Whilst on the theme of times when people didn’t have cars to travel everywhere in the 1970s, there were vans and lorries coming round to your street selling and delivering all manner of things. There were the usual milk lorries and ice cream vans, but we also had the fish van from Gourdon, Cargill’s butcher’s van from Arbroath, the van from Nicholl’s bakery and the lemonade lorry from Bon Accord in Aberdeen. You put the empty lemonade bottles on the doorstep from the week before and the lemonade laddies would take away the empties and bring back full bottles. The bottles of lemonade each carried a “deposit” which meant when you returned the bottles you got money.
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