{"id":3184,"date":"2022-05-06T19:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samanthajohnson.co.uk\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2022-05-22T07:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T06:08:40","slug":"masons-minerals-the-plymouth-devon-uk-fizzy-drinks-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samanthajohnson.co.uk\/?p=3184","title":{"rendered":"Masons Minerals The Plymouth Devon UK Soft Drinks Company Mason’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Gone Plymouth Companies<\/strong><\/p>\n

I maybe showing my age and location…. But in the 70s and way before zero sugar! Existed in Cattedown Plymouth the Mason’s Minerals soft drinks company. Housed in a building just off Southside Street in Plymouth was a building that supplied Plymouth with returnable fizzy drinks from lemonade to Vimto!<\/p>\n

I remember returning those bottles for 10p \ud83d\ude42 Those were the days and it was recycling! I loved Vimto… although every kid in Plymouth seemed to be on a sugar high. A very dear family friend was the manager of this company and I remember him even giving us bags of sugar to help us out! \ud83d\ude21 Well they had forklifts full of it! And times were hard! Bless you for that!<\/p>\n

I did a Google search for for this and found nothing so have started it here now!<\/p>\n

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I am sure as many reading this may reminisce about changes to their towns and cities and every so often you just realise that like the poem\u00a0 There is no indispensable man.. (below). What can really be important in your childhood just disappears and the world moves on. After having a good turn out (as my mother used to put it) I found a rare program (booklet?) map and guide that came from a visit to Plymouth Zoo. That was replaced with a Skateboard Park in the late 70s (as the craze hit) then that was removed. I must get around to scanning that and uploading it. As whilst there are plenty of random family photos on Google images of Plymouth Zoo I dont think there are full catalogues page by page uploaded? I will have to check. But that I feel is an important social document that needs to be preserved. I do love looking at pictures of old Plymouth<\/a> though.<\/p>\n