SNOW 1947
All images below kindly contributed by NV Scarth
Edwin Hood remembers:
I worked on that gang, not quite 16 at the time so I was probably the youngest, as I remember it we didn't get very far and every morning when we went back most of it had filled in again during the night, that year we found small pockets of snow on the moors well into the summer.
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Taken from Villas at Stanghow, note the shale heap, kiln, headgear and chimneys in background.
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local men cutting out Swale's Bank, Stanghow
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Lingdale and the shale heap, taken from the cross roads at High Stanghow.
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Road from Stanghow to Kateridden was blocked
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Taken from Kateridden looking towards Stanghow
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The Black Smiths shop is now a new house at the cross roads of Little Moorsholm, Stanghow, and Seaton Road. The photo was taken 15th February 1963 during the bad winter that year, in the foreground is the Stanghow Chapel which is still there.
Photograph and information kindly contributed by Stuart McMillan.