Picture shows the aftermath of the canal breach (burst) – a tramway has been set up to convey fill to the hole in order to repair it.
Categories: Natural disaster
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The Great Snow of 1947
Looking from the Cheshire Hunt towards Orme Smithy. Note the sledging in the field in the background.
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Len Stubbs in the snow at Sowcar farm
Len Stubbs recalls the German POWs who dug out the snow on Ingersley Road and Blaze Hill. It took 3 days to dig out Blaze Hill then the snow blew back again in one night. the Germans camped in outbuildings at Sowcar Farm. A German officer in a long leather coat marched about supervising and had a brazier to warm his hands.
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Sowcar Farm in the snow.
John Stubbs, the farmer at Sowcar, has a bag around his shoulders for warmth. Photograph taken in the gateway of the farm.
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Snow below Orme’s Smithy
Looking down from Orme’s Smithy to the Masons’ Arms, later the Masonic Inn then the Poachers Inn. Ken Gratton born there in 1923.
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Blue Bell Lane Tytherington
January 1940 View from top of Blue Bell lane looking down towards Toll Bar Cottage
