Hartley’s
Ice Cream is a long established business, first started in
the early 1930s. It was founded by a gentleman by the name
of Grayson Hartley who used to sell the Ice Cream from a motorbike
and sidecar.
His son, Billy Hartley, then took over the business
and ran it very successfully for over forty years from the
creamery shop at 24 Church Street Egremont, and mobile vans
in the local
area.
Norman & Hannah Caulfield, Billy Hartley’s Sister and Brother-in-law,
ran the business for a couple of years in the late 1970s and
were then joined in partnership
by Les Richardson in 1981.
Les Richardson then became sole proprietor in 1983,
Les had worked in the business as a schoolboy and had had strong ties with the
Hartley family from an early age.
Les’s son Mark joined the firm in 1991 and worked alongside his father until
Les Retired in 2003, Mark now runs the business supported by his wife Shirley,
in the same way it has been successfully run for over seventy years. |
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