Ices Collection

Corner Shop, Snack Bar, Foyles Library, Walton, Essex
The Corner Shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, which sold tobacco, confectionery and all things for an enjoyable day on the beach

The Beach, Morecambe, Lancashire - Note the Ice Cream stall in the foreground. Date: circa 1901

Cute Puppies: Ices

Weymoor Post Office and Hall's Newsagents Shop, Harborne, south-west Birmingham. Note the K3 telephone box/booth/kiosk (right) - the K3, introduced in 1929, again by Giles Gilbert Scott

Collecting ice at Serpentine, Hyde Park 1857
Scene in Hyde Park on the lake Serpentine, due to the cold weather labourers collected huge pieces of ice and transported them on small carts drawn by donkeys

London ice carts 1857
Long trains of ice-carts may be seen wending their way to the shops of purchasers to dispose of their freights. Ice-carts with good effect; labour

Victorian childrens Christmas party by Pauline Baynes
A Pauline Baynes illustration of a Victorian childrens Christmas party showing a typical Victorian drawing room with its homely clutter of bric-a-brac and elaborate decoration

Artificially Served Ices, in a range of shapes and colours. circa 1890

Ice cart in London 1850
Early morning delivery of ice on the back of horse and carts, candied in from chilling Wenham Lake, Norway and Sweden to London, for fishmongers

Mrs. A. B Marshalls showroom for moulds 1887
Mrs. A. B Marshalls school of cookery, showing an interior of a showroom at 32 Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London. With people seated at table taking notes form her book for recipes

Ice-making machine 1883
Latest novelty machine that freezed the crystals that made ice and ices, ice creams and ice puddings, ready moulded for the table in six minutes with ice and salt. Date: 1883

Who likes ices?
Boy and girl enjoy a helping of strawberry ice cream at the dance. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1910

Ice cream vendor at time of 1911 Coronation
Ice cream vendor in a London street at the time of the 1911 Coronation, with portraits of King George V and Queen Mary painted on his cart and customers gathered round. Date: 1911

Ornithological Humour at the Cinema
Two Usherettes discuss the finer merits of English Garden Birdwatching: " My Husbands a Bird Watcher - Guess what he was getting excited about last night - Blue Tits!" Date: circa 1950s

Ice cream stall
The first ice of the year. Woman in her ice-cream stall, Landskrona, 1953. Date: 1953

Decorating Cakes - Swedish Scouts
Sweden - Scouts and Guide decorating cakes. circa 1950s

Ice Cream Vendor, London
Children buy penny ices from an Italian ice cream vendor in London Date: 1896

Variety of Turkish vendors
(Left) Ice Cream Salesman - selling ices made from buffalo milk/cream. (Centre) Fish salesman in Beycos. (Right) Water seller with a superb decorated (with leaves) water holder from Gueos Tepe

Maid and Ice Cream
A maidservant prepares a tray of ices for a party of bright young things after their game of tennis

Various Desserts C1860
Open jelly, Yorkshire Pie, trifle with ices and jellies, Christmas pudding, jelly of two colours

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