Auntie Betty’s Scrapbook 3 - Local news items - Autumn & Winter 1938

 

Local news items - Autumn & Winter 1938

A collection of various articles, many showing the effects of the harsh winter of 1938/9 which made the civil war grind to a stop before and after the Christmas Truce.

 

 

Articles from the Wye & Severn Sentinel, early August 1938.

 

Article from the Wye & Severn Sentinel, 24th December 1938

 

Snowplough clearing a road near Ross

 

 

 

Despite the snow, spirits are high in the queue for rationed food in Ross just before Christmas.

 

 The above articles & photos are from the Wye & Severn Sentinel, 28th December 1938

Article from the Wye & Severn Sentinel, 1st January 1939

Editor’s notes: The weather information given in the newspaper cuttings is from the Meteorlogical Office's national monthly report for December 1938 which mentions Ross-on-Wye temperatures and the very rare sighting of the Aurora Borealis there.

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