Ice harvesting was quite the thing in New England. Fredric Tudor, the "Boston Ice King" made quite the chunk of change shipping ice around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor
Always an exciting & educational time with you & Martin together! It's too bad that the old Manor is no longer..but mist be fun to search out it's last remaining bits?!?
Great video Richard. I know our countryside was once littered with old country houses until they started pulling so many down in about the 50's, it would be great to see more of these sites that were once great country estates.
There's a quite well preserved ice house at Pitshill. I went inside it some years ago when the house was empty, very dark and deep! There's also a shell house in the grounds, which was in a sad state, and a folly further up the hill.
It's a very nice building and grounds, I visited several times when the house was empty. There's also a stable block and, hidden in the woods, a private cemetery with the graves of several of the Mitford family. Such casual trespassing is out of the question these days as the house is currently occupied!
There's a big ice house at the Canal Museum in London. This was the storage house for a commercial ice distribution company. The ice will melt from the outside, so if you store it in a large enough quantity, the outside surface area will be small in relation to the volume, and it will last a very long time. Of course good insulation also helps!
hahahahaha omg nice one,don't know if you guys knew this but there was a beautiful old railway carriage there as the cricket pavilion in the 70`s,Until the local kids burnt it down
