The Twelve Week Frost, Sandford Weir, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1895. Artist: Henry Taunt

The Twelve Week Frost, Sandford Weir, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1895. Artist: Henry Taunt

1-232-619 - Reproduced by permission of Historic England/Heritage Images

The Twelve Week Frost, Sandford Weir, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1895. Two men standing on the gangway above the frozen weir. The winter of 1894/5 was known as the 'twelve week frost' and in February the whole of the Thames was blocked by ice flows, some 6 or 7 feet thick.


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  1. Henry Taunt, attributed to: British: Photographer

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  1. Photograph

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  1. Landscape

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  1. CC72/00977   
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