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Ten years ago today I created the 165th post for Greenford 365. To mark the blog’s anniversary I will attempt to post a photo every day throughout 2022.

There was a time when the chimes of an ice cream van would attract a small crowd to buy 99s with a Flake, strawberry sauce and/or sprinkles. Less common now, when you can fill your freezer with bargain packs from the supermarket. These vans are so evocative of summer and childhood. A human rights activist told me she had taken a phone call from a Death Row inmate in the US who had grown up in the UK. As they spoke he could hear a van pass her home and he asked her to hold up the receiver so that he could listen to a reminder of happier times.

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14 Jun This entry was published on June 14, 2022 at 7:36 pm. It’s filed under Uncategorized and tagged childhood, dessert, Ealing, evocative, food, Greenford, local, London, London Borough of Ealing, pedestrian, postaday, summer, UK. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.