Thursday, November 19, 2015

SNOW IN BRIGG ON NOVEMBER 19TH


The weathermen (sorry, people, as many are  ladies) are forecasting an icy blast over the next few days, with snow sweeping in on northerly winds from the Arctic.
History has a habit of repeating itself. Today being November 19,  we can inform you that it snowed in Brigg 34 years years ago exactly - on November 19, 1971.
We were playing football in a games lesson at Brigg Grammar School that Friday afternoon and conditions underfoot were not good. But we were made of stern stuff in those days and saw the game through.
It snowed overnight and the next morning. We took the train to watch York City v Grimsby Town in the FA Cup first round at snowy Bootham Crescent, where the Mariners lost 4-2. However, this meant they could "concentrate on the league" to finish the 1971/72 season as Division Four champions.

  • Sadly, we haven't any surviving family pictures taken on November 19, 1971 so we've had to make do with a scene  recorded a few years ago on December 2, showing a snow-hit Brigg Monument and the A18.

3 comments:

Ken Harrison said...

The Crimbo hit of '71 was Benny Hill 'Ernie - the fastest milkman in the West'....it was also the time of T Rex and the Slade.....about this time, didn't Rod Stewart have a hit with 'Maggie May'?
Anyway, I've said this b4....both openly and to the power-that-be, that we need a flagpole near the Monument.
On sombre occasions, such as the present Paris shootings, Brigg could express it's solidarity, affinity....empathy......by flying the tricolour....

The Independent Brigg Line Rail Group said...

Expect more bedlam on the Brigg Line this Saturday, The Network Rail Rail Head treatment train has still not been down to remove the sticky leafs, add to this snow and were in for an interesting Saturday rail services

Ken Harrison said...

We never has this problem with leaves on the line in my day!
In the winter of 63, trains were fitted with snow ploughs and just forced their way through......
Are we becoming a world of softies???!!!