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heib20.bsky.social
I can’t remember when temperatures remained so low but this has recently been a common sight in villages, towns & the countryside around here!😊❄️🥶
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Fen skaters head to Upware to make most of frozen fields
Fen skating takes place when a meadow floods and then freezes, resulting in very shallow ice.
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January 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
alanakeroyd.bsky.social
From our archives /5. Fen skating used to be huge in the Cambridgeshire fens. Here's the one-mile amateur race at Swavesey in 1893 between local man A.E. Tebbit from Milton and F. Hiam from Stratford. Tebbit won. Doc ref CA 695/Z29. #cambridgeshirearchives #randomdocument #fenskating #skating
Black and white photo of two men skating on the frozen river Ouse in 1893. The amateur race at Swaevsey. They are wearing no protective gear at all.
January 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM