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Wintry Weather at Gravesend, 1895. Creator: Lascelles.
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Wintry Weather at Gravesend, 1895. The River Thames at risk of freezing. 'The ships in ports around our coast have been mantled with the snow, as picturesquely shown in our Illustration, and all over the kingdom severe frost has set in..."It will be all the same a hundred years hence" is a reflection that gives one but small comfort in present calamity...the fact that it was all the same thing a hundred years ago has not much more of consolation in it. Still, there is some gleam of satisfaction in the thought that what we have been of late enduring in the way of frost was endured by our ancestors in 1789, without probably half our advantages in the way of mitigation...People had to put up with greater inconveniences in those days, but they were not so fastidious, and had not been accustomed to better things. They did not suffer from burst pipes nor dilatory plumbers, for they had none of either. The outward-bound vessels at Deptford and Gravesend had to clear out with all dispatch lest they should be caught in the ice and detained. But of late days they have been caught, which would seem to prove that the recent frost was more intense than its forerunner. The year 1796, however, seems to have beaten the record for frost in England'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.
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HRM26A07_328
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