Ice Blocks from Norway

For over fifty years, between around 1870 and 1914, there was a thriving trade that saw translucent block ice exported to Great Britain from the fjords and lakes of Norway. By 1899, the volume of ice landed in Britain had reached over half a million tons, with the port of London often accounting for...

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Main Author:	Freeman, Michael
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing) 2023
Subjects:	ice, Norway, Britain, ice trade, ice export, ice manufacturing thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNN Norway thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63674
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