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Longo & Co

Antonino Longo, who set up Longo's Ices in Huddersfield West Yorkshire in 1967. Italian ice cream maker Antonino Longo was one of Huddersfield’s most familiar faces. Mr Longo arrived in Yorkshire in 1954 to live with his sister in Wakefield and, after a period working down the pit, he bought a van and toured the locality selling the flavoursome Italian vanilla ice cream that would become a Huddersfield trademark.

Born in Alessandria Della Rocca in Sicily in 1929, Mr Longo began what would become a significant business with one van. After expanding to a handful he began manufacturing ice cream to his own recipe. “It was a very small operation but it built up over time,” Longo’s Ices would eventually operate a fleet of more than 30 vans.

All ice cream businesses have the recipe vaguely the same but it’s how you put it together when you make it "quoted Mr Longo". Longo’s vans are still selling to customers to date 2018 all around Huddersfield and even Huddersfield market where they have been situated now for more than 50 years.

ICICLES A new Ice cream parlor opened at Wakefield Road, Waterloo, Huddersfield in premises previously occupied by the Yorkshire Building Society. The society closed the branch in May. ICICLES, which serves a range of Ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes, crepes and waffles, has been launched by Antonino Longo's son Andrea Longo, owner of Honley-based ice cream equipment manufacturer Longo & Co.

LONGO & CO Manufacturing was established in 1985 by Andrea Longo to supply a wide range of sweetened frozen food processing Ice cream maker machines. Based in Magdale nrHonley Huddersfield with over 50 manufacturing.

History
Huddersfield ice-cream firm manager Mr Joe Longo

Scooping up a cornet for cash for children... Huddersfield ice-cream firm manager Mr Joe Longo and Mrs Rita Mackenzie add an extra significance to the trade's logo, Mind That Child, by handing over a £557 cheque to Veronica Simpson, of the Children's Society. Mr Longo, of Longo's Ices, of Dalton, and Mrs Mackenzie organised a charity ball, auction and raffle at the George Hotel. And by the end of the night the guests had dug deep into their pockets to raise £557 for the society. Said Mr Longo: I want to say a big 'thank you' to everyone who attended the ball and all those who donated prizes. 19th April 1988.