Winter's Touch

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 78, 11 March 1931, Page 6

Winter's Touch

HEAVY SNOW IN BRITAIN A DISLOCATION~OF TRAFFIC LONDON, March 9. London experienced the heaviest snowfall of tho present white, to-day, which was the coldest of any day in March for several years. The streets were under snow from an early hour in the morning and by noon wore buried to at depth of some inches. Traffic was slowed down and traffic noises silenced. Many accidents were caused by vehicles .skidding and .some roads on the outskirts of London, including the two main roads to .Southend, were impassable. Traffic was held up owing to ice and snow in the Midlands and north of England, where in some places there were six-foot, drifts. Snow ploughs had to be used to clear the streets in certain east coast towns. There were remarkable scenes in London where the blizzard brought heavy horse-drawn traffic to a standstill. The snow was four or five inches deep and under the mantle of softness London for a briof space became a silent enchanted city imparting new beauty to the familiar architectural gems. Within an hour, more than 1000 men, mostly unemployed, attacked the city with brooms ami shovels. The ceaselss traffic then converted the snow into oceans of slush, of which there were copious streams on the pavements.