The winter of 1946-47

[BrianR]

They may have already been mentioned,  but there are some regional weather history books. I've got both of The Lancashire Weather Book and Yorkshire equivalent.  Some nice historical photos of 6 feet snowdrifts and "ice bergs" on the Mersey. Photos speak a thousand words and can contradict "inaccurate" measurements from old instruments as some scientists proclaim

Edited September 11, 2021 by BrianR

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[johnholmes]

Gosh those cuttings bring back many small child memories of that winter. I kept a scrap book of all the local paper stories, Derbyshire Times and The Star (Sheffield) but my mother had a loft clear out without telling me decades later and they got thrown out!

Power cuts were almost routine and living by candlelight with no radio seemed quite exciting to me. We still had an oven by the coal fire so the cooking was done on that. As they say, those were the days-no thank you now.

Dad worked on the coke ovens but the supply of coal stopped and I went with him to collect wood from damaged pit props that miners and surface workers were able to take home. I clearly remember on one trip, 6 miles each way ,with a sledge he made, a double decker bus, behind a snow plough easily seeing over the top of it, the snow was so deep in parts.

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Photos of newspaper clippings that I have been collecting. These are the last week of January 1947 and first week of February 1947

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I decided to put the newspaper photos that I have collected all in a YouTube video they are that many, the video runs for 19 minutes..... lol 

 

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Going through the old newspaper archives, sometimes you stumble across a little gem.

Found this from a Staffordshire newspaper from 9th June 1948 that there was still snow from the winter 1946-47 in a Derbyshire cave

[Optimus Prime]

8 hours ago, Weather-history said:

Going through the old newspaper archives, sometimes you stumble across a little gem.

Found this from a Staffordshire newspaper from 9th June 1948 that there was still snow from the winter 1946-47 in a Derbyshire cave

Very interesting how the snow, to some extent, managed to survive so far in to the exceptionally warm period that followed .

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Channel 5 has a documentary on this winter on New Years Day at  9pm