This retro photo gallery takes a look at Yorkshire’s long love affair with ice cream.
It shows some of the county’s many ice cream makers and popular sellers over the years, from the 90s, through the noughties, to the early 2010s.
People are also pictured enjoying ice creams around Yorkshire, from the beach to the high street, in these nostalgic pictures.
You’d be hard-pushed to find a part of the UK that doesn’t love ice cream, but it could be argued that Yorkshire’s obsession runs particularly deep due to the number of dairy farms dotted around God’s Own County.
These photos take you inside the factories, showing how ice cream is made.
It features family firms with hundreds of years of experience between them, maintaining generations-old traditions.
But it also showcases some of the region’s biggest innovators, seen experimenting with bold flavours, like beer-flavoured ice cream, and even setting a new world record.
Do these photos bring back any happy memories for you, and what is the best ice cream you’ve ever had?


8. Gala treat
Steph Brookhead serves an ice cream at Edlington Gala in 2007 | Johnston Press Photo: Chris Bull

9. Award-winning
Bill Balderson and Phil Rouph, of Balderson's Ice Cream Parlour, in Thornton-le-Dale, after winning an award for their ice cream in 2006 | Other

10. Joe's Ices
Joseph McNeil (17) and his grandfather, Geoff O'Neil (83), of Joe's Ices, Beighton, Sheffield, with the Best Yorkshire Dairy Products award and the Best Ice Cream in Show award at the Great Yorkshire Show in July 2010 | sheffield newspapers

11. Beer-flavoured ice cream
Sheffield Hallam University Food and Nutrition student at Kelham Island Brewery with her beer-flavoured ice cream in 2010 | Sheffield Newspapers

12. Ti Amo
Sarah Owen and Benjamin Kramer, who met online and run Ti Amo in Bawtry, pictured in 2010 | Johnston Press

