Cliff Turner, 91, who grew up in Brigg during the 1930s and now lives in New Zealand, has replied to our post about Friday's Brigg Horse Fair 2016 when we mentioned (and pictured) a men selling ice cream from a box mounted on the front of his cycle. We suggested a Mr Pieroni might have done likewise in our town decades ago.
However, Cliff emails to say: "Carlo Pieroni did not have a cycle but pushed a brightly painted handcart around Brigg in my boyhood - until the war put a stop to making ice cream. He only worked in the summer months. He used to wait outside the Infants' School on Grammar School Road on school days and then move on to Glebe Road where school finished at 4.00 p.m.
"Carlo also pushed his barrow all round Brigg. He had a drawn out cry ‘Ice creeeeam'.
"Only one kind of ice cream could be had; in a halfpenny or penny cornet or a penny or twopenny wafer. He lived off Bigby Street, somewhere near the convent. I think he was the only ice cream seller in Brigg until the town got mains electricity."
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....all kept cool with blocks of dry ice, or solid carbon dioxide...freezes at a lower temperature than water...
.....add a drop of water to dry ice and one gets a swirling mass of mist...used on stage to create haunting foggy scenes, or by pop bands to create an effect....
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