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Posted: 20 Jun 2015

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Pritchards on the frozen Wye at Hereford c1915

Pritchards on the frozen Wye at Hereford c1915
I have worked out that this is Hereford from the bridge and the fact that they lived there!
From another album there is another date - Feb 1917 - written on the album page. You can see that here - www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/49993096

Smiley Derleth, have particularly liked this photo

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 Phil Sutters
Phil Sutters club
For the Vintage photos Snow theme. It is perhaps difficult to see the snow, but the white at the edge of the frozen River Wye is likely to be snow, I would think.
5 years ago.
 RicksPics
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I'm surprised to see a river in the UK frozen over enough to walk on. Does that still happen?
5 years ago.
Phil Sutters club has replied to RicksPics club
I am not aware of it happening recently in the south of the country, but it may well happen further north. The temperature in Braemar in Scotland yesterday was -17c. Back in Elizabethan times they had frost fairs on the River Thames in London, recalled in a series of slate panels under Southwark Bridge in central London. - www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/46411430
5 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
One of my favorite books as a kid was "Tom's Midnight Garden". Tom is staying at his aunt and uncle's house in the 1960s and goes back in time. In one of the last times he travels he's in England and it's so cold the rivers have frozen and he goes skating. He finds out later that there really was time in the Edwardian era that the rivers froze, but I don't remember from the book when it was. Judging by this - it was clearly 1915!
This could be a photo from the book with Tom in the foreground and Hattie (who keeps going older every time he goes back) behind him.
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.

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