Entrance to the ice house, National Botanic Garden of Wales
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Entrance to the ice house, National Botanic Garden of Wales
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 8 Jul 2012
Inside the 200 year old former ice house is a fenced off area, extending below ground level, where ice was kept in the days before electric fridges and freezers. The ice was mostly used to keep food fresh for the wealthy landowner of the estate on which the National Botanic Garden of Wales is located. Some ice was collected from nearby frozen lakes in winter, but this was an unreliable source in mild winters. Most of the ice came via merchants from the reliable source of Scandinavian glaciers. At the top of the hill, on the left, is part of a large willow boar. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3038472
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