Gullrow Steps, Puddleport PT4 2QE

Come and find the hatch

It is the blue shutter halfway down the steps, under the yellow awning, with a queue in front of it from about half eleven. Flump is the one waving.

Thursday to Sunday11am until the tubs run outCollection always free
OPEN
Put a tub by before you walk down

The hatch

Eight flavours on the board, chalked up at eleven

The scooping cabinet holds eight of the twelve, and which eight depends on what went out of the freezer at the weekend. If you have walked down for something in particular, ring first and we will put a cone-worth aside.

Address
Gullrow Steps, Puddleport PT4 2QE — halfway down, under the yellow awning
Open
Thursday to Sunday, 11am until the tubs run out, which in August is about four o’clock
Getting there
Eleven minutes from Puddleport station on foot. The steps are steps — there is a ramp from Nettlefold Road that brings you out beside the counter
Parking
Two hours free on Hallam Lane, then £1.40. Do not park on the slipway, the lifeboat crew will have your guts
Ringing us
01998 44 20 18, answered between eleven and five on opening days
A two-scoop cone with a wafer handed over at the Scoopadoodle hatch
Two scoops and a wafer, £4.60, handed over the counter

If the shutter is down

It means the tubs went. There is a chalkboard on the shutter saying what time we ran out and what is going in the churn on Thursday, which is the closest thing Puddleport has to a local paper.

Where the van parks this week

Same five stops every week since 2019. It turns up within about ten minutes of these times unless the Nettlefold Road is shut again.

  1. Mon

    Nettlefold Green, by the bandstand

    3.15pm to 5pm. School run stop, so the queue is children and it moves fast. Cones only, no tubs on the van on a Monday.

  2. Wed

    Hallam Lane car park

    11am to 2pm. Cones and 500ml tubs. This is the stop to collect a box from if the steps are a nuisance for you.

  3. Fri

    The slipway, bottom of Gullrow

    6pm until dark. Cones, tubs and the party tubs if somebody has ordered one. Bring a coat, it is the windiest spot in Puddleport.

  4. Sat

    The twelve-mile delivery ring

    8am to noon, doorsteps only — the van is full of cold boxes and is not serving. You get a text when it is two stops away.

  5. Sun

    Dunnock Farm gate, Nettlefold

    12.30pm to 4pm. Parked next to the cows whose cream is in the tub, which children find either wonderful or upsetting.

On the van this week

Four you can buy out of the hatch of a van

Van prices are the same as doorstep prices. Tub stock is what came out of the freezer on Thursday.

A scoop of Strawberry Cartwheel sorbet in a white bowl — in the freezer today£6.50

Strawberry Cartwheel

On the van at every stop. The only one that is never off the board.

Thirty-one tubs in the freezer

Order a tub
A metal scoop lifting Proper Vanilla Pod out of its tub — in the freezer today£6.00

Proper Vanilla Pod

What the Monday queue mostly asks for, with a flake if there are flakes.

Forty-two tubs in the freezer

Order a tub
A green scoop of Mint Chip Stampede above a chocolate scoop on a waffle cone — in the freezer today£6.50

Mint Chip Stampede

Goes on the Friday slipway run because it suits a cold evening.

Nineteen tubs in the freezer

Order a tub
A toffee-coloured scoop of Banoffee Bump beside two cones — only nine tubs left£7.00

Banoffee Bump

Nine left, and the Sunday farm gate usually finishes them.

Only nine tubs left

Order a tub

This is the whole of it

Three huts, a sea wall, a slipway and one van. Puddleport is not a big place and we are not a big ice cream company, which suits everybody.

Walk down, or let the van come to you

Either way it is the same ice cream and the same price. The van just saves you the steps.

Ask for a Saturday slot

Saturday deliveries are booked by Wednesday 6pm · £4.80, free over £40, twelve miles out of Puddleport