Snow In London Looks A Little More Serious In These Historic Images

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  Freezing Thames
  
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  A view of Tower Bridge on the River Thames in London, when the river actually froze over in December of 1895.
  
  
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  Snowly does it
  
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  A busy street scene in Knighstbridge in the 1890s.
  
  
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  Snow balls
  
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  Guards play football in the snow at the Tower of London in 1910.
  
  
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  Snowball fight!
  
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  Uniformed men enjoying a snowball fight in London in January 1917.
  
  
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  Snow, ski & smoke
  
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  The Misses Debenham stopping for a smoke before going skiing in Hyde Parkin 1926.
  
  
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  Slush puppies
  
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  A tramway point man clearing slush from the points on the Embankment, c.1927.
  
  
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  Sister sledge
  
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  The businessman Sir Samuel Instone, pulls his daughter on her sledge through Regent’s Park in the snow, 1929.
  
  
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  Snow dome
  
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  St Paul’s Cathedral rising above the snow covered roofs of the city of London, c.1930.
  
  
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  Snow joke
  
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  It’s slow going for snow-bound traffic in London’s Oxford Street in March 1931.
  
  
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  Snow dome II
  
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  London deep in winter snow as seen from St Pauls Cathedral in 1933.
  
  
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  The cold arm of the law.
  
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  A lone policeman walks along the snow covered Embankment in London in February 1933.
  
  
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  Barely recognisable
  
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  A group of swimmers having a snowball fight in swimming costumes at Kenwood in London, c1935.
  
  
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  Hampstead heap
  
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  Two men sitting ride a toboggan in the Hampstead Heath Park in January 1935.
  
  
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  Snow square
  
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  The statue of Lord Beaconsfield in front of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, Parliament Square, on Christmas Eve 1938.
  
  
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  Snow-go area
  
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  Children enjoy a snowball fight in Trafalgar Square in 1938.
  
  
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  Slushy Strand
  
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  People walking down the Strand in London during a snow fall in February 1938.
  
  
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  Snow sports
  
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  A heavy fall of snow attracted winter sports lovers to Hampstead Heath on Boxing Day, 1938.
  
  
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  Snow and steady
  
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  Two cyclists take a tumble on a snowy road in London in 1938.
  
  
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  White out
  
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  A lone pedestrian walking through the snowfall in a London park in 1939.
  
  
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  Spring snow
  
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  A photograph of a snowstorm on Oxford Street in February, 1941. An atmospheric and almost deserted scene during a bitterly cold winter. The spring of 1941 was the second coldest of the century.
  
  
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  Snow shovelling
  
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  Women labourers employed by Kensington Borough Council, clearing away snow in Kensington streets in 1942.
  
  
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  Pride in his work
  
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  A policeman looks at one of the lions of Nelson’s Column covered in a layer of snow, after a heavy snowfall in London in 1947.
  
  
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  Snow-go zone
  
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  It looked rather like motoring chaos in Trafalgar Square when heavy snow fell on the city in 1947.
  
  
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  A bridge not far
  
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  Cyclist David Joel as he took to the frozen river near Windsor Bridge in 1947. At Windsor the Thames was frozen from bank-to-bank for a considerable distance.
  
  
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  Saddle snow
  
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  A column of Household Cavalry crosses the snow-covered Horse Guards Parade to take up guard duties in 1947.
  
  
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  Monumental dump
  
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  Three children are enjoying a snowball fight in near The Victoria Monument in central London in 1957.
  
  
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  Skater boys (and girls)
  
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  In the shadow of Buckingham palace, skaters and sliders take to the ice of the frozen St. James’ Park lake in 1963.
  
  
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  Frozen in time
  
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  Figures on the fountain in Hyde Park are festooned with ice in the early hours of the morning in 1966.
  
  
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  Stamford snow
  
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  A snowman at Stamford Bridge after matches were cancelled following heavy snow across London during snow in 1969.
  
  
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  Snow strike
  
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  Rush-hour at London’s Cannon Street station and not a train in sight thanks to a rail strike and Arctic conditions caused by a blizzard throughout southern Britain in 1979.
  
  
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  The white stuff
  
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  A Londoner strolls past Tower Bridge and the cannons guarding the Tower of London in January 1979.
  
  
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  Snow city
  
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  A snow covered Palace of Westminster in 1991.
  
  
  
  
  
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Syl wrote:

Syl wrote:Same here this week......it did stick a couple of days ago, stayed till mid day, then it all melted again.

Actually, it's 2 or 3 years since we all managed to this.