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"You're Licked" - Police target shady softy sellers

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"You're Licked" - Police target shady softy sellers

11 August 2005

This 1964 police reports reveal how illegal ice cream sellers in Hyde Park were the subject of a crackdown. Highlighted for Archive Awareness Campaign, the file tells how "pirates" responded to the public's desire for soft scoop ice cream, eventually forcing the official park vendor to employ Mr Walls Whippy in order satisfy appetites.

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