"Jason" wrote in message news:umhjg.370878

Jason, you've had me searching the house for a favourite book - Elizabeth
David's Harvest of the Cold Months (Penguin 1996).

This is a scholarly but readable account of the history of ice making and
storage over the world, including India, Persia, the Levant and other hot
and dry places. If you can get a copy (Amazon have some used ones) it
won't solve your immediate problem but would be worth reading, it might
give you some ideas :-)

I suspect with changing climate (and bigger extremes in the South East)
that idea may be something that could be rejuvanated. Imagine every new
home being built with an ice-house :-)

Bliss! But it's not just about ice houses :-)

Mary

-- JJ