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Description: | February 1933. Snow on Scatcherd Hill, Queen Street, leading into Morley Bottoms during February 1933. Together with 1947 these two years are regarded as giving the heaviest snowfalls of the 20th century, with 1933 giving the longest continuous snowstorm and 1947 the longest for large amounts of snow on the ground at one time. In 1933 as seen here the tramlines still ran along Queen Street and the piles of snow on them stopped the trams from running. Some paths and the gutters have been cleared and when the melting came this allowed the water to run into Morley Bottoms where flooding built up. The Valley Stream which by this time had been culverted under Morley Bottoms could sometimes carry meltwater away by opening the man hole covers and shovelling the snow down them. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Scatcherd Hill snow | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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