East & West Molesey

A Dictionary of Local History

Rowland G. M. Baker, 1972

 
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Before the introduction of refrigerators ice for the big country houses was collected from frozen ponds in the winter and stored in underground pits. An ice-house built in the eighteenth century for East Molesey Park still survives in the garden of a house in Beauchamp Road. Originally in the middle of the Park, it was a brick lined well under a brick dome heaped over with earth for insulation. The well has since been filled in but the superstructure survives.


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