9 brrrr-illiant old pictures of York in bitter winters

Here are nine dramatic photographs, capturing York at its coldest, from the 1930s through to the long cold winter of 2010/11.

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1954 - Ice sheets flow down the Ouse and become wedged against Ouse Bridge. It was reported in the Evening Press that the river was expected to completely freeze over for the first time since 1947.

Snow-covered roofs, seen from York Minster in 1985

Workmen clear Davygate during the notorious winter of 1962/63

York City fans clear the Bootham Crescent pitch of snow, before the famous FA CUp victory over Arsenal in 1985

A tram battles through a blizzard in 1932/33

Haxby Pond in January 1979

Carr Junior School in Acomb, pictured from above in January 2010

The following year, and another biting winter - Constantine is pictured here in December 2010

The Lady Molly, frozen into her moorings in January 1987