SUNSPAN AND COKE ADS - 60'S & 70'S

Here's me thinking Sunspan was an "Orange only" drink, but there's the evidence on the ad from 1970, that it was also available in Lemon and Cola. Sunspan Cola??!!!

All those fizzy bubbles must have given me the bends and affected my memory!

G & P Barrie were located at 191 Albert Street.

The last of the soft drinks ads is dated 1968 and is for the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant at 181 Clepington Road. This place had a window where passers-by could see inside the factory and watch all the bottles snaking around on the conveyor belts being filled.

The plant was closed down in April 1983.

All together now...

"I'd like to teach the world to sing,

in perfect harmony,

I'd like to buy the world a Coke,

and make redundancies!"

DEXTORA AND POLA-COLA ADS - 60'S

I must admit, I don't remember Dextora. Then again, I'd only be a wee nipper when it was on the go - this advert dating from 1963.

It seems like it was competing with Lucozade, as a health drink. Being orange flavoured though, means it would taste nicer than it's more well known rival!

Pola-Cola I do remember. Just as Peter Kay jokes about Rola Cola, us kids sussed it was quite a substandard alternative to the real thing! I'm sure this is the one which had a kind of flowery taste, and went flat dead quick.

Anyway, the Pola-Cola ad is dated 1968.

Both were made by Robertson Fruit Products who were based at 12 Corso Street. Later in the 70's they were taken over by Strathmore Springs.