Midland Montage: 31.10.1963: Here and There - Last Winter

Summary

Library pictures of winter conditions during the big freeze of early 1963.

Year:

1963

Duration:

0:01:40

Film type:

Black & White / Mute

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Steam locomotive pushing railway snow plough; clearing snow from football pitch with blower; snow at Elmdon airport; and snow being cleared from roads and railway lines in Shropshire.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

Pictures from Midlands News. The football pitch is likely to be St Andrews, the home of Birmingham City. The road may be the A408 in Shropshire and the railway line at the end the one between Shrewsbury and Welshpool. (Information from Midlands News file for a batch of big freeze stories which are missing).