E050 – Freak Weather, 1968.
Gill Lane – 1968
A freak hailstorm caused heavy local flooding, the cars seen here are submerged almost to their bonnets!
Blocks of ice are floating on the water.
E051 – Freak Weather, 1968.
Gill Lane – 1968
Back Church Street, off Gill Lane opposite what was Syd. Denison’s joiners, it was his car park now a garden.
The other houses are the backs of the properties in Henshaw Lane.
B929 – Freak Weather, 1968.
Newlands Avenue – 1968
July 1968: A freak storm brought a deluge of hail stones to the neighbourhood, as seen here. A weather phenomenon still remembered by many Yeadoner’s.
Donated by Doreen and Peter Waite.
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 08 October 2021.
Last updated: 29 January 2023 – All images updated.
