This week I was out near Chatsworth for work, we are installing a new monitoring site at the Kinghurst Nature Reserve.

On the way back I went through Markdale, home of Chapman’s Ice Cream. Last fall they suffered a fire which destroyed their main production plant. Here’s what’s the Chapman’s plant looked like in July 2007 when we went to the Markdale Ice Cream Festival.

This is what’s left of it.

They are building a new plant in Markdale, currently they have a temporary mini-plant operating. So far we haven’t had any problems getting ice cream at our local Superstore. They had a good supply in their distribution centre before the fire to carry them through until they started the mini-plant.

This picture is from their website. Imagines rows and rows of ice cream.