When it
snows on the moors and the wolds, it really snows. Over the years and
within living memory, the snow has been many feet deep. The photos below
were taken on the Pickering to Whitby road in February 1933 and on the
wolds which are to the south of Malton. As you can see, the snow is one
shovel and a half deep on the flat road. I have known the snow to be seven
feet deep in the biggest drifts on both the moors and the wolds. I remember
a Mini Car being buried near Burythorpe and standing on the roof of my
car and not being able to see over a drift just outside Langton which
is on the wolds three miles from Malton. |
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Near
Lockton 1947 |
Near
Newton 1947 |
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Somewhere
on the moors |
Near Stape
1047 |
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| 5ft deep on the Moors |
Farm near Lockton |
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| A team of diggers north of Pickering |
This Mini is near Burythorpe on the Wolds |
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| It was abandoned at a junction |
and had to be dug out by hand to save it |
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Cottage
at Wharram-le-Street |
To
the east of Langton |
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Farm
to the east of Langton |
Same
as above |
Thank's to George Woodhead for the use of some of these pictures
