Do Whitewells still do ice-cream?

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This old sign made me wonder if they still exist.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Hmm I remember something round the back of Clayton Con. Was that Whitewell daries? Do we have any local daries now or have they all bitten the dust? There was one on Park Street on the site where Netto and a couple of empty shops and a pound shop now reside, and the one at West End Ossy which I believe is now a bus depot?

[lettie]

Daisy Dairy at Ossy West End is now the housing estate Aspden Fold. I think there's some sort of vehicle depot round the back. When you drive past you sometimes see a sign for car valeting.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I thought the houses were on land next to the old dairy. I didn't realise it had covered all that area. I just recalled I'd seen buses going up that road where the dairy wagons used to go.

[lettie]

The housing estate is built on what used to be the front of Daisy Dairy. One of my mates lived across the road when I was a teenager. We used to play on a rope swing in the field behind Daisy Dairy.........and managed to get in a lot of bother with her parents because we always came back to her house so filthy... Ooops!!!

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Would any-one be interested in answering the original question, namely Do Whitewells still do ice-cream?

[WillowTheWhisp]

I don't know. I'm not even sure they still exist.

[JEFF]

I am sure that Whitewell Dairies were on Park Street, Accrington at the bottom of Oswald Street, they did milk, ice cream, etc. They were taken over by Associated Dairies (Asda). They expanded and bought the mill on Park Street, (Park Shed) where Netto, Poundstretcher, etc. are now.

[Ifty]

I think the answer your looking for is 'no'

[Alan Gilmartin]

The buildings behind Clayton Con, was Pooles pop works. They made all kinds of drinks including ginger beer in the old stone flagons, ( made good hot water bottles, ). I think the family lived in Sparth House. I remember the son Colin Poole, he was a bit of a character. I think he had a club foot. I can remember buying ice cream at the shop-cafe, at Cock Bridge, I think that was Whitewells. Can't recall where it was made.

[JohnW]

Didn't Whitewell Daries have a location on the right hand side (going uphill) near the bottom of Stanley Street?

[JEFF]

That is the area I am trying to describe to you, Park Street, Oswald Street, Stanley Street. They were then taken over by Associated Dairies.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I can still remember a sign about ice cream at the back of Clayton Con and hearing the whirry wuzzing of refridgeration type equipment. Maybe they just sold the stuff.

[Alan Gilmartin]

I think you may be right WTW, on thinking back I seem to remember another buisness next to Pooles, with refridgeration. It could have been a depot for Whitewells. Did you live in Clayton?. Also Dr lovelace's soap works was across the road from the Con club, I remember the big iron gates. I suppose thats all gone now. The two pubs nearby were the Albion and the Commercial.

[WillowTheWhisp]

No I never lived there but I used to work there. Don't remember any soap factory. Perhaps it had already gone, but the pubs were still there.