I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream | Nostalgia

By Debz Croker
Published 17th Sep 2021, 18:53 GMT

A hot day on steaming city pavements or beside the water on the beach at Southsea, there’s no better way of rounding it off than with an ice cream. Fancy a cornet?

A message from the editor, Mark Waldron.

Ice creams for less than a shilling. There was a time when a cornet cost 1d and a wafer 2d. This was Clarence Esplanade, Southsea before the Second World War.placeholder image
Ice creams for less than a shilling. There was a time when a cornet cost 1d and a wafer 2d. This was Clarence Esplanade, Southsea before the Second World War.

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