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?

33. Liquid nitrogen ice cream
Dr Geoff Archer, a research assistant at Leeds University's food sciences department, with his liquid nitrogen ice cream in 1997 | Sam Atkins Photo: Sam Atkins

34. Gala queen
Askern Gala Queen Rachel Hepworth, aged 16, has an ice-cream in July 2004 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd

35. Beacon Farm
Ice cream makers Zoe and Mike Shardlow with their children Chris, Lilly and Matthew, at Beacon Farm, near Whitby, in August 2004 | Yorkshire Post Newspapers

36. Looney Lime
Sisters Daiva and Ramuna Dautartaite with the new Fab Looney Lime at Richmond Ice Cream, Leeds, in March 2006 | Yorkshire Post Newspapers

