Penistone in the Snow
Winter brings a special quality to photographs. Most of the top row pictures were taken on a bitterly cold day in February 2005. The panoramic view at the bottom was from the Christmas holidays in 2009 and top-right was from the big freeze of the 2009-2010 winter.
Top row are from the station and the (late-running) train. Three across view looks down on Sheffield road from a train, as it pases above the first arch of the viaduct. The first view, second row, is also from the train but looks towards a very bleak Wentworth Road and 'Poets Corner'. Next, a view up the almost impassible Wentworth Road close to the engineering works. The picture of a footbridge leading into the park comes from 2001 and was put in the Barnsley Chronicle website picture gallery. The last picture on the middle row is not snow but hoar frost on a bitterly cold December day in 2007.
The bottom row are all from a bleak February 2009 day during a bitter snap when easterly winds brought snow chaos to nearly all of the UK. A good many people took this day off when they were not able to travel to work and the Grammar school was closed. Of course 'when I was a lad' this was a fairly normal winter.
