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Mister Bacon (The Fizzy Pop Soft Drink Lorry) Where Did You Go

I remember as a child collecting pennies and empties from everywhere I could. I did this fastidiously, every day whilst I was out adventuring (I was lucky enought to have a massive range as a child, about 20 square miles+). I would wash peoples cars, clean their windows, I would even walk 3 miles to the next village to collect my Mum's freind's 3 empties. Why you may ask, why go though all of this aggro every day as a child.

Mister Bacon

That lorry would pull up outside my house and I'd be out there like a rocket (my Mum's rule was simple, you want fizzy drinks and chocolate, you buy it!). I'd have empties and cash, not a lot mind but some. The empties where worth 10p on a new bottle (Eco Freindly or what??? Not like those shitty 1l plastic bottles), a new bottle only cost 20p. Dandilion and Burdock, Orange, Cherry, Strawberry all with a flavour so rich and sweet compared to todays low fat, low calorie, improved flavour gruel. Normally I would have 3 to 5 bottles and 20 or 30 pence, that allowed me 3 or 4 bottles. 3 for me and one for my little brother.

Each week Mister Bacon would arrive and I would religiously visit cashing in all I had and then, one day, the lorry stopped comming, the empty bottles littered around the village dissapeared, labels batter by wind and rain. And now, with all the databases and modern resources in the world, I can't find sight nor sound of Mister Bacon anywhere :(

I wanted to build a shrine to Mister Bacon on this very page but alas eveidence that he even exsisted is very VERY hard to come by.

If you have child hood memories of Mister Bacon visiting your street please share them with me and I'll publish them here. The lorrys have gone, the bottles have gone, fizzy drinks now all taste the same but, as many people have said in the past, Mister Bacon lives on in the memory of myself, my younger brother and no doubt, many of you.

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:16:13 +0100 Ben in Kent though we needed to know:
My wife and I were sitting here this evening watching a commercial for the 'new' soda-stream. We started talking about the 'old' days and remembered Mr.Bacon too.
We're 38 years old, and grew up in North Kent (swale) and have many fond memories of the exotic, sickly sweet, delicious beverages :-) You're not alone !!

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On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:38:52 +0100 Martin though we needed to know:
I really remember this too! I grew up in Canterbury and remember being so excited on Saturday mornings when the lorry came down the road! I think the picture on the front was of Mr Bacon himself drinking cherryade out of a cocktail glass!

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On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:05:41 +0100 Hairy-Cheese though we needed to know:
I love it, build a Mr Bacon shrine and link it thru facebook. Build it and they will come! I have fond memories of the summer holidays living in Rochester, Kent when the Mr Bacon lorry would pull up, we'd give him the empties and buy the new fizzy drinks! Awesome! I'm forty now and even remember the odd bottle exploding in those hot summer days! A broken bottle would make you cry as it was a waste! (10p for a corona or Mr Bacon bottle was alot of cash back then).
I had this discussion many moons ago saying we'd have less litter if we made people pay an extra 10p for a product which they got back when they recycled. When I lived in Holland I used to return my empty plastic bottles in the supermarket and get a cash back receipt to use at the check-out! And if people are too lazy, kids and tramps will clean up the little! Hell, put it on crisp packets too, make it law to have money back litter!

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:16:47 +0100 Jon Mills though we needed to know:
I think Mr Bacon is a myth...

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On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:25:44 +0000 Darren though we needed to know:
it was found in lydden (near dover) by user unfairytale on kent history forums. there was a thread on the forum about bing red lemondade which took a side track to mr bacon. ive lived in the medway towns all of my life and had never heard of bing before! another regional thing perhaps.

back on the topic of mr bacon, about 2 months ago myself and family were racking our brains trying to remember the name of the fizzy pop vendor that drove round our streets with lorry full of wonder !! bacon? Dr bacon? Mr bacon ?? thats it! anyway i found this little blog with some random googling last week.

i'm in sittingbourne and vividly remember the truck, so do family. i'm thinking cola, cherryade, orangeade, limeade, cream soda, lemonade. i seem to remember stout 1 litre glass bottles that r-whites continued to use into the 1990s. a friend at work remembers mr bacon and he grew up in minster (isle of sheppey)

i've asked around and 2 people said the truck(s), atleast for us, emerged from united dairies site along with milk floats and other services. the site just about still exists in sittingbourne, its just had a BP garage built on the front, next to milton pipes on mill way.

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:15:31 +0000 though we needed to know:
Started 1959

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:17:50 +0000 though we needed to know:
Two brothers and their father started this company. Best wishes to all my old staff.
Harry Bacon

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:46:10 +0000 though we needed to know:
Started November 1959
Door-to-door delivery
New premises built in 1963
At one time employed 70 staff
Extra depot opened in Sandwich 1980
Nothing to do with any dairies
Had twenty lorries on the road

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On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:26:13 +0100 darren though we needed to know:
quite right, mr bacon were OPPOSITE united dairies in sittingbourne, my mistake, it was on the yard now occupied by stmichaels car sales, opposite the new BP garage. apparantly it was corona that were linked to dairies.

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On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:27:07 +0100 dazscottuk@googlemail.com though we needed to know:
My dad use to drive for these i rembember going out with him as a young lad on saturday mornings!! from the Depot in Sandwich....

Brillant company.. Great pop!!

Cheers Darren..

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On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:47:27 +0100 Manlove though we needed to know:
4 bottles were 1 pound
I remember it well

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:43:48 +0100 though we needed to know:
My uncle owned Bacon Soft Drinks, my dad worked for them for years, taking me out on the lorries when I was a child. Best memory ever? Standing on the back of the lorry as it trundled down the streets during the summer holidays, free bottles of fizzy drinks and playing in the yard. They changed their name to Cherry Transport for a short while, down sizing to smaller vans. I loved every minute of it, wished I had kept one of the empties now, that label will stay with me forever.
Times may change, but memories will always stay.
Peace.

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:02:26 +0000 steve though we needed to know:
Mr Bacons was on the site of the new BP garage. I seem to remember a company called Taylor Maid or Made was on the site before. They used to store empty crates on waste ground outside and asd kids we would play amongst them. My mate was a lorry drivers mate with bacons and I went along one day, bloody hard work it was too. As soon as we pulled up in a street loads of little fat kids would come running out. Probably too much pop !

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Mister Bacon (The Fizzy Pop Soft Drink Lorry) Where Did You Go

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