Brilliant pics show how Mancunians coped with the snow in years past
Plummeting temperatures and heavy snow fall can bring both fun and danger
With snow and plummeting temperatures affecting Greater Manchester over the past week, winter is undoubtedly here.
The wintry conditions have caused travel chaos with delays on motorways, schools closing, and even Manchester Airport shut its runways for a time due to snowfall.
As January plods on the possibility of more freezing temperatures remains, so leaving the comfort of a warm duvet will be difficult for some time yet.
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Yet, despite the recent cold snap, spare a thought for the poor Mancunians who have had to shovel themselves out from under several feet of snow from years past.
We have found some brilliant photos in the Mirrorpix and Manchester Libraries archives showing people in Greater Manchester coping with wintry conditions.
The images bring home the fun and danger heavy snow can bring to any region. Can you recognise any familiar faces?
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A Christmas shopper walks past a snowy Albert Memorial and the Christmas tree in Albert Square, Manchester. December 13, 1950
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General view of King Street in the snow in Central Manchester with pedestrians walking past the gas lamps on the cobbled street, Wednesday December 8, 1976
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For the last few weeks at the St Luke's Primary School, Manchester have been putting away threepence a week to go on a picnic with a difference, for this is a picnic in the snow. These kiddies never see proper snow because it soon gets dirty in the centre of the city, so the headmistress Miss Ethel Parkinson decided to organise this trip for them. January 17, 1959
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Children of St Luke's Primary School, enjoying the snow in January 1959
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Deansgate, central Manchester during the snow fall of December 1978
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A tractor is used as a snow plough to clear the pavement of snow as people queue for buses in Albert Square, Manchester. January 2, 1979
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A policeman makes his way through thick snow after a heavy blizzard in the Pennines. April 4, 1966
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After a night of terror in stranded car, a child is carried to safety by a police sergeant on Standedge Pass in the Pennines. Vehicles were stranded, unable to move following a heavy blizzard. April 3, 1966
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