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Marine Ices - Chalk Farm

I got a day off work to go to his funeral when Papa Marine Ices died in the 90s*. I worked at Criterion Ices (in Sydenham, for all you south london icecream fans) at the time and regularly served Timothy Spall, who has strangely handsome children, given his own face.

Both families had come over to London in the '20s. They split London, north and south between them to reduce competition.

Criterion moved out of London, leaving the original formica shop fittings behind. I had the sign for a few years and then lost it somehow, along with some of my teeth having worked there for too long.

They're in Suffolk now if anyone wants to ride out? http://www.criterion-ices.co.uk/flavours.html They seem to have stopped making Garlic and Honey which was my favourite.

• I think we wished his hearse would be an ice cream van.
  
  

Oh and they people in Hay on Wye who make sheeps milk ice cream...