 Lathe, press, and milling machine operator at a place on Colwick Industrial estate (left after a couple of weeks with a still unbeaten failure rate of the products I was lathing, pressing and milling);
7 Shop assistant in Mr & Mrs Bridget’s Newsagents and post office on wollaton Avenue;
8 Cafeteria worker at the Greenwich Maritime Museum for a blissful summer, in 1977;
9 Messenger boy for the London-based oil company head office (same summer);
10 Packer at a large Exeter-based commercial laundry;

Most kids these days seem unable to get regular paid part-time work, instead the schools fit them up with unpaid "work experience" for a week or so.
They come out of school with no idea how the world of paid employment is, and I think they are done a disservice by this lack of money earning opportunity before being released from the education system.
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I'm surprised you weren't going up chimneys from the age of four and down put from age of six 😂
 
HBB said:
I doubt it - I now run my own care company and the old idea of someone to sit with the kids (or in my case old folks) for a bit doesn't work in an era where you'd need, probably an enhanced, DBS check to be allowed anywhere near kids for starters, because of insurance etc.

On top of that there's also passes, IDs and certification and training required that mean its easier to get an existing Teaching Assitant to stay on that get someone in on ad hoc/temp basis. Even if it's literally just watching them while they crayon and making sure they don't eat their own shoes (or more likely sit on their phones after school hours) you'd need something like a Level 2 Certificate in Childcare or Early Years Education and probably a level of First Aid training.
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Yeah fair enough. I was DBS checked all those years ago for the role but didn't need any formal qualifications.
 
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