Wenham Lake Ice Company

According to Michael Faraday, the water of Wenham Lake was so pure from salts and air bubbles that it could withstand higher temperature than regular ice without melting.

However, Lander was facing financial shortages and sold part of the company to George Wheatland and Judge Joshua H. Ward [2] At the end of the 1840s, the ice from Wenham Lake became a luxurious commodity in London.

[2] In large institutions for poor sick people, wrote Florence Nightingale (1859), Wenham Lake ice stopped the milk curdling in summer.

[3] By 1888 Mrs Beeton printed a cocktail recipe that used Lake Wenham ice; some Victorian households had iceboxes cooled with it.

[6] The Ice Company advertised its product as "suited for table use, for mixing with liquids, or placing in direct contact with provisions, jellies, etc.