York Icehouse

Visited 19 March 2006

This early 19th century ice house stored ice collected in winter and parceled it out in the summer.  This brick igloo contained a deep pit to keep the ice.  Too bad the Brits didn't invent this earlier so they would have never gotten used to lukewarm beer.

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