10 years ago I wrote a blog post on Frost Fairs and given that we in the U.K. are in a little bit of a premature cold spell I thought I might re-visit the subject with the great Frost Fair of 1715. On the 24th November over 300 years ago, in the big freeze of… Continue reading The Frost Fair of 1715
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The London Frost Fairs of Times Past
Lots of us remember when generally it was a lot colder when we were little. The summers were also less wet too, at least in the U.K. but no-one in their right mind would think of London as being an Artic like city and yet for about 1,000 years in the winter it was exactly… Continue reading The London Frost Fairs of Times Past
Stephen Liddell 