Icecream..............I could do with one right now. We are sweltering in the UK at the moment. People think B and I should be used to this sort of heat and maybe for the first couple of years after coming to the UK we would have been but after 20 years we have acclimatised to the UK climate and feel it as much as others here.
My first pictures were taken when some South African friends were staying with us and we were in the Lake District when we came across an icecream van and bought a cone each. Lynette was proudly holding her cone aloft for this photograph when the inevitable happened.........
whoops............
We often stayed in a farm cottage in Lowick, near Bambergh, Northumberland and wandered around the lovely old farm and were fascinated by this old icecream van in one of their open sheds. We found out that one of the Forte Brothers was a friend of the present owner's father and asked if he could keep this van here and he then would take parts from it to keep other vans going. Poor van, it looks so unloved.
Then one day, whilst parked up above Scrimiston Beach near Berwick-on-Tweed an icecream van arrived and parked nearby. I just had to have one and to take a photographs. It wasn't till we got home that I realised that it was also a Forte Bros van.
This made me curious about the history of this company. I found the details below on the internet.
I've just found a picture of our favourite icecream that is sadly no longer available. We could not get them in Rhodesia or South Africa so it was always a treat to have them here. We were so sad to find they had been discontinued.
That's it for this week. Keep cool and ping free. Now to see what others have posted.
There has been plenty of ice cream eaten here this week … it has been sooooooooo hot 🥵
ReplyDeleteYes, sooo hot here too. Thankfully it is raining now. Garden and countryside needs here but sorry some people are getting floods.😀.
DeleteWhat a sad old ice cream machine! I only thought the other day I've not heard the mobile ice cream van and its music since 2019... another casualty of the pandemic. I have seen the Yorkshire ice cream vans here and there but not the other sort. I am well aware that it can be nigh impossible to eat an ice cream cone when it is hot! x
ReplyDeleteDid you know G used to tell our grandsons that the icecream van man only rang his bell when he had run out of icecream!!! x
DeleteI remember having a cone in Whitby and a flipping great seagull nabbed the lot … it swooped from behind and I was just literally left with an empty cornet 🙈🙈🙈
ReplyDeleteSeagulls are scary birds. That evil beady eye and so big!! Wonder if he had had chips first and then wanted an icecream to finish off lunch!!
DeleteGreat post about the company & accompanying photos of the vans. We also had ice cream vans when children, ringing their bells with hordes of kids waiting on the street to get them. We also had those wafer types too, but alas not longer available. Thanks, take care& hugs.
ReplyDeleteDid you know G used to tell our grandsons that the icecream van man only rang his bell when he had run out of icecream. !!! x
DeleteOh no, it looks like she lost the cone? Save the ice cream!
ReplyDeleteThat is a sad old van, but just think of all the children (and adults) it made happy! I love how they are still using the same recipe, I bet it's delicious.
Thanks for sharing, now I'm ready for a treat!