Drifts Collection

Winter sunrise over isolated cottage with Barn Owl
The weak yellow light of the winter sun rising over a desolate snowy scene surrounding a solitary farmhouse. A landing barn owl has been added to the border framing the scene

A Rotary Snowplow at work - Kansas, USA
A Rotary Snowplow at work clearing heavy drifts - Kansas, USA Date: circa 1920s

Church by Moonlight Date: 1948

Chernivtsi - Ukraine - Ringplatz - Pardini Hohe
Chernivtsi - Ukraine - the entire eastern section of the Ringplatz (Piata Unirii, Central Square) known as Pardini H(Pardini height) until Second World War

Train snowed in, Wales in the winter of 1947
A train and locomotive brought to a standstill by snow drifts on the line between Merthyr and Abergavenny following the renewed blizzards of early March during one of the coldest recorded winters in

Snow blocked road in Kent, 1963
A snow plough bulldozes its way through deep snow on Westerham Hill in Kent on a road that had been impassable for days during the very cold conditions of the winter of 1963

Startling Stories - The Day of the Cloud by Ross Rocklynne. Two air crafts attack and puncture the moon causing it to release gases which drift towards the earth. Date: 1942

Two men in rowing boat, Coniston, identified as Wilson and Nelstrop the photographers friends, pretending to sleep as the boat drifts away. Date: circa 1907

Car in a snowdrift near Crediton, Devon
A car driving through the middle of a snowdrift near Crediton, Devon. The road has been cut through by a bulldozer. Date: 1963

Saint Pierre and Miquelon - After a heavy snowfall
Houses on Saint Pierre and Miquelon (a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near Canada) pictured after a heavy snowfall Date

Pakistan - NWFP - Murree, Holy Trinity Church, Mall Road
Pakistan - NWFP - Murree - Holy Trinity Church located at Mall Road (built in 1857) in Winter Date: circa 1910s

LFB firefighters and winter snows
The early winters of WW2 were snowy with numerous falls of 1-2 feet and occasional falls (such as 1940-41) in which snow depths of up to 16 feet (drifts) were recorded

LFB firefighters and winter snows, WW2
The early winters of WW2 were snowy with numerous falls of 1-2 feet and occasional falls (such as 1940-41) in which snow depths of up to 16 feet (drifts) were recorded

A Near Thing by William Heath Robinson
Humorous illustration showing two cars laden with trunks and Christmas parcels stuck in the snow while their two drivers pucker up for a kiss underneath some mistletoe

Winter sunrise over isolated cottage
The weak yellow light of the winter sun rising over a desolate snowy scene surrounding a solitary farmhouse. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

New design for train snow plough
A new design for a railway snow plough - the unit on a non snow-bound track showing the interior workings

To The Rescue by William Heath Robinson
Sequential cartoon by William Heath Robinson with the first picture showing a policeman directing a large army of helpers towards a top hat and gloves lying forlornly in the snow

Train Blocked by Snow
Train passengers discover they are stuck in the snow during the storm of Tuesday 18th January 1881

Cars stuck in snow at Pease Pottage, 1963
A long line of cars stranded at Pease Pottage Hill on the London to Brighton road in deep snow during the ferocious winter of 1963

Jets to clear snow drifts in Wales in 1947
Men engaged in fitting jet units to the rear of a wagon on a snow encrusted stretch of line near Brecon, an ingenious way of clearing the disabling snow drifts preventing trains carrying coal

RAF Binbrooke cut off during the winter of 1947
An aerial view of the airfield and aerodrome buildings at Binbrooke, Lincolnshire, as men came out from their huts to pick up the supplies which had been dropped by two Dakotas of Transport Command

Bredhurst isolated by snow in 1947
An aerial view showing squads of men cutting their way through drifts to the village of Bredhurst which, although only four miles from Chatham in Kent

Experiment with jets to clear away snow in Wales, 1947
Jet engines or gas turbines, acting like blow lamps, eat their way through the snow as a truck advances down the railway line in the hills of South Wales

The Big Freeze of 1947
An aerial view of Goxhill, near Barton-on-Humber which lay under a thick mantle of snow after the blizzards of January and February 1947, during one of Britains worst winters

Miser in a Boat
A German miser sails down a river in a boat filled with gold coins, little suspecting that a demon is crouched behind him as he drifts unwittingly to damnation

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