Comments on: Sarsaparilla & Mineral Water Sellers

By: ELAINE POMERANSKY

ELAINE POMERANSKY — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:50:43 +0000

My great grandfather had a soft drinks business in Stepney. One of his son’s ran a soft drinks company in Hackney under the name of Wellers, and the other, my grandfather had a soft drinks company in Bow called ‘Pomm’s Table waters’ London E3 based in Tredegar Terrace.

By: Tony Wickham

Tony Wickham — Tue, 12 May 2015 13:16:13 +0000

Memories! At the age of 11 to 14, that is 1956 to 1959 I worked Saturday’s at Moody’s, my job was to make the undiluted sarsaparilla inside the herbal shop which the stall stood in front of. I still remember the formula and I remember stirring in the sugar in cold water which seemed ages to dilute. I also remember the famous “Rathbone cough mixture” made to a secret formula by the past Moody. I now look at the old photos of Canning Town and the place comes alive for me again. I can still see my father coming home with his docker’s hook under his belt.

By: Elaine Pomeransky

Elaine Pomeransky — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 15:12:31 +0000

Message to Gary Arber, that was my late father Cyril Pomm.

By: Ron Pummell

Ron Pummell — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:26:01 +0000

I used to buy my sarsaparilla drink from a shop known a Ross Reamons located in Virginia Row at the junction with Austin Street, Bethnal Green. This shop was opposite the entrance to the Mildmay Mission Hospital. Incidentally who remembers having to sit through a short church service before receiving medical attention.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:37:54 +0000

Unbelievably there is still an old temperance cafe producing its own sarsaparilla and dandelion and burdock in Rawtenstall in Lancashire – a genuinely unique survival!

By: ROBERT GREEN

ROBERT GREEN — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:03:11 +0000

I can vaguely remember Moody’s at Canning Town, I also remember a little further down the road at the Abbey Arms was Baldwins who also sold sarsaparilla and still to this day have their main shop in Walworth Rd South London, my late father would often take me in there to buy me a glass of sarsaparilla, years ago it was very popular, I also can remember a number of street markets around the East End that had stall’s selling sarsaparilla in fact my own market, Sclater St (club row) use to have a stall very close to my pitch that sold cordial drinks including sarsaparilla and it was still there right up until the late 1960’s I remember being fascinated by that stall they would have a long line of bottles lined up in dispenser’s like optics in a pub in all kinds of exotic looking colour’s and in the winter they would sell the drinks hot, I remember “nagging” my dad to buy me a drink from that stall, I picked out the most garish colour cordial they had, it tasted absolutely “orrible”, but the colour was lovely ! ! I do miss the old day’s.

By: Gary Arber

Gary Arber — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:07:04 +0000

In the 1950’s I printed bottle labels for a man named Cyril Pomm who made a fizzy drink called “Pomzone” in a small factory in Tredegar Terrace, Bow, E.3.
Gary

By: Achim

Achim — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 10:02:42 +0000

Fine story — and actual they had a sence for effective advertising !

Love & Peace
ACHIM

*** JE SUIS CHARLIE ***

By: Bee (Tingey)

Bee (Tingey) — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:31:49 +0000

Wondered if Moody of Rathbone Street Market, Canning Town, were anything to do with Moody Pie and Eel shop in Chrisp Street, Poplar.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:30:58 +0000

Good photos and stories of times gone by! Valerie